Play your 9:16 clip with the areas that TikTok, Reels and Shorts cover — top bars, side buttons, caption and sound — shaded, so text and faces never get hidden.
Drop a vertical video or a picture. Ideally it is 1080 × 1920 (9:16). If it is another shape the tool tells you.
Choose TikTok, Reels or Shorts, or All three to see the area that is safe everywhere. Labels show what covers each edge.
Scrub through the clip and watch where your text and faces sit. Download a frame with the guide or the guide as a transparent PNG to lay over your video in an editor.
See TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts margins separately, or the safest area for all three.
Scrub through the whole clip, not just a still, so a title that drifts into a button zone gets noticed.
Download a transparent 1080 × 1920 PNG and put it on top of your timeline in CapCut, Premiere or any editor.
The clip is played from your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Short-video apps draw their own interface over your video: a bar at the top, a column of buttons on the right and your caption, the account name and the sound at the bottom. Anything of yours that sits under them is partly or fully hidden.
On a 1080 × 1920 video, the usual advice is to keep important things about 150–250 pixels from the top, 380–480 pixels from the bottom, about 60 pixels from the left and 120–150 pixels from the right. The exact values differ between apps, phones and app versions, and the apps change them, so these are widely used guidelines and not official figures. When in doubt, stay well inside the green box.
If one video goes to TikTok, Reels and Shorts, use the combined view: it takes the biggest margin from each edge, so what fits inside is safe on all three.
Cover images and still posts follow the same layout, so you can drop in a picture to place a title before you render the video.
The apps show 9:16. A horizontal or square video appears with bars or cropped. The tool draws the guide on a 9:16 screen and warns you when your file is another shape.
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