Drop a TikTok or a frame and see where the caption, sound, buttons and top bar 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 video that TikTok's interface doesn't cover: clear of the caption, username and sound at the bottom, the action buttons on the right, and the Following / For You bar at the top. TikTok 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.
In the middle band, with the hook text in the upper half — the caption takes the bottom quarter, and the buttons take the right edge. The green box is the safe area.
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.
TikTok Video SizeThe 1080×1920 TikTok spec with the caption, buttons and safe area drawn on — check a frame or download the template.
Instagram Reels Safe ZoneDrop a Reel or a frame and scrub through it with Instagram's overlays drawn on top — caption, buttons, grid crop.
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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