Free Social Safe ZonesThe social ad safe-area checker
Drop in your social or static ad and see exactly where each platform's own UI will land — captions, profile row, like/comment/share buttons, the CTA bar and the status bar. Catch covered headlines and cropped logos before the feed does.
The zones that swallow your message.
Safe areas
Overlays the clear region each placement guarantees your artwork, so key elements stay inside it.
Reserved-UI zones
Shows where the platform stacks captions, profile name, action buttons and the CTA bar over your creative.
Crop & aspect
Shows where a feed or story ratio will crop the edges of your artwork on a phone screen.
Logo & CTA placement
Helps you see at a glance whether your logo, headline and offer clear the chrome on every placement.
Three steps, about ten seconds.
Drop your ad in
Add your social or static creative. It's read locally in your browser — nothing uploads to a server.
Pick the placements
Overlay the safe area and reserved-UI zones for feed and story-style formats, all at once.
Spot & fix
See anything that falls under the platform's UI, then nudge your artwork clear and re-check.
Built by people who ship social creative all day.
Private by design
The check runs entirely in-browser. Your artwork never leaves your device — safe for unreleased campaigns.
See the overlap
A visual overlay of every reserved zone, so you catch covered copy and cropped logos a spec sheet can't show.
Real production knowledge
The safe-area maps come from a studio that lays out social and display creative to placement specs every day.
Social Safe Zones vs Adpiler, AdKit and Meta Creative Hub
Overlay the reserved UI for 27 placements across 9 platforms, with the exact percentage insets and a link to the platform’s own published spec on 19 of them — then download your file with the overlays merged in, animated GIFs stamped frame by frame. Adpiler is a full proofing product at $49/month; AdKit hands you Figma and Canva templates instead.
| Social Safe Zones | Adpiler Small | AdKit Safe Zone Checker | Meta Creative Hub | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free · 2–5/day · $35/mo removes the daily cap · No login, no watermark — the full tool on every free check. | $49/mo monthly · $39 billed annually | $0 · their page calls it a free checker | — · no price stated either way; Meta login required |
| Free to use with no login and no watermark | Yes · 2 a day with no account, 5 with a free one — every overlay and the export on each one; PRO removes the cap. | No · Account required; 14-day trial, then $49/mo (Small; $39 billed annually) per their own pricing page, checked 19 Jul 2026. | Yes · Their tool pages are titled "Free, No Signup" — they match us here. | No · Meta for Business login and an ad account; no price stated either way. |
| Checking your creative is local — nothing is uploaded to run it | Yes · Overlays, device previews and exports are drawn in your browser. Two things do reach a server, both only when you ask: exporting a GIF fetches the encoder library (that CDN sees your IP, never your file), and creating a share link uploads the cards so a client can open them. | No · A cloud proofing product by design — ad sets are uploaded to their servers so clients can review and approve them. | — · Their checker takes your upload in the page; we could not verify from outside whether it stays local. | No · Assets are uploaded into your Creative Hub account on Meta's servers. |
| Hands back YOUR creative with the overlays burned in | Yes · Canvas-composited to match the preview. Note the trade-off: centre-cover-fit to the placement and capped at 1280px long edge, so an off-ratio creative comes back cropped and downscaled, not as your original file with marks on top. | — · Mockups and shareable previews; we could not verify a safe-zone export of your own file. | No · Verified on their live pages 19 Jul 2026: it previews your upload, but every download is a blank overlay — "Open Figma Template", "Open Canva Template", "Download ZIP" of PNG overlays. | — |
| Animated GIF comes back annotated on every frame | Yes · Chromium-based browsers only — Safari, Firefox and offline fall back to a single PNG, and it needs a GIF encoder fetched from a public CDN. MP4 previews live but always exports one still frame. | — | No · No export of your uploaded file at all, animated or still — downloads are blank templates. | — |
| Dim, toggle and zoom the overlays while you inspect the edges | Yes · Safe-area and reserved layers switch independently; overlay opacity 20-100%, zoom 50-200%. | — · Not verified on their pages. | — · Their overlays ship as fixed PNG/Figma/Canva templates; interactive dimming not verified. | — · Not verified. |
| Links the platform's own published spec next to the placement | 19 of 27 placements · Meta, TikTok, X, Snapchat, Pinterest and two of the four LinkedIn placements are cited. YouTube, LinkedIn Feed and Story, and Universal show no source rather than a fabricated one. | — | Yes · Their per-platform pages link the official ad-spec docs and date the measurement ("measured from official ad previews, March 2026"). | It is the platform |
| Platforms and placements covered in one tool | 9 platforms · 27 placements · Includes Pinterest, which AdKit does not cover; we have no Reddit, which they do. | 9 networks · Mockups of the live feed rather than safe-zone overlays. | 10 platforms · Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Meta, Facebook, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Reddit, X and a Universal option — verified on their tool index 19 Jul 2026. | Facebook + Instagram |
| Reads your artwork and gives a pass/fail verdict | No · It is an overlay viewer, not an analyser — you eyeball it. One creative and one placement at a time, no batch. | — | — | — |
| Reusable overlay templates for Figma and Canva | No · We hand back a flattened annotated PNG or GIF — nothing your designer can drop into their own file as layers. | — | Yes · "Open Figma Template", "Open Canva Template" and a per-placement PNG overlay ZIP — verified 19 Jul 2026. | — |
Prices checked on vendors’ own pages 19 July 2026. Adpiler: $49/mo month‑to‑month vs $39/mo billed annually, flat per account with unlimited users but capped at 10 new campaigns/month, 2 GB and 1 white‑label, with six add‑ons priced separately from $9/mo (and an API at $99/mo); its upper tiers are $99, $149 and $249/mo billed monthly. AdKit’s checker is free on its own tool page and we hit no signup wall, but the page makes no explicit “no account” claim, so treat that as observed behaviour rather than a vendor promise; AdKit’s separate paid plans are for other products and are not quoted here. Meta Creative Hub states no price in either direction — it neither charges nor declares itself free — and its page served us localised content, so a reader elsewhere may see different copy. A grey “—” means we could not verify that capability on the vendor’s own pages, not that the vendor lacks it. Your creative is never uploaded by this tool — the one outbound request is for the GIF encoder library, which means the CDN sees your IP when you export a GIF. That privacy claim is about this tool specifically; Send Files, the Creative Review and Ad Preview share links, team chat attachments and the Projects and Leave backends do use a server. Platform safe areas move — re‑check ours against the linked specs before a big launch. Not given rows of their own on this table, but true and worth knowing: in-feed mockups with client comments and approvals. None of them is affiliated with DigiLakshya.
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Free for 2 checks a day with no account and 5 with a free one — nothing uploaded, drop in your creative and see every safe area and reserved-UI overlay instantly. Catch covered headlines and cropped logos before the feed does, or hand the layout to us.