Crop Image to 9:16 for Stories and Reels

Instagram Stories, TikTok videos, YouTube Shorts, and Snapchat all use the 9:16 tall portrait ratio (1080×1920 px). This is the inverse of the standard 16:9 widescreen — designed for phones held vertically. A landscape or square photo needs to be cropped to this tall ratio to fill the screen without black bars.

The 9:16 preset in this tool matches the full-screen portrait format used by every major vertical video and story platform. Crop your photo to fill the entire phone screen, position the key subject in the upper third for best visibility under UI overlays, and download.

Output as JPEG for photos or PNG for graphics. Batch mode processes multiple story images at once — upload several photos, apply the 9:16 crop, and download all results. Everything runs in your browser with no upload wait time.