C:\> RUN PIXELSERP.EXE

PROGRAM: LINKEDIN POST PREVIEW

LinkedIn Post Preview: Find Your Fold.

Free LinkedIn post preview: write or paste a post and see exactly where LinkedIn cuts it off with ...more on desktop and iPhone, measured in pixels, with a live 3,000 character counter.

Write your post
How it looks in the feed
Measured with your device's system font at LinkedIn's 14px size, in a 523px desktop column and a 358px iPhone column, folded after three lines. LinkedIn does not publish its cutoff, so treat a line either side as normal.

How to use this LinkedIn post preview

01

Paste your draft

Write or paste the post, line breaks and all. The preview and the 3,000 character meter update as you type.

02

Check both folds

See the post as it appears in the desktop feed and the iPhone app, cut after three lines with ...more, and how many characters each shows.

03

Tighten the hook

If your opening line runs past the fold, shorten it or move the line break until it fits on the phone too, then copy the post.

Why the fold is measured, not counted

Most LinkedIn advice says your post gets cut at 210 characters. It does not, quite. LinkedIn shows three lines and then ...more, so the cutoff depends on how wide your words are and where you break lines. A hook full of wide capitals folds early; one with short words and no breaks can run well past 210.

This preview wraps your text the way the feed does: your device's system font at 14px with a 20px line height, in the 523px column of the desktop feed and the 358px column of a 390pt iPhone, with room left on the third line for the ...more link. That is the same pixel approach behind the SERP simulator and the subject line tester.

It runs entirely in your browser and never connects to LinkedIn. Sharing a link in the post? Check how its card looks first with the Open Graph checker.

Common questions

In the feed, LinkedIn shows the first three lines of a post and then a ...more link. That works out to roughly 200 to 220 characters on desktop and around 140 on a phone, but the real number depends on how wide your letters are and where your line breaks fall. LinkedIn does not publish a fixed cutoff, which is why this tool measures the wrapped lines instead of counting characters.
A LinkedIn post can be up to 3,000 characters, including spaces, line breaks, hashtags and links. Comments are capped at 1,250 characters. The meter above turns amber near the post limit and red once you go over it.
Yes. Every line break starts a new line, and a blank line between paragraphs uses up one of the three visible lines. A short punchy first line followed by a break can work well, but two blank lines above the fold leave room for very little else.
LinkedIn sets post text in each device's own system font: San Francisco on iPhone and Mac, Segoe UI on Windows, Roboto on Android. Those fonts have different letter widths, so the fold can move by a few characters from one device to another. This preview uses your device's system font, the same one LinkedIn uses for you, at LinkedIn's 14px size and column widths.
The hook: the one line that makes someone tap ...more. A specific claim, a number or a surprising result tends to work better than a greeting. Check the iPhone preview in particular, since it shows the fewest characters and most LinkedIn reading happens on phones.
No. It runs entirely in your browser and never connects to LinkedIn. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or saved. Copy the post when you are happy with it and paste it into LinkedIn yourself.
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