Drop a Reel or a frame and see where the caption, username, buttons and grid crop cover it — scrub through the whole video. Free, no login.
Keep text, faces and anything that matters inside the green safe area. The platforms don’t publish exact pixels, so the overlays are close, not exact.
The part of a 1080 × 1920 Reel that Instagram's interface doesn't cover: clear of the caption, username and audio line at the bottom, the like, comment and share buttons on the right, and the top bar. Instagram doesn't publish exact pixels, so the overlays here are close, not exact.
Yes. Drop the video file and scrub through it with the overlays on — the checker plays it in a 9:16 box, so you can stop on any frame where text or a face appears.
The grid shows a 3:4 centre crop of the Reel's cover, cutting the top and bottom. The dashed blue box marks it, so you can see whether the cover still reads as a tile.
No. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to Hookova.
Yes — tick them under the drop area to see all three at once, which is the quickest way to place text that works when you post the same video everywhere.
Instagram Reel SizeThe 1080×1920 Reel spec with the safe zone and the 3:4 grid crop drawn over your frame or cover.
TikTok Safe ZoneDrop a TikTok or a frame and scrub through it with TikTok's overlays drawn on top — caption, sound, buttons.
YouTube Shorts Safe ZoneDrop a Short or a frame and scrub through it with the Shorts player's overlays drawn on top — title, channel, buttons.
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