Story & Reels Safe Zone Checker
See which parts of your 9:16 image get covered by buttons, captions and usernames.
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Good to know: Red areas are where the app puts buttons and text. Keep faces, prices and important words inside the clear area. Guides are approximate; apps change their layout. Your files stay on your device: nothing is uploaded.
How to use it (step by step)
- 1Choose your tall (9:16) story or reel image.
- 2Pick the app (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts…).
- 3Anything in the red areas will be covered by buttons and text. Move important things into the green box.
Words to know
- Safe zone
- The middle part of a vertical video or story that is not covered by the app’s buttons and captions.
- Aspect ratio (9:16, 4:5…)
- The shape of an image: width compared to height. 9:16 is tall like a phone screen, 16:9 is wide like a TV, 1:1 is square.
- Subtitles (SRT/VTT)
- Text files with the words spoken in a video and the exact times to show them.
- Area / volume / perimeter
- Perimeter = distance around a shape. Area = the flat space inside it (m²). Volume = the space inside a 3D object (m³).
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