Will the buttons cover your text?
Drop a frame or a video. See the margins TikTok, Reels and Shorts keep for their buttons, names and captions — and drag over your text to check it.
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How it works
Short and checkable: every limit links to the platform's own page, read on 28 Oct 2026.
The margins come from the ad guides
No platform publishes safe zones for ordinary posts. Each one publishes them for its ads, whose buttons and captions sit where yours do, so they are the best published margin to keep text out of. Meta writes its numbers out: 14 % top, 35 % bottom, 6 % each side. Google draws its numbers on a reference image: 288, 672, 48 and 192 px.
TikTok's are measured from its template
TikTok only publishes template files, and says its zone shrinks when the caption gets longer. We measured its In-Feed template, drawn at 720 × 1280, and scaled it to 1080 × 1920: 240 px top, 660 px bottom, 120 px each side, and 300 px on the right from 840 px down, where the buttons sit.
All three = the widest margin of each side
Pick "All three" and the checker keeps, side by side, the largest margin of the three. Text inside it is clear on every app. Then drag a box over your caption, price or logo: each platform says if, and by how much, its margins would cover it.
What it doesn't do
- It doesn't draw each app's buttons: they move between versions, so only the published margins are shown.
- It doesn't read text in your picture: you mark it yourself.
- It doesn't cover TikTok ads with anchors, Arabic layouts or long captions — those have other templates.
- Your file is shown from this device's memory and never uploaded.
Questions
What is the TikTok safe zone?
The middle of the 1080 × 1920 frame that TikTok's buttons, caption and username don't cover. On TikTok's own template that leaves about 240 px at the top, 660 px at the bottom and 120 px on each side free of interface.
What is the Instagram Reels safe zone?
Meta's guide asks to keep text out of the top 14 %, the bottom 35 % and 6 % on each side of a Reel.
What is the YouTube Shorts safe zone?
Google's 1080 × 1920 reference keeps 288 px at the top, 672 px at the bottom, 48 px on the left and 192 px on the right free.
Sources
- 1TikTok Ads Help Center — In-Feed ad specifications — safe zone template (In-Feed Standard LTR, Feed.png)updated Jul 2025; measured 28 Oct 2026; zone shrinks with long captions · read 28 Oct 2026
- 2Meta for Business — Ads guide — Instagram Reels: leave 14 % top, 35 % bottom, 6 % each sidedesign recommendation for ads · read 28 Oct 2026
- 3Google Ads Help — About video ad specs — vertical 1080 × 1920 safe zone reference288 / 672 / 48 / 192 px on its image · read 28 Oct 2026
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