TikTok video size, dimensions and aspect ratio
TikTok takes vertical or landscape videos, and its Creator Academy says 720p or higher when you upload in TikTok Studio on a computer, read on 3 November 2026. Its advert specs recommend vertical 9:16 at 540 x 960 or more. TikTok prints no pixel size for an ordinary post: a vertical 9:16 video at 1080 x 1920 meets every figure above. Drop your video to see its size and what TikTok makes of it; it opens on this device and is never uploaded.
It reads the width, height and length the file reports. It does not read the frame rate or the bitrate.
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- Shape
- Length
- File
| Format | Shape and size | Length | Your video |
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Make it full-screen TikTok, with captions
Free: 2 videos every 30 days, each with captions and up to 3 clips, no watermark, no sign-up. Then try Captions + Clips free for 7 days, no card. Captions + Clips is $29 a month for unlimited clips and captions; Captions is $9.98 a month or $49 once.
TikTok's sizes, from its own pages
TikTok's help centre has no page of sizes for an ordinary post (its Creating videos section had none on 3 November 2026), so every figure below is from another page of TikTok's own: the Creator Academy, the page for developers whose apps post videos, and the specs for In-Feed adverts. Each is linked and was read on 3 November 2026. Lengths are on video length limits, and what the buttons cover on the safe zone checker.
| What | TikTok's figure | What its own page says | Source, read 3 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shape of a post | vertical or landscape | Upload vertical or landscape videos, whatever fits your style best. | TikTok Creator Academy, Creator Rewards Program read 3 Nov 2026 |
| A horizontal video | a View full screen button | Uploaded horizontal videos automatically show a 'view full screen' button, so there is no need to add black margins; make sure the video is truly landscape, with no text in the margins. | TikTok Creator Academy, 8 tips for becoming a successful TikTok creator read 3 Nov 2026 |
| Uploading in TikTok Studio on a computer | 720p or higher, up to 10 GB. | Whether it's landscape or vertical, you can upload videos up to 60 minutes long in 720p resolution or higher, up to a size of 10 GB. | TikTok Creator Academy, 8 tips for becoming a successful TikTok creator read 3 Nov 2026 |
| The Creator Rewards Program | 1080p or higher | Ensure your videos are 1080p or higher. | TikTok Creator Academy, Creator Rewards Program read 3 Nov 2026 |
| Posted by an app | MP4, WebM or MOV; 360 to 4096 pixels | MP4 (recommended), WebM or MOV; H.264 (recommended), H.265, VP8 or VP9; 23 to 60 frames a second; at least 360 and at most 4096 pixels for both height and width; up to 4 GB. | TikTok for Developers: Content Posting API, Media Transfer Guide read 3 Nov 2026 |
| In-Feed adverts | 9:16 recommended, at least 540 x 960 | Vertical (recommended) 9:16, at least 540 x 960 pixels; horizontal 16:9, at least 960 x 540; square 1:1, at least 640 x 640; .mp4, .mov, .mpeg, .3gp or .avi; up to 500 MB. The page says it was last updated in June 2026. | TikTok Ads Manager help: TikTok Auction In-Feed Ads read 3 Nov 2026 |
The Creator Academy's articles open inside its own page, which is why the links above go to it; the article each line comes from is named under the link. TikTok changes these. We read every page again each month and change the dates together; the next check is by 3 December 2026.
Where TikTok's pages differ, and what they leave out
File size: the Creator Academy says up to 10 GB in TikTok Studio on a computer; the page for apps that post says up to 4 GB; the advert specs say up to 500 MB. Each is for its own way of posting.
A pixel size for an ordinary post: none of TikTok's pages we read gives one. 1080 x 1920 is 9:16, the shape its advert specs recommend, at 1080p, the Creator Rewards Program's floor, and well inside the 360 to 4096 pixels its API takes.
A square or 4:5 post: the Creator Academy names vertical and landscape, and the advert specs take square; no page we read says how an ordinary square or 4:5 post is shown in the feed, so the checker marks it as taken, with a catch.
Make a video TikTok-sized in Burncaps
Burncaps turns a wide or square video vertical in your browser and burns word-by-word captions in, or none if you choose No captions. The video never leaves your device.
| Shape in Burncaps | Size on a computer | On TikTok |
|---|---|---|
| Vertical 9:16 | 1080 x 1920 | The shape TikTok recommends for adverts, at 1080p |
| Square 1:1 | 1080 x 1080 | Taken by its advert specs; not full screen |
| Portrait 4:5 | 1080 x 1350 | Vertical, not 9:16 |
A whole video, up to ten minutes and 1.2 GB: open More, then Shape, and choose Vertical 9:16. Follow me finds your face and keeps it in the frame like a calm camera operator; Fixed holds the frame where you drag it; Fit everything keeps the whole wide picture and fills above and below with a blurred copy of it. Every second is kept. A phone may write a smaller size to fit its memory.
A longer recording, up to three hours: Burncaps finds the moments worth posting and cuts each into a 9:16 clip of up to 3 minutes, framed on whoever is talking, with ums cut and long pauses shortened. Long video to Shorts explains how the clips are chosen.
Free: 2 videos every 30 days, each with captions and up to 3 clips, no watermark, no sign-up. Then try Captions + Clips free for 7 days, no card. Captions + Clips is $29 a month for unlimited clips and captions; Captions is $9.98 a month or $49 once.
The same video on Instagram and YouTube Shorts
Instagram Reels: any shape from 1.91:1 to 9:16, at least 720 pixels and 30 frames a second, so a 9:16 TikTok is also a Reel. The figures are on Instagram Reel size.
YouTube Shorts: square or vertical, up to three minutes, uploaded at up to 1080p. The figures are on YouTube Shorts size.
Questions, answered plainly
What are the TikTok video dimensions?
TikTok prints no pixel size for an ordinary post. Its Creator Academy says it takes vertical or landscape videos at 720p or higher when you upload in TikTok Studio on a computer, and its advert specs recommend vertical 9:16 at 540 x 960 or more. A vertical 9:16 video at 1080 x 1920 meets all of these, and the 1080p the Creator Rewards Program asks for. Read on 3 November 2026.
What aspect ratio is a TikTok video?
TikTok recommends vertical 9:16 for its In-Feed adverts, which also take horizontal 16:9 and square 1:1. For ordinary posts its Creator Academy says to upload vertical or landscape videos, and that a horizontal video shows a View full screen button, so there is no need to add black margins.
What resolution should a TikTok video be?
720p or higher when you upload in TikTok Studio on a computer, by TikTok's Creator Academy, and 1080p or higher for videos in the Creator Rewards Program. Apps that post through TikTok's own API can send 360 to 4096 pixels on each side.
What video format does TikTok take?
TikTok's page for apps that post lists MP4 (recommended), WebM and MOV, with H.264 video recommended, at 23 to 60 frames a second. Its In-Feed advert specs list .mp4, .mov, .mpeg, .3gp and .avi. Read on 3 November 2026.
Can I post a horizontal video on TikTok?
Yes. TikTok's Creator Academy says TikTok is not only for vertical videos: an uploaded horizontal video shows a View full screen button, as long as it is truly landscape, with no text in black margins.
Is my video uploaded to check its size?
No. The page reads the width, height and length from the video file in your browser, on your own device, and the file is never sent anywhere, which you can see in your browser's network tab on a computer. The page sends only anonymous step counts, such as that the page was opened, never anything from the file (see the privacy policy).
How do I make a video 9:16 for TikTok?
Drop it into Burncaps, then under More choose Shape and Vertical 9:16, and choose how the frame is set: Follow me, Fixed or Fit everything. A whole video up to ten minutes keeps every second; a longer recording, up to three hours, becomes 9:16 clips of up to 3 minutes each. Free is 2 videos every 30 days, each with captions and up to 3 clips, no watermark, no sign-up.
Burncaps facts, checked 3 November 2026
What it is: a browser tool that burns animated word-by-word captions into a talking video, or finds the best moments of a talk, podcast or interview and gives them back as ranked, captioned 9:16 clips.
Price: free for 2 videos every 30 days, each one recording with its captioned video and up to 3 clips, no mark and no sign-up; then the free 7-day Captions + Clips trial, no card (your email only); then Captions + Clips, $29 a month, gives unlimited clips and captioned videos, or Captions, $9.98 a month or $49 once, gives unlimited captioned videos. Captions paid once is not a subscription.
Privacy: the video never leaves your browser. The sound goes only to our speech service, on a phone unless you switch it off, on a computer only if you choose it. Because the video never reaches us, we cannot keep it or train AI on it, and we train no AI on anything you make.
Files: MP4 or MOV in, MP4 out. Captions on the whole video: up to ten minutes. Clips: up to three hours, on a phone or a computer. SRT, VTT, ASS and text files are free without limit for recordings up to ten minutes; a longer recording, up to three hours, gives its script and those files (the first ten minutes free, all of it as one of your free videos, in the trial or with Captions + Clips or Captions) and its clips (every one found and shown before you sign up; up to 3 from each free video exported free, every one in the trial or with Captions + Clips).
Clips: about one clip for every two minutes of talk, up to 30, ranked, the ones we would post first circled, each showing the words it opens and ends on and the reason it was chosen; each cut to 9:16 with ums and dead air removed, an opening card and captions, framed on whoever is talking. Every clip of the whole recording is found and shown, free and with no sign-up; each free video exports up to 3 of them, and the 7-day trial and Captions + Clips export every clip, unlimited.
Languages and styles: captions in the language spoken, twelve Indian languages heard on your device, translation into 59 languages, 60 caption styles.
After it listens: correct any word (one click changes it everywhere), add or cut words, one to six words at a time, position, size, text and highlight colours, and names this browser remembers, all free and without listening again.
Made by: Jordan Labs Ltd, UK company no. 17358646.
Against other tools: sixteen caption tools compared, from the vendors' own pages.