TikTok video & image sizes in 2026 (with templates)

The TikTok video size is the easy part. It's 1080 x 1920, 9:16, vertical, same as it's been for a while. You could stop reading there and you'd have the number right. The thing that actually trips people up is what happens after you upload, because TikTok puts its whole interface on top of your video. The like and comment buttons, the username, the caption, the little spinning record, the CTA. All of it sits over your footage.

So if you center your logo or your subtitle perfectly in the 1080 x 1920 frame, half the time it lands right behind a button. I've watched good edits get eaten by the share icon more than once. The pixels are simple. The safe zone is the part nobody puts in the table.

This is every current TikTok size in one place, with the safe area drawn on so you can see exactly where the UI lands. Click any number to copy it, or grab a template if you'd rather start from the right rectangle. It's the TikTok slice of the full social media image size guide, which does the same thing for every other platform.

TikTok video size (1080 x 1920) and the safe zone

Everything full-screen on TikTok is 1080 x 1920. Video, photo posts, ads, all of it shares the same canvas. The trap is that you're never designing on a clean 1080 x 1920. You're designing on whatever's left after the interface covers the edges.

Three zones get covered. The right side has the action column, the like, comment, share, save, and your spinning profile photo, and that eats roughly the right 120 pixels. The bottom is the worst offender: your username, the caption, the music credit, and on ads a CTA button, all stacked up and covering the bottom 480 to 560 pixels. And the top has a status band, the clock and the For You / Following tabs, taking about the top 180 pixels.

Do that math and the part of your 1080 x 1920 that always stays clean is a centered column, a little less than 900 wide and a little over 1200 tall. That's where your face goes, where your text goes, where the thing you actually want people to see goes. Push it any wider or any lower and you're gambling that the UI won't sit on it.

Photo posts are the same 9:16, with a twist

TikTok's photo posts, the swipe-through ones people call Photo Mode, run at 1080 x 1920 too. You can put up to 35 images in a single post and people swipe through them like a carousel. JPG or PNG, same vertical frame as video.

You can also upload a 1080 x 1080 square if that's what you've got, and TikTok will accept it, but it gets letterboxed inside the tall frame with bars above and below. It works. It just doesn't fill the screen, so you give up the real estate that makes vertical worth it. I'd build at 1080 x 1920 unless the square is the whole point of the image.

The profile photo

The profile photo is small and it gets masked to a circle, so the corners are gone. The floor is 200 x 200, but that's genuinely the floor and it looks soft on a nice screen, so I upload at 400 x 400 square and let it scale down. Keep your face or your logo centered with a little padding around it. Anything in the corners disappears when TikTok rounds it off.

Ads, if you're running them

The ad sizes are the same 1080 x 1920 frame as organic, which makes life easy, but the safe zone gets tighter because ads add a CTA button at the bottom. An in-feed ad keeps that 9:16 shape (it'll also take 1:1 or 16:9 if you insist, but vertical is the one that performs). A TopView ad, the full-screen takeover when someone opens the app, is 9:16 only, minimum 540 x 960, and you should ship 1080 x 1920.

Spark ads are the odd one. A Spark ad boosts an existing organic post, so it inherits whatever that post already is. There's no separate size to design for. Build the original at 1080 x 1920 and the ad version carries the same shape. Carousel ad cards are 1080 x 1920 too, anywhere from 2 to 35 of them in a single ad. With any of these, assume the CTA button pushes the bottom safe margin closer to 560 pixels and keep your key text up in the top two-thirds.

File sizes and formats, quick version

Video and photo posts both cap at 500 MB, which is more than you'll hit on a normal upload. The mobile app gets fussier on big files, so if you're posting a long, high-bitrate video, do it through TikTok Studio on desktop where the ceiling is higher. Use MP4 or MOV for video; H.264 with AAC audio is the safe combo. For photos, JPG keeps the file small on a photo, PNG holds up better when you've got text or sharp graphics in the frame. The profile photo is the small one, capped at 10 MB, JPG or PNG.

Just grab the template

If you don't want to eyeball any of this, hit the template pack in the tool up top. You get a PNG for every TikTok surface at the exact upload size, named so you know what each one is, with the safe area and the UI overlap drawn right on the canvas. Drop one into Figma or CapCut as a guide layer and design on top of it, so you can see the share button before you accidentally put your logo behind it.

It's the same approach I use in the print dimensions tool, just pointed at screens instead of paper. If you make assets for both print and social, that one handles DPI and bleed the way this one handles crops and safe zones.

If you're cutting the same vertical content for more than one app, I built matching pages for the two I touch most alongside TikTok: Instagram image sizes and YouTube image sizes. Same copy-paste numbers, same template packs, sized for where each one crops.

FAQ

The full set, with the safe zones and the downloadable templates, is in the tool at the top. Copy what you need, or take the whole pack.