Social Media Safe Area Checker

Drop in a finished 9:16 image or video, scrub to risky frames, switch between platform safe zones, place draggable text/logo/subject boxes, compare Reels–TikTok–Shorts side by side, and export transparent overlays for your editor.

Source confidence built inPublished platform percentages, official-template measurements and OneFreePlace planning overlays are labelled separately.

Manual critical-element QAPlace real bounding boxes for hook text, captions, logos or faces and test whether the entire box survives.

Image + local video framesCheck a still creative or scrub browser-supported video without uploading unreleased work.

Reusable overlay exportsGenerate transparent PNG safe-zone overlays plus an audit JSON for Figma, Canva, CapCut or review handoff.

1. Creative

local only

Drop, paste or choose image/videoImages: JPEG/PNG/WebP/AVIF/GIF · Videos: MP4/WebM/MOV if your browser can decode them

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2. Platform / placement

reviewed 25 Sep 2026

3. Creative display

Risk overlay 48%

Overlay labels

Show 3×3 composition grid Tint safe region

4. Critical elements

manual boxes · no fake AI detection

5. Export / handoff

Overlay export style

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Images, decoded video frames, critical boxes and exports stay in this tab. The tool uses no external JavaScript and does not upload your creative.

Instagram Reels ads

1080 × 1920 · Meta-published 14% top / 35% bottom / 6% sides planning margin

Drag a selected critical box directly on the canvas · overlay never changes your source

Cross-platform 3-up

Meta Reels · published ad margins

TikTok · official-template-derived

YouTube · Google template-derived

Same frame, three UI-risk systems. This is the fastest way to catch “works on Reels, breaks on Shorts” layouts.

Current zone geometry

Top reserve14%

Bottom reserve35%

Left reserve6%

Right reserve6%

Published by platform for Meta Reels ads; percentages scale with canvas size.

Critical-element matrix

Element	Reels	TikTok	Shorts

PASS means the entire manual box sits inside that platform's configured safe rectangle.

Placement notes

Safe zones are composition guidance, not publishing validation. App UI can move by device, account, format and experiment.

PlacementMeta Reels

Safe rectangle950 × 979

Source confidencePublished

Critical boxes0

Frame sourceDemo image