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Ad safe zone checker
Free Ad Safe Zone Checker for TikTok, Reels, Stories & Shorts
Drop in a vertical ad and see which parts of it the platform's interface will sit on. The TikTok safe zone, the Instagram and Facebook safe zone for Reels and Stories, and YouTube's vertical-ad safe zone are drawn from each platform's own published margins, and your file never leaves your browser.
Official marginsTikTok · Meta · YouTube
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- Safe share of the frame
- 37.7%
- Your file
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TikTok In-Feed
Top 160 px (12.5%) · Bottom 440 px (34.4%) · Left 80 px (11.1%) · Right 80 px (11.1%); 200 px (27.8%) below y = 560
Standard In-Feed template, vertical, without an anchor. TikTok says the safe zone also depends on ad caption length and any extra formats (anchors have their own template), and that previews can differ slightly from the live ad on a given device.
Checked against the platform source on 2026-10-09.
Drop a 9:16 image or video frame to see what the interface would cover.
Red = keep text, logos and faces out. The overlay marks the margins each platform publishes; it does not draw the platform’s interface.
- Margins from TikTok, Meta and Google docs
- Images and video, checked locally
- Strictest combined zone for one master
- Pixel bounds for your exact file
Three deliberate steps
Pick where it will run
Choose TikTok In-Feed, Reels, Reels with a disclaimer, Stories or YouTube Shorts, or all four at once. Red is the area that platform asks you to keep clear; the green outline is what is left for text, logos and faces.
Move what sits in the red
Read the safe-area bounds in pixels for your file, nudge the headline, price or logo inside the outline, re-export and check again. When it is clean, take the creative into Soku to make the other sizes and launch it.
Where the numbers come from
Every overlay, its margins and its source
Each zone was read from the platform’s own documentation on 2026-10-09, not copied from a template site. TikTok publishes its zone only as a downloadable image, so its numbers were measured from that official file. Platforms revise these from time to time, so the source link sits next to every row.
| Placement | Top | Bottom | Left | Right | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok In-Feedon 720 × 1280 | 160 px (12.5%) | 440 px (34.4%) | 80 px (11.1%) | 80 px (11.1%); 200 px (27.8%) below y = 560 | TikTok Ads Manager: TikTok Auction In-Feed Ads (Safe Zone section, In-Feed Standard LTR file) |
| Instagram & Facebook Reelson 1080 × 1920 | 14% (≈269 px) | 35% (672 px) | 6% (≈65 px) | 6% (≈65 px) | Meta Ads Guide: Instagram Reels ad specsMeta Business Help Center: text overlays and the safe zone |
| Reels with a disclaimeron 1080 × 1920 | 14% (≈269 px) | 40% (768 px) | 6% (≈65 px) | 6% (≈65 px) | Meta Business Help Center: text overlays and the safe zone |
| Instagram & Facebook Storieson 1080 × 1920 | 14% (≈269 px) | 35% (672 px) | 6% (≈65 px) | 6% (≈65 px) | Meta Ads Guide: Instagram Stories ad specsMeta Business Help Center: text overlays and the safe zone |
| YouTube Shorts & vertical adson 1080 × 1920 | 288 px (15%) | 672 px (35%) | 48 px (4.4%) | 192 px (17.8%) | Google Ads Help: Safe zones for vertical video ads on YouTube |
Meta’s pages disagree
Meta’s safe-zone help article and its Instagram Reels and Stories specs give 14% top, 35% bottom and 6% sides. Its Facebook Stories video spec page still shows an older 14% top and 20% bottom. The checker uses the stricter figure.
TikTok’s zone moves
TikTok says the safe area depends on the ad’s dimensions, caption length and extra formats such as anchors, and that previews can differ slightly from the live ad. A long caption climbs higher than the standard template allows for, so keep captions short or leave extra room.
Taller phones crop
Meta notes that on screens taller than 9:16 it may zoom the ad to fill the screen, cropping outside the safe zone, or show it at 9:16 on a black background. Either way, content inside the zone survives — which is why the margins exist on the sides as well.
Why Soku
A clean frame is the start of the job, not the end
Checking one export against one placement takes a minute. Doing it for every size of every variant, every week, is where the time goes. That is the part Soku takes over.
Every placement from one master
Soku's AI ad resizer reframes an image or video ad for Reels, Stories, TikTok, feed and YouTube by recomposing around the subject rather than centre-cropping it away.
New variants without a new shoot
Soku Creatives generates image and video ads from a product URL or a few photos, so when the safe area squeezes your layout you can try a different composition instead of shrinking the text.
Launched where you buy media
Soku runs campaigns across Meta, Google and TikTok from one chat, with changes going live after you approve them, and A/B-tests creatives on live traffic.
Use cases
Who reaches for this, and when
Designers and editors
A last check before the file goes out
Price stickers, offer badges and end-card logos are the elements most often placed near the bottom edge — exactly where Reels and Shorts stack captions and the call-to-action. Ten seconds here saves a re-export after launch.
UGC and creator buyers
Catch burned-in captions under the action column
Creator videos usually arrive with captions already rendered. Scrub through the file on the TikTok overlay to find the lines that run into the right-hand column or the bottom caption area, and send precise fix notes with pixel positions.
Media buyers
One 9:16 master across TikTok, Meta and YouTube
If the same video is going to TikTok, Reels and Shorts, select “All four at once”. It shows the overlap of all their safe areas, so a layout that passes there passes on every one of them.
Questions before you run it
- What is the TikTok safe zone for in-feed ads?
- TikTok publishes its safe zone as downloadable template files rather than as numbers in text. Its standard In-Feed template, drawn on a 720 × 1280 frame, keeps 80 px clear on each side, 160 px at the top and 440 px at the bottom, plus a further 120 px column inside the right margin from 560 px down, where the action buttons sit. TikTok notes the zone also changes with caption length and with anchors, which have their own template — this checker draws the standard, no-anchor version.
- What is the Instagram safe zone for Reels and Stories?
- Meta asks you to leave roughly 14% of the top, 35% of the bottom and 6% of each side free of text, logos and key visuals on 9:16 Reels and Stories ads, on both Instagram and Facebook. On a 1080 × 1920 file that is about 269 px at the top, 672 px at the bottom and 65 px per side. If a Reels ad includes a disclaimer, Meta says to keep the bottom 40% clear instead. Ads Manager also has a Safe zone guardrail toggle that shows the same area on your creative.
- What is the YouTube Shorts safe zone?
- Google's safe-zone diagram for vertical video ads on YouTube, which covers Shorts, uses a 1080 × 1920 frame and keeps 288 px clear at the top, 672 px at the bottom, 48 px on the left and 192 px on the right. The right margin is wider than the left because that is where the buttons are stacked.
- Is my image or video uploaded anywhere?
- No. The file is opened with a local object URL inside your browser tab; the checker has no upload step and nothing is stored. Closing or reloading the tab discards it. The tool is free and does not need an account.
- Can I check 1:1 or 4:5 feed ads?
- Not with an overlay. For square and 4:5 Feed ads Meta only says to keep the bottom and side edges free and publishes no percentages, so drawing a box would mean inventing numbers. You can still drop a non-9:16 file in and switch between Fill and Fit to see how it crops into a vertical placement. To see a feed creative with its headline and button, use the ad mockup generator.
Clear of the interface. Now make the other sizes.
Bring the creative into Soku: reframe it for each placement, generate new image and video variants, and launch on Meta, Google and TikTok once you approve.
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