Preview TikTok video posts with caption, hashtags, and audio label. Check text overlay safe zones and character limits for descriptions.
You assemble a TikTok post the way the upload screen expects it: caption with hashtags, and the audio label that rides below it. The tool renders the whole thing inside a phone-frame For You feed mock, with the platform's own layout - username, two-line caption, link-styled hashtags, the audio ticker, and the right-side action rail - and overlays the safe zones where that UI covers the video frame. The surprise most people hit first: the feed shows only the first two lines of a caption, and the 2,200-character limit is the upload box, not what anyone sees in-feed.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
Caption: "10 things I wish I knew before starting my first garden #gardening #beginner #gardentips #diy #outdoors" Audio label: Original sound - @gardenwithjo Video: 9:16 portrait
Expected output
Character check: 103 of 2,200 - within limit. Hashtags: 5, rendered as link text. Feed preview: caption wraps to two lines, then a 'Show more' toggle; the audio label 'Original sound - @gardenwithjo' sits below the caption. Safe-zone guides mark the right action rail, the bottom caption block, and the top tab bar as covered areas of the video frame.
The body text is 55 characters and the hashtag segment is 48, so the whole caption is 103 characters - comfortably inside the 2,200-character upload limit. The preview still cuts it after two lines because in-feed truncation is independent of the limit.
The tool rebuilds the For You feed layout around your post: a bold username line, a caption that wraps to two lines and then gains a 'Show more' toggle, hashtags styled as link text, and the audio strip pinned under the caption showing 'Original sound - @handle' or 'Song - Artist'. The video frame occupies the 9:16 portrait area the feed shows behind this chrome.
Counting mirrors the upload box: every character, space, and line break counts toward the 2,200-character limit, and each emoji counts as one. Hashtags are extracted as tokens that start with '#', and the tool reports their count and their share of the total length. Safe-zone guide lines sit where the right action rail, bottom caption block, and top tab bar typically cover the frame.
The 2,200-character figure is the limit of the upload field, not the feed. In the For You feed, TikTok shows the first two lines of a caption - roughly the first 100-120 characters depending on screen width - followed by a 'Show more' link. Scrollers see only that opening, so the hook and the call to action belong in the first line.
No. The preview renders the post chrome - caption, hashtags, audio label, and cover frame - plus the zones where TikTok's UI covers the picture. It cannot play your video file or render text baked into the video itself. Position on-video text against the safe-zone guides yourself, or upload the finished export as the cover to check it in context.
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