Free vertical video safe zone checker for TikTok, Reels & Shorts

A vertical video “safe zone” is the part of a 1080×1920 frame that is not covered by the app’s own interface — captions, like buttons, tab bars, progress segments, reply fields. It is not a taste preference. It is geometry. If your hook sits in the same rectangle as TikTok’s username, the username wins. If a Meta ad CTA covers a URL you burned in for an organic Story, the spend is wasted.

FramePad draws those rectangles as live overlays and lets you crop or pad the picture underneath, in this browser, without uploading the file. The measurements come from screenshots on iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16 Pro Max, and Galaxy S24 Ultra. They are documented, per platform, in specification tables that list pixels, percentages, and millimetre equivalents. The method is on the about page. The long-form notes are in the guide library.

Cloud converters can also produce a 9:16 file. They do it by taking a copy of your media. FramePad does not. Decode, overlay, crop, blur-pad, and export run in Canvas 2D and WebAssembly inside this tab. That is the product difference, and it is also why a draft campaign can be proofed on a machine that never opened a ticket with a render farm. Read what “no upload” means in a network panel.

If you arrived with a file, open the studio, drop it, and pick a destination. If you arrived with a question — why a caption covers a title, whether to crop or pad, where a Dynamic Island eats a logo — start in the guide library. Those articles are written to be useful if the studio is closed. They cite the same measurements the overlay uses, documented in methodology.

A vertical video safe zone is not a brand guideline colour. It is the rectangle that remains after an app draws tabs, captions, like buttons, progress bars, and CTAs on a 1080×1920 canvas. FramePad reconstructs that chrome from screenshots on iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16 Pro Max, and Galaxy S24 Ultra. We publish one conservative overlay per platform, not a fake kit for every panel. Confirm a final cut on the destination phone before you spend media budget. That sentence is also in the terms because it is the honest limit of a reconstruction.

Processing stays in the tab. Decode, overlay, crop, blur-pad, and export run in Canvas 2D and WebAssembly. Closing the tab discards the bytes. Google Analytics records that a page was viewed; it does not receive the file. The privacy policy lists cookies, including advertising cookies if this site is accepted into a display network. Ads, if any, will not be drawn as fake platform chrome on the canvas.

Vocabulary is in the glossary. Overlay revisions are in the changelog. Corrections go to hello@framepad.app. If you only remember one production rule: keep essential type out of the top 12%, the bottom 20%, and the right 14%, then check the destination overlay. The pre-publish checklist is the longer form of that sentence.