BannerShape Independent banner toolkit

Reviewed 12 Nov 2026

Banner sizes Image crops Templates

Banner sizes and templates that fit every frame

BannerShape works out which shape your banner has to fit, crops the photo so the subject survives, and exports files you can upload. Free, independent, no account — and nothing you open leaves your browser.

Start here

  • Find the frame. Every upload box has a fixed shape. The size reference lists the numbers we can source, and labels the ones that are only conventions.
  • Fit the picture. Keep faces and type inside the centre — the edges are what a narrower screen crops.
  • Export in publish order. The banner maker cuts one photo into three numbered tiles, in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
Find the right size Frame numbers with the evidence level for each — no invented specs. Split a photo into posts One image in, three numbered tiles out. Runs in the tab. Start from a template 21 original three-post designs, with numbered PNG downloads.

No account, no upload, no unlockers. The image tools run in your browser tab; nothing you open is sent to a server. BannerShape is independent and is not affiliated with any platform.

1 2 3 SAFE AREA 3240 × 1440 canvas · 3 × 1080 × 1440 tiles CROP MARKS · SEAMS · SAFE AREA
Original diagram, not a platform screenshot. 3240 × 1440 is a community canvas for three 1080 × 1440 tiles — a working convention, not a published platform specification.

01 Scope, stated plainly

Which platforms are covered today

TikTok is the only platform with published pages on this site right now. The other four are listed so you can see what is planned — and see that there is nothing to click yet. We add a platform when we can state its frame numbers with a source, not before.

Instagram

Planned · no page yet

Profile header and story crops. We will publish when the frame numbers can be cited rather than guessed.

YouTube

Planned · no page yet

Channel banner and safe area across TV, desktop and mobile. Not researched to this site's standard yet.

X

Planned · no page yet

Profile header crop and what the mobile layout hides. No page, no placeholder URL.

LinkedIn

Planned · no page yet

Company and personal banner frames. Queued behind the four above.

Nothing on this page is a live platform status feed, and an unlisted platform is not a promise of coverage. If you arrived looking for Instagram, YouTube, X or LinkedIn sizes, the honest answer today is: not here yet.

02 What you can use now

Tools and templates that work today

Three things are finished and testable: a size reference, a browser splitter and a template gallery. Each one says what it does not do, because that is usually the part that wastes your time.

Reference

Banner size reference

Three frames get called a TikTok banner. The reference gives the number for each, keeps published specs apart from community conventions, and shows what a source image of another shape actually loses.

  • 3240 × 1440 for a three-tile canvas; 1080 × 1440 per tile
  • The native profile background is marked “no published size”, not guessed
  • Crop arithmetic, so you can see the loss before exporting
Open the size reference

Browser tool

Banner maker

Drop in one wide photo and cut it into three posts. Drag to position, zoom, choose 3:4 or 9:16 tiles, then download numbered files in posting order. The image is decoded in the tab and never uploaded.

  • Single tiles, the full banner, or one ZIP in posting order
  • 3:4 (3240 × 1440) and 9:16 (3240 × 1920) presets
  • Works without an account; no third-party script loads on that page
Open the banner maker

Templates

Free template gallery

21 original three-post designs, drawn for this site. Preview a design, download its numbered PNGs as a ZIP made in your browser, or send one to the maker and re-crop it first.

  • No watermark added, no attribution required
  • Each card deep-links into the maker with that design loaded
  • Same three-post layout, so the tiles line up on the first try
Browse the gallery

03 Topic area

TikTok banners: get, fix or make one

This is the site's first complete topic, carried over from the original guide. Three jobs, three pages — plus the size reference and template gallery above. If the phrase “TikTok banner” is what brought you here, start with the job you actually have.

Get a banner on your profile The five-tap path, a creator demo, and the branch where the control is absent. Guide Fix a banner that is not showing Four symptoms, one safe next step each, and what no website can check for you. Guide Make a banner from three posts Canvas, seams, posting order and pin fixes — with the splitter built in. Guide + tool

Keep digging: the size reference explains the frames, the template gallery skips the blank canvas, and the update page keeps the dated evidence for the profile-background control.

04 The short version

How it works, in three steps

Every tool on the site follows the same order. None of the steps needs an account, and none of them sends your image anywhere.

Choose the frame

Look up the shape the upload box expects — a three-tile canvas, a single post, or a header. Write the pixel size down before you open an editor; resizing later always costs detail.

Fit the image, then crop

Scale until the photo covers the frame, then move it — never stretch it. Keep faces and text inside the safe area, because a narrower screen crops the edges first.

Export in order

Tiles are numbered for publishing. For a three-post banner, publish right → middle → left and pin all three, then check the result on your own profile before making a second attempt.

Ready to try it? Open the banner maker Start from a template

05 Straight answers

BannerShape FAQ

Short answers to the questions readers ask most often. Anything that needs a screen-by-screen sequence links to the page that owns it.

What can I actually do on this site?

Three things: look up a banner frame size, cut one photo into three posts in the browser, and start from one of 21 free templates. The TikTok guides underneath explain how to set a profile banner and what to do when the option is missing.

Do I need an account, or an email address?

No. There is no sign-up, no newsletter and no download gate. The tools run in the page, and the files you export are ordinary browser downloads.

Which platforms do you cover?

TikTok today, in six pages. Instagram, YouTube, X and LinkedIn are planned but have no pages yet — we will not publish a frame number we cannot source. The scope table above shows exactly what exists.

Are your sizes official platform specifications?

Only where a source is cited. 3240 × 1440 is a community canvas for three 1080 × 1440 tiles; it is a working convention, not a published TikTok spec. The native profile background has no published size we could confirm, so we say so instead of inventing one. The size reference labels every figure.

Is my photo uploaded to your server?

No. The maker decodes the image in the browser tab, draws it on a canvas and cuts it there. There is no upload endpoint, no storage and no third-party script on that page. The privacy note has the details.

Can you unlock a banner option that is missing?

No, and no website can. Whether an account sees a feature is decided by the platform. What you can do is build a three-post banner from ordinary posts — the not-showing guide sorts the symptom and hands over the one step worth taking.

Will one export look right everywhere?

Not necessarily. A three-post banner reads differently on a narrow phone than on a tablet, and some surfaces crop harder than others. Check the preview on your own device, and keep the important part of the image near the centre.

06 Index

Every page on this site

Six content pages and three site pages. If a link is not here, it does not exist yet — there are no empty platform sections and no placeholder URLs.

Direct link: the guide index is the shortest path to every published page, and it is the page to bookmark while the rest of the platforms are still being written.

Sources & methodology 29 entries, each with the limit that comes attached to it

Five grades, and what each one buys

  • Official — comes from TikTok or Google. We read it as narrowly as it is written: a general help page about troubleshooting says nothing about a banner feature, so we do not borrow its authority for one.
  • Third-party study — a named analysis that states its own sample. We repeat its counts as the study's counts, never as ours.
  • Third-party guide — a creator or a tool site explaining what people do. Good for method. Never good for "everyone has this".
  • Screenshot estimate — a number read off a Semrush capture. It is not analytics and it is not clicks.
  • Unverified — nothing solid stands behind it. A claim in this grade is never printed here as settled fact.

What the grade changes on the page

Three habits follow. A profile background is written as something users report, not as something every account has. The three-post method is written as a method, not as a promise that pinning will work for you. And no pixel figure is written as though TikTok had published it.

When a claim rides on one named study, the study's own boundary rides with it: the 603-review count further down comes from an Android-only Google Play sample, so it describes that sample and stops there.

The ledger

Entries S01–S14 were reviewed on 4 November 2026; S15–S22 arrived on 5 November; S23–S28 followed on 7 November with the how-to-get article; S29 came with the size page on 9 November. The limit sits inside the entry rather than in a footnote.
ID Source Level Supports Cannot support
S01 tiktokbanner.cloud Guide How a rival page orders the same subject, and what it tells readers to do. No proof that a feature or a size is official, and no traffic figures.
S02 RepostGrid tool Tool That working splitters exist, and that tool pages hold the "maker" query. Nothing at all about whether the in-app control exists.
S03 RepostGrid three-tile guide Guide The 3240 × 1440 canvas, three tiles of 1080 × 1440, and a right → centre → left posting order. A creator convention, not a published specification, and their interface can change.
S04 Unstar 603-review analysis Study That availability varies between accounts inside one sampled set of Android reviews. Not a worldwide eligibility map, and not a schedule of who gets it when.
S05 Social Age Checker how-to Guide The wording users report seeing, such as Add background and Change background. Not a verified reference for what every device and version shows.
S06 TikTok troubleshooting index Official The official in-app route for reporting a problem. It documents no banner, no background and no rollout.
S07 TikTok developer design guidelines Official That using TikTok's logo, icons and design assets requires permission. Not clearance for this domain, its artwork or its name.
S08 TikTok intellectual property policy Official That brand confusion is a live risk for an unofficial site. It neither legalises nor condemns this domain; that is a separate question.
S09 Google: title links Official One descriptive title per page, and a single clear H1. No ranking promise of any kind.
S10 Google: crawlable links Official Ordinary anchors with descriptive text, rather than navigation that only exists in script. There is no five-links-per-page rule, numeric or otherwise.
S11 Google: image SEO Official Filenames, alt text and captions that say what the image shows. Descriptions do not create image traffic on their own.
S12 Google: FAQ visibility change Official That FAQ rich results are restricted, which is why the questions here are written for a reader first. No rich-result eligibility is claimed anywhere on this site.
S13 Semrush domain overview screenshot (research file, not published) Estimate A rough sense of how large a competitor looked on the day of the capture. Not click data, not a Pages report; small values need rechecking before use.
S14 Competitor homepage screenshot (research file, not published) Screenshot The visible layout of one competitor page. Research only. Never republished as an asset of this site.
S15 SocialBee, TikTok updates roundup Guide A dated roundup (page updated 2 Nov 2026) that lists an Add Background option for profiles. It credits a Threads post, not TikTok. No countries, no dates, no specification.
S16 Brandon Conner (@brandonspam_), 1:07 Guide How the entry is reached on an account that has it, and that the creator's own account does not (3 Oct 2026). One creator, one week in October. A first-hand demonstration, not documentation.
S17 TikTok help search: adding a profile photo Official That the profile editor exists, and Change photo is the documented path for the avatar. No banner, no labels, no eligibility and no rollout are documented here.
S18 TikTok help search: report a problem Official Profile → Menu → Settings and privacy → Report a problem, as the official route. A report is an acknowledgement, not a place in a queue, and it carries no date.
S19 CapCut, TikTok Banner tutorial Guide That producing the image is a separate job from having somewhere to put it. Vendor content. No evidence of availability, and it makes no claim to enable the option.
S20 Google Play / App Store listings Official The only legitimate place to update the app. Listings vary by store and by region, and a listing is not a record of features.
S21 Brandon Conner (@brandonspam_) — banner walkthrough Creator video FIG01, FIG02, FIG04 and FIG06: the profile editor, the pencil entry, the editor with no background row, and a store listing reading Open. One creator, one account, one day. Not a rollout and not a TikTok statement. Frames are cropped and identity-masked with credit; reprint permission is not yet documented.
S22 @mochi_71137 — Change background walkthrough Creator video FIG03, FIG05 and FIG07: the Change background pill, the photo picker, and the Settings and privacy entry. No publication date is visible in the supplied material. The accessibility toggles it shows do not prove the toggles cause anything, and crop/save are not clearly shown. Same reprint caveat as S21.
S23 TikTok developer docs: embed player Official The supported iframe form tiktok.com/player/v1/{video_id}, and that the older embed-videos method is on its way out. Governs embedding only. Silent on banners, and it guarantees no playback in any given region or browser.
S24 @ferriswheellive — banner update clip, 0:17 Creator video VIDEO-02: what the profile editor looks like on an account that cannot find the control. No visible date. One account, one clip, and no claim about why the control is missing. The 17-second clip and its metadata load, but playback could not be triggered from our test environment — so the page links to the post rather than embedding a player that might sit silent.
S25 @s816 — banner tutorial, 0:25 Creator video VIDEO-03: a shorter pass over the same editor and the same background strip. No visible date. A demonstration, not documentation, and nothing here overrides an absent control. Metadata and 25 seconds load, but playback could not be triggered from our test environment, so this is a post link too.
S26 Tongfix — profile banner walkthrough (YouTube) Creator video An alternative host for the same walkthrough, if TikTok's player will not open for a reader. Not embedded here: no live page needs a second host, and it is not a TikTok source to begin with.
S27 Social Age Checker — two UI screenshots Research only Cross-checked the wording of the Change background control and of the Upload photo / Choose from your posts panel. No reprint licence. Neither hot-linked nor republished. Also not a cross-device reference, which is why the article describes positions instead of trusting the captures.
S28 ProfileGridMaker — three-post banner guide Research only Held for the unpublished make-page draft: pin order, and the reason a pinned row reads as one picture. No reprint licence for its three diagrams. Nothing from it appears on a live page; the tiles diagram here is original. Its sizes stay a convention, not a specification.
S29 Moda — TikTok sizes Guide The platform media figures used on /tiktok-banner-size/: video 1080 × 1920 (9:16), avatar 200 × 200 minimum (1:1), covers 1080 × 1920 shown at roughly 3:4 in the grid, carousel 1080 × 1920 with 4–35 images, in-feed ads 1080 × 1920 with a 540 × 960 floor, and the weight ceiling per format. Also the 1080p re-encode ceiling for uploads. Neither a banner spec nor our own measurement. A vendor size guide (page verified 28 August 2026) summarising TikTok For Business and TikTok Support. We read the media figures through it instead of re-fetching each help page, and label them as platform specs for that reason. It says nothing about the native profile background, because no source does. The "roughly 3:4" grid crop is its phrase, which is why the tile figure is graded as a user report here.
Dates do not tick over by themselves. The review date on this site moves only when a person re-checks the sources. Nothing stamps itself "updated" on a timer, and no availability status is generated from a live feed.

Corrections

When a source shifts, or a sentence here claims more than the source allows, the correction wins and the existing copy goes. Where to send one is on the about page.