SOCIAL SIZE

Story & Reels

1080 × 1920 — full screen, with the top and bottom spoken for.

SOCIAL SIZE

☞ runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded

Drop your image here

or click to browse — JPG, PNG, WebP

1080 × 1920

Full screen, minus the interface

A story fills the phone: 1080 × 1920, a 9:16 rectangle matching the shape of the screen it will be shown on. That is the easy part. The part that catches people is that the app draws its own furniture on top — the account name and progress bars along the top, the reply box, caption and action buttons along the bottom. Roughly the top and bottom eighth of your image sit underneath all that.

So the working area is the middle, not the whole rectangle. Crop to the full 9:16 so nothing is letterboxed or stretched, then keep faces, text and logos inside the central band. The same file works for a reel cover, which is why this size is worth exporting once and reusing rather than letting the app scale whatever you happened to have.

three steps

How to make a story or reel image

01

Drop your image in

PNG, JPG or WebP. It is decoded in the page — nothing is uploaded, so nothing waits on a connection.

02

Move the box

The crop box is already locked to the 9:16 shape. Drag it over the part that matters and resize it from any corner; the pixel size is shown as you go.

03

Download

The export is exactly 1080 × 1920. Keep anything that must be read inside the middle band, clear of the interface at both ends.

quick answers

Story size FAQ

What size is an Instagram story?

1080 × 1920 pixels, a 9:16 ratio — the same shape as a phone screen. That is what this page exports, and it applies to reels and to most other vertical short-video formats too.

Why is my text hidden behind the buttons?

Because the interface overlays the top and bottom of the image. Keep anything that has to be read within the middle portion; treat the outer eighths as bleed.

What if my photo is horizontal?

A 9:16 crop of a horizontal photo keeps only a narrow vertical slice. Often it is better to put the photo on a coloured background at the story size rather than crop into it that hard.

Does anything get uploaded here?

No. The crop and the resize happen in your browser and the file never leaves your device.