See your title before you upload.

A YouTube title does three jobs at once. It has to be readable at a glance, it has to make a specific promise, and it has to survive being truncated in two different places before anyone sees it. This tool focuses on the third one because the other two are taste — and taste is hard to QA on a checklist.

The numbers we use:

• ~55 characters— mobile home feed and Subscriptions feed. This is the most important number because it's where most discovery happens.
• ~70 characters — desktop search results. Slightly more generous, but still below the limit.
• 100 characters— YouTube's hard limit. The full title only appears on the watch page once the viewer is already there.

These are approximations, not guarantees — YouTube tweaks the truncation logic for different viewport sizes, languages, and tests. But the "under 55 characters is safe" rule-of-thumb has held for years.

A pattern that works for almost any niche: Hook + context, split by a colon, dash, or pipe.

The hook goes first, lives inside the 55-character window, and must make sense without the second half. The context goes after the separator, lives in the 55-to-70 range, and can be safely truncated.

Real-world examples:

• How a $15 mic changed my podcast — a hook that works on its own.
• I tried the no-buy year challenge : here's what actually got cheaper — context after the colon adds detail without being essential.

The right-hand checklist in the tool isn't a grade, it's a friendly nudge. The four rules behind it:

1. Stay under 55 characters unless you've really earned it. The feed is where click-through rate is decided.
2. Don't open with a filler word. "The", "A", "An", "My", and "How" without a noun all dilute the first impression. Start with the most specific word in the title.
3. No ALL CAPS shouting. One capitalized word is fine. A whole word in caps to draw the eye is a 1990s yellow-tape trick that the algorithm learned to mistrust.
4. Include a number, claim, or specific noun. "$15" "in 24 hours" "7 ways" "free" — concrete content makes a title easier to decide on.

A title without its thumbnail is like a punchline without the set-up. Upload your draft thumbnail into the preview area — if the title and thumbnail together don't make a viewer want to click, neither one is finished.

The trick most channels miss: the title should be the part the thumbnail can't show. If your thumbnail already has the claim in big text, the title should add the detail. If your thumbnail is a still from the video, the title is doing the claim.

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