Meta Ads Preview - Five Placements, No Ad Account
Preview a Facebook or Instagram ad across five placements - no ad account, no campaign, no signup. Real truncation, safe-zone overlays and PNG export.
How to use this tool
Add the creative
Drop in the image or video you plan to run. Feed placements take square, 4:5 or 1.91:1; Stories and Reels are 9:16. The file is read locally and never uploaded.
Paste the ad copy
Fill in the page name, primary text, headline, link description, display URL and call-to-action button. Every field counts against the budget for the placement you are looking at.
Step through the placements
Move across the five tabs. The same copy behaves differently on each: Facebook allows a 40-character headline, Instagram cuts at 27, and Stories show no primary text at all.
Turn on safe zones
For Stories and Reels, the hatched bands mark the areas the progress bar, caption and action rail sit over. Move your logo and legal text inside the dashed frame.
Export for approval
Download a 2x PNG per placement, or copy it to the clipboard. This is the artefact to send a client - the ad in context, not a bare JPG with copy in a spreadsheet.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need an ad account or a campaign to use this?
No. Meta's own preview lives inside Ads Manager and needs a draft ad, an ad account and the right permissions. This page needs none of that - open it, drop in a creative, type the copy, and you have a shareable mockup in under a minute.
Which placements does this preview?
Facebook Feed, Instagram Feed, Instagram Stories, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels. Those five cover the overwhelming majority of Meta ad delivery and are the ones where the creative and copy visibly differ, which is where a preview earns its keep.
How long can Meta ad copy be before it is cut?
Facebook feed ads show roughly 125 characters of primary text before "See more", a 40-character headline and a 30-character link description. Instagram cuts the headline at about 27 characters. The counters in this tool use these per-placement budgets rather than one generic number.
What are safe zones and why do they matter?
Stories and Reels put the platform's own interface on top of your creative: the progress bar and profile row at the top, the reply box or caption and action rail at the bottom and right. Anything you place there is hidden on a real phone, which the overlay shows before you spend money.
Can I preview video ads?
Yes. MP4, MOV and WebM files play inside every placement at the correct ratio, muted and looping. The PNG export captures the frame showing at that moment, so pause on the frame you want in the mockup before you download it.
Is this affiliated with Meta?
No. It is an independent mockup tool that redraws the layout of these surfaces so you can judge your own creative and copy against them. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta, and it draws its own icons rather than using their brand assets.
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