Instagram posts use a 1080 px width with three aspect ratios — square (1080×1080), portrait (1080×1350) and landscape (1080×566). Stories and Reels are full-screen at 1080×1920. X and Threads render inline images best at 1600×900, and YouTube expects thumbnails at 1280×720. These are the dimensions each platform recommends for upload; platforms downscale for display but starting above their recommendation wastes bandwidth without adding sharpness.
Correct dimensions do not guarantee a usable post. Platforms draw their own interface over your image — a Story shows the account name at the top and a reply bar at the bottom, a YouTube thumbnail gets a duration badge in the bottom-right corner, and an Instagram profile grid crops posts to a smaller frame. The dashed outline marks the area that survives all of that. Keep text, faces and logos inside it. The overlay is preview-only and never appears in the downloaded file.
A square and a 9:16 vertical frame cannot show the same crop of one photo — something has to be cut, and which part depends on what the photo contains. Rather than guessing a mapping between sizes, this tool remembers the zoom and position you chose for each size separately. Adjust one and the others stay as you left them; switch back and your framing is still there.
Common questions and answers about this topic.
1080×1920 pixels (9:16). Keep important content out of the top and bottom 250 pixels, where Instagram shows the account name and the reply bar.
1280×720 pixels (16:9). Leave the bottom-right corner clear — YouTube draws the video duration badge there on every thumbnail.
1600×900 pixels (16:9) works well for both. Inline images are cropped toward that ratio in the timeline, so composing at it avoids surprises.
The profile grid shows a narrower frame than the post itself, so portrait and especially landscape posts lose their edges there. The safe zone overlay marks what survives the crop — landscape posts have the widest margins for exactly this reason.
No. Open the page, drop in an image and download — there is no sign-up, no install and no watermark.
Yes. Tick more than one size and they are packed into a single ZIP, with each file named after its platform so you can tell them apart without opening them.