Instagram Stories (and Reels covers) use a 1080×1920-pixel canvas, which is a 9:16 vertical aspect ratio built for phone screens. This tool locks the canvas to 1080×1920 and exports the PNG at exactly that size with canvas.toBlob, so there is no cropping or re-scaling. Keep the file a reasonable size and use a common format; Instagram re-compresses uploads, so colours can shift slightly. This size is a current best estimate — Instagram can change specs without notice, so verify on your live Story.

On a 1080×1920 Story, Instagram’s interface covers the top ~250 pixels — the profile photo, username, timestamp and the story progress bars — and the bottom ~250 pixels, where the reply bar, share button and the link / CTA sticker area sit (Story ads reserve even more, about 340 px, for the CTA button). That leaves a central 1080×1420 content-safe band for text, faces, prices and CTAs, and it’s best to keep important elements about 65 px in from the left and right edges too, since phones can crop them. This tool draws all three zones as toggleable, preview-only overlays so you can check your layout before exporting. They are guidance, not a guarantee — the exact pixels vary by device and Instagram changes them without notice.

Privacy is structural. The Story is drawn on an HTML canvas in your browser and the PNG is produced locally with canvas.toBlob — there is no server, upload, database or logging in the processing path, and no CDN. When you add a background or layer photo, the browser creates an in-memory object URL and draws straight from it; that URL is revoked automatically when you replace the image, delete the layer, reset, or leave the page, so nothing lingers. The tool works offline once cached, and closing the tab discards your design. The only optional network use anywhere on the site is consent-gated advertising, which never sees your images. The safe-zone guides are drawn only in the preview and are never included in the exported file.

This is a design tool, not an Instagram integration. It has no access to your account and cannot post — you export a 1080×1920 PNG and upload it in the Instagram app through the normal Story flow. The decorative “stickers” here are local graphics: emoji rendered as text plus simple shapes (pills, dots, bars, frames). They are NOT Instagram’s interactive stickers — polls, questions, link, music, countdown, location and quiz stickers only exist inside the Instagram app and must be added there after you upload your image. Text renders with your device’s system font stack and your device’s emoji set, so type and emoji can look slightly different on another machine.