Resize an image for an Instagram story

Resize any image to exactly 1080×1920 for an Instagram story, free and in your browser.

Set exact pixels, or pick a preset for a platform.

or drop them here HEIC, JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, SVG and ICO or paste with Ctrl+V
    PDF
    JPG · PNG · WebP · Text · Word
    Word
    PDF · Text
    Convert to

    Your files are processed by your own browser and never sent to a server.

    What size is an Instagram story?

    1080×1920 pixels, which is 9:16. 1080×1920 is 9:16, the shape of a phone screen held upright, and it is what a story is displayed at edge to edge. Anything else is either letterboxed with a background colour or cropped to fit.

    The thing that catches people out

    The top and bottom of a story are covered by the interface: your profile row at the top, the reply box at the bottom. Roughly 250 pixels at each end are unreliable. Keep text out of those bands and the story reads on every phone rather than on yours.

    What an Instagram story does to it afterwards

    A story is 1080x1920 but almost none of that is usable. The top and bottom roughly 250 pixels each are covered by the profile row, the timer bars, the reply box and the system clock, and on a phone with a notch the top intrusion is worse. Keep anything readable inside the central 1080x1420 and you will be safe everywhere. Stories are also re-encoded aggressively and shown for fifteen seconds, so fine detail is wasted effort in a way it is not on a feed post.

    What the crop takes off

    Nine by sixteen against a landscape photograph is the most violent crop on this site: about 58% of the width goes, leaving a strip down the middle. A portrait photo is nearly a straight fit. If landscape is all you have, contain on the hub and a deliberate background beats losing both ends of the picture.

    Questions about an Instagram story

    How much of the 1080x1920 can I actually use?

    Less than you would think. The top 250 pixels or so carry the profile row, the timer bars and the system clock, and the bottom 250 hold the reply box and the share controls; on a phone with a notch the top intrusion is worse again. Keep anything readable inside a central 1080x1420 and it is safe on every device. The rest is still visible, it is just not a place to put words.

    Do stories need the same quality as a feed post?

    No, and spending effort there is mostly wasted. A story is re-encoded hard, shown for a few seconds and then gone, so fine detail and careful gradients do not survive and would not be noticed if they did. What does matter is contrast and size: text that reads at a glance on a phone held at arm's length, which in practice means much larger type than a feed post needs.

    What parts of a story are covered up?

    The top and the bottom, by more than people expect. The profile row and progress bars sit over roughly the top 250 pixels, and the reply box and send controls over the bottom 250. That leaves a central region of about 1080 by 1420 that is reliably visible on every phone. A price, a date, a call to action goes inside that band, and the full 1920 is best treated as a background that bleeds off the edges.

    Other sizes

    Or any dimensions, or compress.