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Your caption is under the share button
Every platform paints its own buttons over your video, in different places, and none of them show you that while you are editing.
Preview
Not interactive yet
Drop a frame
reel-final-frame.jpg · 1080 x 1920
- TikTok · bottom 18%, right 14%
- Reels · bottom 20%
- Shorts · bottom 15%
Three steps
How it will work
Upload one frame
The frame with your text on it, which is the one that matters.
See the overlays
Each surface's interface drawn on top, because they differ enough to catch you out.
Move the text up
Usually the whole fix. The middle of the frame is almost always safe.
What it is for
Why this one is worth having
Three surfaces, three masks
A frame that is safe on Shorts can be half-covered on TikTok, which is where this normally goes wrong.
Frame for the ratio
Convert into 9:16 and you crop out the edges. Frame for it from the start and you do not.
Keep the eighths clear
Top and bottom eighths belong to the platform. Treat them as unusable rather than as tight.
Available now
What you can already do
Everything PikoReels generates is cut 9:16 from the start rather than converted into it, which removes most of the ways this goes wrong.
AutomationsFAQ
9:16 safe zone checker, asked and answered
What is the 9:16 safe zone?
The middle region of a vertical frame that no platform's interface covers. The top and bottom eighths carry usernames, captions and buttons, so anything essential placed there gets hidden.
Is the safe zone the same on every platform?
No, and that is the trap. A frame that reads perfectly on YouTube Shorts can have its caption under TikTok's action rail.
Is this tool live?
Not yet. In the meantime, keep text out of the top and bottom eighths and you will avoid almost all of it.
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Others in the same corner
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The product is further along than the tools
Ten free videos, no watermark, and no card to start.