---
title: "TikTok, Reels and Shorts safe-zone checker, free | Kuro"
description: "Lay TikTok, Instagram Reels, Stories and YouTube Shorts overlays on your own video or image to see what the app will cover. Free, no upload."
canonical_url: "https://meetkuro.com/tools/safe-zone-checker/"
locale: "en"
tool: "safe-zone-checker"
---

# Safe-zone checker

Drop a video or an image and see where each app's buttons, name and caption will sit on top of it.

Your file never leaves this device. Everything runs in your browser.

[Safe-zone checker](https://meetkuro.com/tools/safe-zone-checker/)

## Made for

- [TikTok safe zones](https://meetkuro.com/tools/safe-zone-checker/tiktok/)
- [Instagram Reels safe zones](https://meetkuro.com/tools/safe-zone-checker/instagram-reels/)
- [YouTube Shorts safe zones](https://meetkuro.com/tools/safe-zone-checker/youtube-shorts/)

## How it works

1. Drop a video or an image.
2. Pick a platform, or All to see the area that's safe everywhere.
3. Scrub through the video and check that no text or face sits in the shaded areas.

## Questions

### Where do these numbers come from?

Meta publishes safe zones for Reels and Stories. TikTok and YouTube publish template images rather than numbers, so theirs are measured by third parties from those templates. Each platform's source is linked under the preview, and the whole table is free to reuse.

### Are these the same for regular posts and ads?

The platforms publish these zones for ads. Regular posts get close to the same interface, but TikTok's covered area grows with a long caption, so leave extra room there.

### Does my video get uploaded?

No. It's drawn in your browser, on your device.

### My video isn't 9:16. What happens?

The apps show it with bars above and below, and the checker does the same. The Resize tool turns it into 9:16.

## Kuro

Kuro makes vertical clips from a prompt or a picture, already the right shape.

[Make a short that fits](https://app.meetkuro.com/create?type=shorts&aspect=9%3A16&utm_source=tools&utm_medium=tool&utm_campaign=safe-zone-checker) — Kuro opens the clip composer set to 9:16.

## More free tools

- [Compress a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/compress-video.md): Make a video small enough for Discord, email or WhatsApp.
- [Resize a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/resize-video.md): Turn a video into 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, or 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9.
- [Crop a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/crop-video.md): Cut a video down to the part you want to keep, at its own size.
- [Rotate a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/rotate-video.md): Turn a video the right way up, or mirror it.
- [Trim a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/trim-video.md): Cut a video down to the part you want, in seconds.
- [Mute a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/mute-video.md): Remove the sound from a video without re-encoding it.

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## About Kuro

Kuro is an AI picture studio: prompt-driven images, clips, voice-overs and music, and storyboard-backed films with consistent characters across every scene.

Agents connect over MCP and can generate directly:

```
claude mcp add kuro https://api.meetkuro.com/mcp --transport http
```

The app is at https://app.meetkuro.com and requires an account.

Each guide, model page, comparison and free tool page on this site (not a tool's variants, and not the index pages) has a Markdown twin at its own URL plus `.md`, and so do /benchmarks/, the English /agents/ page (as /agents.md) and the MCP tool reference. Free video tools: https://meetkuro.com/tools/