WhatsApp gives every video surface its own duration window: a Status caps at one minute, a Channel update runs longer, a chat share is bounded by file size, and a video note is short by design. Paste in your clip’s length and this checker tells you, format by format, whether it fits or how much you need to trim.
How it works
You enter minutes and seconds, and the tool converts them to a single total in seconds. It then compares that total against each format’s minimum and maximum window: Status and video notes at 60 seconds, Channel updates at 5 minutes, chat shares at about 16 minutes, and click-to-WhatsApp ad placements at their Meta Ads limits. A format shows a green tick when your duration falls inside its window, and otherwise tells you precisely how many seconds you are short or how far you are over.
Tips and example
Suppose you have a 90-second clip. The checker shows it fits a Channel update and a chat share, but is 30 seconds too long for a Status — which means WhatsApp would split it into a 60-second segment plus a 30-second one. If you want a single clean Status, trim to 60 seconds. For ads, keep videos short: the first few seconds carry the message, so aim well under 15 seconds even where the format technically allows minutes.