A TikTok cover is the first thing a viewer sees in the feed and on your profile grid, and the wrong size means cropped text or a blurry thumbnail. This tool gives the exact pixel dimensions, aspect ratios, and safe zones for every TikTok thumbnail type.
How it works
TikTok thumbnails are uploaded at the native vertical frame of 1080x1920 pixels (9:16) but are displayed differently depending on surface. In the For You feed the full 9:16 cover shows, with the caption overlapping the lower portion and the action buttons overlapping the right edge. On your profile grid the same cover is trimmed toward the centre, so the top and bottom are clipped.
The safe-zone rule is therefore to keep all critical text and faces inside the central region of the 9:16 frame, clear of roughly the bottom fifth and the right side, so they remain visible on every surface.
Example
For a tutorial video cover, build a 1080x1920 canvas. Place your headline text centred horizontally and within the middle 60 percent vertically. Keep it away from the right edge where the like, comment, and share buttons sit. Export as PNG to keep the text sharp.
Tips and notes
- Always design at 1080x1920 — uploading smaller forces TikTok to upscale and blur the cover.
- Keep text in the middle third; the bottom and right are covered by UI.
- For profile-grid consistency, centre your subject so the square-ish grid crop still frames it well.