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Social Image Safe Zone Checker

Drop in an image and see it with each platform's own interface drawn on top, so nothing important sits under a caption or a button.

Visual/Social Image Safe Zone Checker

Drop in an image and see it with each platform's own interface drawn on top, so nothing important sits under a caption or a button.

Drop an image, or click to choose

Never uploaded. It is read straight from your device.

Required size

1080 × 1920

The action buttons sit down the right edge and the caption runs along the bottom left. Keep faces and text out of both.

Preview with Instagram Reel interface

Your image appears here with the overlay on top

Top bar
Caption and audio
Like, comment, share

Red areas are where the platform draws its own interface. Nothing there is guaranteed to be visible, and exact positions shift a little between app versions and phone sizes, so leave margin rather than crowding the edge of a band.

About the social image safe zone checker

Every guide gives you the dimensions, and dimensions are the easy part. What actually ruins a post is that TikTok draws a caption across the bottom quarter and a column of buttons down the right edge, and your subject was sitting in exactly that space.

Upload your image and see it behind the real interface. The zones are the useful output here: not a number to look up, but a picture of what will be covered.

How to use it

  1. 1Pick the platform and format.
  2. 2Drop in your image.
  3. 3Look at the red bands, which is where the interface sits.
  4. 4Move your subject out of them, or switch to the whole image view to see what a crop removes.

Questions

Which format loses the most space?

TikTok. Its caption block and action column take a larger share of the frame than any other, and the bottom quarter is effectively unusable.

Are the zones exact?

They are close, and they shift slightly between app versions and phone sizes. Leave a margin rather than placing something right at the edge of a band.

Why does my image look soft?

It is narrower than the format needs, so it is being upscaled. The tool warns when that is the case. Always export at the full width.

Is my image uploaded?

No. It is read from your device and shown locally. It never reaches a server.

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