Resize any image to YouTube banner size, 2560×1440 or the 2048×1152 minimum, cropped or with a border. Nothing is uploaded.
The YouTube banner size to use is 2560×1440 pixels (16:9), with 2048×1152 as the smallest YouTube accepts and 6 MB as the largest file. The banner, also called channel art, is the wide image across the top of your channel. The tricky part is not the size itself but the fact that YouTube shows a different part of the same image on a TV, a computer and a phone. Only a small box in the middle is shown everywhere. This YouTube banner size converter gives you both correct sizes with one tap and keeps the centre of your picture in the centre. Below you find the exact numbers from YouTube’s help page, a drawing of the safe area to scale, what to do with an old 1024×576 banner, and how the tool decides what to crop.
Your image is decoded in the browser and phone photos are turned upright from their orientation tag. Then the tool draws it onto a blank canvas of exactly 2560×1440 (or 2048×1152, if you tap the minimum size):
The canvas is saved as JPG at 92% quality, or as PNG or WebP if you change the format under More options. The file is named like banner-2560x1440.jpg.
Worked example (computed with the tool’s formula). An old 1024×576 banner and the 2560×1440 size have the same 16:9 shape, so Fill and crop scales it by max(2560 ÷ 1024, 1440 ÷ 576) = 2.5 and cuts nothing. Every pixel is stretched evenly to 2.5 times its size: the layout stays the same, but fine text gets softer. A 3000×4000 upright phone photo is different: it is scaled by max(0.853, 0.36) = 0.853 to 2560×3413, and only the middle 1440 rows stay, about 42% of the photo.
Drop, choose or paste (Ctrl+V) your design or photo. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, iPhone HEIC, GIF and BMP open.
Tap YouTube banner 2560×1440 or Minimum banner 2048×1152. Then choose Fill and crop (centred) or Fit inside (add border) with a border colour.
Click Download for a JPG, or pick PNG under More options. Then upload it as your banner in YouTube Studio.
One tap for 2560×1440 or YouTube’s 2048×1152 minimum, both in the 16:9 shape YouTube asks for.
Drop a 1024×576 banner and it comes out at an accepted size, scaled up evenly with no stretching.
Fill and crop cuts evenly from the edges, so a design built around the centre keeps its safe area in place.
The banner is made in your browser and never uploaded. No account, no watermark, no limit on use.
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| Aspect ratio | 16:9 |
| Usual banner size | 2560×1440 pixels |
| Minimum upload size | 2048×1152 pixels |
| Safe area for text and logos, at 2048×1152 | 1235×338 pixels, centred |
| Safe area at 2560×1440 | about 1546×423 pixels, centred |
| Maximum file size | 6 MB |
Why do many guides say 1546×423? Scale YouTube’s 1235×338 safe area by 2560 ÷ 2048 = 1.25 and you get about 1544×423. The widely used 1546×423 is the same box, rounded. Either way the rule is the same: the safe area is only about 18% of the whole banner.
You upload one banner for all devices. YouTube then shows a different slice of it:
So the honest answer to “YouTube banner size for mobile” is: the same 2560×1440 file, with everything important inside the centre safe area. Fill the rest with a background colour, a pattern or a photo that can be cut off without losing meaning. In YouTube Studio you also see a preview and can adjust the crop when you upload.
Older templates and tutorials give 1024×576 as the YouTube banner size. That is now too small: YouTube’s minimum is 2048×1152, exactly twice as wide and twice as tall. The good news is that 1024×576 is already 16:9, so this tool works as a YouTube banner size 1024x576 converter online without cutting anything:
| Output size | Scale | Cropped away | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2048×1152 (minimum) | 2× | Nothing | Accepted, a little soft |
| 2560×1440 | 2.5× | Nothing | Accepted, a little softer |
Enlarging cannot add real detail, so thin text and small logos may look blurry on a TV. If you still have the original design (Canva, Photoshop, PowerPoint), export it again at 2560×1440 for the sharpest result. If not, the converted file is a perfectly good stopgap. A “1024x576 for mobile” banner does not exist; mobile uses the centre of the same file.
A normal photo is a very different shape from a banner. The table shows how much of common photo shapes survives Fill and crop to 16:9. With Fit inside, the same percentage is how much of the banner your photo covers; the rest is border.
| Photo shape | Example | Kept with Fill and crop | Photo size with Fit inside at 2560×1440 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:9 | 1920×1080 video frame | 100% | 2560×1440 (no border) |
| 3:2 | 6000×4000 camera photo | 84% | 2160×1440 |
| 4:3 | 4000×3000 phone photo, sideways | 75% | 1920×1440 |
| 1:1 | Square logo or post | 56% | 1440×1440 |
| 3:4 | 3000×4000 upright phone photo | 42% | 1080×1440 |
| 9:16 | Phone screenshot | 32% | 810×1440 |
Remember that only the middle strip is safe. Even a 16:9 photo that keeps 100% will show only its centre on phones. A landscape photo with the subject in the middle works best. A square logo is usually better with Fit inside on a matching background colour than cropped.
The tool saves JPG at 92% by default. JPG is right for photos and gradients and stays light. Open More options to choose PNG, which keeps flat colours, logos and small text perfectly crisp. PNG files of photos can get large, so look at the size on the result line; if it is near 6 MB, use JPG or lower the Quality slider. WebP is offered as well, but for the upload JPG or PNG is the safe choice.
How big will a JPG banner be? We have not measured banners specifically. As a rough guide, 2560×1440 has 4 times the pixels of a 1280×720 thumbnail, and our measured 1280×720 JPG thumbnails from a photo were about 90 to 110 KB, so a JPG banner from a similar photo should be far under 6 MB.
The output is exactly 2560×1440 or 2048×1152 pixels every time, because the tool draws onto a canvas of that exact size. Limits to know:
Typical banner resizers and makers upload your image to their server first. This one works entirely in your browser: the image is decoded by the browser, drawn onto a canvas of the exact banner size with high-quality smoothing, and saved by the browser’s own encoder. Your channel art and photos never leave your device, and after the page has loaded it works offline.
There are no templates, stickers or “auto design” here, and that is on purpose: the tool does one job and tells you exactly how. The scale factor and the centred crop are the simple formulas on this page, so you can predict the result. It also handles what most people actually have, such as an old 1024×576 banner, an iPhone HEIC photo or a square logo, and up to 30 images at once with a ZIP download. Copy link with these settings, under More options, keeps your size and fit choice in a link.
For each image the tool reads its width and height after turning it upright, computes the scale and the centred position, and after saving it measures the new file size in bytes. The result line shows the size before and after and the pixel size; Copy summary copies that text.
What we do not do: we don’t detect faces or text, we don’t check whether your design fits the safe area, we don’t add or move any elements, and we don’t contact YouTube. We don’t store your images or collect data about them.
| VidHaul | Typical upload-based sites | |
|---|---|---|
| Upload needed | No, it runs on your device | Yes, the image goes to their server |
| Sizes | 2560×1440 and 2048×1152, exact | Usually similar presets |
| Watermark | Never | Sometimes on free plans |
| Sign-up | Not needed | Often needed to download |
| Works offline after loading | Yes | No |
| Privacy | Image never leaves your device | Image is usually stored on their server for a while |
| How the crop is chosen | Centred, formula shown on this page | Varies, often not explained |
For any other custom size, use the image resizer.
Only use images you own or have the right to use in your channel art.
Use a 16:9 image of 2560×1440 pixels. YouTube’s minimum is 2048×1152 pixels and the file must be 6 MB or smaller.
There is one banner for all devices. Upload a 2560×1440 image and keep text and logos inside the centre safe area, about 1546×423 pixels, which every screen shows.
There is no separate mobile banner. Phones show a strip from the middle of the same image, so keep the important parts inside the centre safe area.
Not directly: it is smaller than the 2048×1152 minimum. Drop it here and pick 2048×1152 or 2560×1440 to make it acceptable, but enlarged text will look softer.
Yes. Open More options and choose PNG. PNG keeps flat colours and text crisp but is bigger than JPG, so check that it stays under 6 MB.
2560×1440 pixels is the usual size, 2048×1152 the minimum. YouTube gives the safe area as 1235×338 pixels at the minimum size.
Yes. It converts any image to 2560×1440 or 2048×1152 as JPG, PNG or WebP, with Fill and crop or Fit inside.
YouTube banner ka size 2560×1440 pixels rakhein, minimum 2048×1152 hai aur file 6 MB se chhoti honi chahiye. Text aur logo beech ke safe area mein rakhein, taaki mobile par bhi dikhe.