Instagram Reels Size & Aspect Ratio
The right Reels dimensions and safe areas — then resize a whole folder to match, free and in your browser.
Reel video
1080 x 1920
9:16 aspect ratio
The right Reels dimensions and safe areas — then resize a whole folder to match, free and in your browser.
Reel video
1080 x 1920
9:16 aspect ratio
Reels is 9:16 at 1080x1920, the same frame as Stories. What trips people up is the cover: Instagram shows your Reel as a tall rectangle in the Reels tab but crops it to a square on your profile grid, so a cover that looks perfect in one place can be beheaded in the other.
| Format | Pixels | Ratio | Notes | Resize to this size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reel video | 1080x1920 | 9:16 | Full-screen vertical, same frame as Stories. | Resize to this — 1080 by 1920 pixels, Reel video |
| Reel cover | 1080x1920 | 9:16 | Cropped to 1:1 on the profile grid — keep the subject dead centre. | Resize to this — 1080 by 1920 pixels, Reel cover |
| Profile grid crop | 1080x1080 | 1:1 | What your cover is reduced to on your profile. Design for this first. | Resize to this — 1080 by 1080 pixels, Profile grid crop |
| Stories (same frame) | 1080x1920 | 9:16 | Reels and Stories share dimensions, so one export serves both. | Resize to this — 1080 by 1920 pixels, Stories (same frame) |
Knowing the number is the easy half. If you have a folder of images that all need to become 1080x1920, BulkImagePro will do the whole set in one pass — in your browser, without uploading anything to a server.
Working from the shape rather than the platform? The aspect ratio cheat sheet lists every ratio with its exact pixel sizes, including the cinema ones.
9:16 vertical at 1080x1920 pixels. It is the same frame as Instagram Stories, so anything sized for one works for the other without re-exporting.
Upload it at 1080x1920, but compose it for a 1:1 crop. Instagram shows the full tall version in the Reels tab and a centre-cropped square on your profile grid, and the grid is where people judge your feed as a whole.
Because the profile grid is square and the Reel is 9:16. Instagram takes a centre crop, which cuts roughly the top and bottom quarter. Put your subject and any text in the middle third and it survives both views.
Roughly the top 250 pixels and bottom 400 pixels of a 1080x1920 frame are covered by interface — the account row up top, the caption, audio strip, and buttons below. Keep anything you need read inside the middle.
Yes, both are 1080x1920. The main thing to check is that no platform watermark or UI-dependent text ends up in the other app's covered area — a caption positioned for TikTok can land under Instagram's button rail.