Title Analyzer
Type a title and see the character count, where each surface cuts it, and the readability problems that quietly cost clicks — shouting capitals, punctuation pile-ups and repeated words. Every check is a fixed rule you can read, not a score from a model.
Start typing to see where your title gets cut.
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What this tool actually checks
It does not predict rankings and it does not give your title a score. It does two things: shows how much of the title survives on each surface where YouTube displays it, and runs six fixed checks against the text. Everything after a cut is invisible, so any hook, number or payoff you put there is wasted.
The six checks, and the exact rule behind each
No model is involved and nothing is guessed — the same title always produces the same result, and every warning traces back to one of these thresholds:
| Check | Warns when |
|---|---|
| Length | Under 20 characters, or over 70 |
| Truncation | The title is cut on any of the four surfaces |
| Capitalization | Two or more words in full capitals, or capitals are over half the letters |
| Punctuation | A repeated !! or ??, or more than two ! and ? in total |
| Repeated words | Any word of four letters or more appears twice (common words excluded) |
| Readability | More than 14 words, or any single word over 14 characters |
These are conventions rather than laws. A title that trips a check is not broken — occasionally breaking one deliberately is exactly right. The point is to break it on purpose.
Front-load the part that earns the click
Because the sidebar and mobile cut earliest, the first forty characters are the only ones you can rely on. Put the specific, surprising or numeric part there and let the qualifiers trail off the end — "$0 to $10k in 90 days — the exact system I used" survives truncation far better than "The exact system I used to go from $0 to $10k in 90 days".
Approximate cut-off points
| Surface | Roughly cuts at |
|---|---|
| Desktop feed | 70 characters |
| Search results | 60 characters |
| Mobile | 45 characters |
| Suggested sidebar | 40 characters |
| Hard limit YouTube accepts | 100 characters |
These are approximations. YouTube truncates by pixel width rather than character count, so a title in capitals runs out of room sooner than the same length in lower case.
Common questions
How many characters can a YouTube title be?
The hard limit is 100 characters — YouTube will not accept more. But the limit that matters is where your title gets visually cut, which happens far earlier on some surfaces.
Why do the previews cut at different points?
Each surface gives a title a different amount of room. A sidebar suggestion has far less space than the desktop home feed, and mobile sits somewhere between the two.
Are these cut-off points exact?
No, and nothing that claims to be is telling the truth. YouTube truncates by pixel width, so a title full of capitals and wide letters cuts earlier than one full of narrow ones. Treat these as guidance, not a guarantee.
Does a shorter title rank better?
There is no reliable evidence for that. What a shorter title does is survive truncation, so the part that persuades someone to click is still visible. That is a click-through argument, not a ranking one.