YouTube Banner Maker — Free Online Tool

The YouTube Banner Maker builds channel art at 2560x1440, the size YouTube requires, with the safe area marked so the important part of your design survives being cropped.

Cropping is the entire difficulty with YouTube banners and the reason most look broken on at least one device. YouTube displays the same single image at wildly different crops: a TV shows nearly the full 2560x1440, a desktop browser shows a wide letterbox strip from the middle, and a phone shows only the central 1546x423. Anything outside that central region — which is barely a quarter of the total height — is invisible to mobile viewers, who are the majority of the audience on most channels.

The practical consequence is that your channel name, tagline, and upload schedule all have to sit inside that central safe area, while the outer region should carry nothing but background, texture, or colour that extends the design gracefully. A banner designed edge-to-edge in a general-purpose image editor almost always ends up with its text sliced in half on a phone.

The other constraint is file size: YouTube caps banner uploads at 6 MB, which a 2560x1440 PNG can exceed easily, so exporting as JPG is usually the right call for photographic backgrounds.

The banner is composed on canvas in your browser and downloads directly — no upload, no watermark, no account.

Our YouTube Banner Maker is completely free to use with no signup required. For this tool, processing runs in your browser — your files and data stay on your device and are not uploaded to our servers.

Whether you are a developer, designer, student, or business owner, this tool is designed to save you time and make your workflow more efficient. Bookmark this page to access it whenever you need it — it will always be free.