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YouTube Title Length Checker

Paste a title and see its character count against a 55-character guideline. YouTube allows 100 characters, but most places shorten long titles, so the words up front do the work.

  • Free, no account needed
  • Runs in your browser
  • No daily limit
Check a title
ExampleTwo drafts of one title, counted here

Draft 1

I finally did it: my first sourdough starter, and what I wish I had known

73 / 55 characters

Draft 2

Sourdough starter in 5 days: what I wish I had known

52 / 55 characters

Both say the same thing. The second puts the topic first and fits the guideline.

Check a title

Counted in your browser on every keystroke

0 / 55 characters

Nothing you type here leaves your browser, so there is no daily limit.

  • Before you paste it into YouTube Studio:

    • Topic in the first few words, so it survives any cut
    • No angle brackets: YouTube will not save them
    • Emojis can count as two characters in this counter
    • Hard limit is 100 characters; 55 is a comfort zone

Know the tool

What the checker does, and does not

It is a character counter with one opinion built in. Knowing its limits makes it more useful.

  • Counts as you type

    The number updates on every keystroke, turns green up to 55 characters and red above it. Spaces and punctuation count, just as they do in YouTube Studio.

  • A guideline, not a guarantee

    Passing 55 does not promise a title will show in full everywhere, and failing it is not an error: YouTube allows 100. It tells you when to check the front of the title harder.

  • Works for any title

    Nothing is saved or sent anywhere: the count happens in your browser. Paste drafts from the AI title tools, a spreadsheet or your notes and compare them side by side.

Why 55

Where titles get shortened, and why the front matters

The same title appears in several places: the home feed, search results, the suggested column next to a video, the Shorts player and notifications. Each has a different amount of room, and on a phone the room is smallest. YouTube cuts by available width, not by a fixed character count, so no number is exact; 55 characters is a practical point to start worrying.

What gets cut is always the end. That makes the order of words more important than the total: a long title with the topic and the hook up front survives shortening, while a short one that opens with “You won’t believe” says nothing until its last word. YouTube’s systems read the whole title regardless; it is the person scrolling who sees only the beginning.

A useful routine: write three versions, paste each one here, and keep the one whose first 40 characters say the most. For faceless channels where the thumbnail carries no face, the title has to do even more of the explaining. And when you plan a whole channel, the channel name generator saves you from repeating a long name in every title.

Shorter, same click

Six edits that shorten a title without losing the click

Run your draft through these before you reach for a thesaurus.

  1. Make the first 40 characters stand alone

    Read only the first 40 characters out loud. If they do not say what the video is about, the shortened version on a phone will not either.

  2. Spend characters on specifics

    A number, a name or a result (“in 7 days”, “for under $50”) earns its space. Words like “amazing” or “ultimate” do not.

  3. Cut the channel name

    Your channel name already appears under the title. Repeating it at the end of every title wastes the characters most likely to be seen.

  4. Avoid all caps

    Capital letters are wider, so they get cut sooner, and a fully capitalized title reads as shouting. Capitalize one word for emphasis at most.

  5. Promise only what the video delivers

    A title that oversells gets clicks and then early exits, which tells YouTube the video disappointed people. Match the title to the first minute.

  6. Pair it with the thumbnail

    The title and thumbnail are read together. Let the thumbnail show the situation and the title add what the image cannot, rather than repeating the same words.

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FAQ8 answers

YouTube title questions

Limits, cut-offs, emojis, banned characters and changing titles later.

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YouTube accepts up to 100 characters. That is the hard limit in YouTube Studio. This checker uses 55 characters as its guideline instead, because the full 100 rarely shows anywhere: long titles get shortened with an ellipsis in feeds, search and the mobile app.

It is a common rule of thumb for where titles start getting cut on smaller layouts, not a number YouTube publishes. The real cut-off depends on the screen, the surface and the width of the letters, so a title full of capital Ws and Ms gets cut sooner than one with i and l.

In this counter many emojis count as two, because of how browsers store them, and YouTube may count them differently. They also take more space on screen than a letter. If a title with emojis is near the limit, check it in a YouTube Studio preview before publishing.

YouTube Studio rejects angle brackets, the less-than and greater-than signs, so a title that uses them as decoration will not save. Emojis, accented letters and symbols such as the vertical bar are accepted, though symbols can look cluttered once a title is shortened.

Yes. In the Shorts player the title sits over the bottom of the video in a small space, so keep the subject in the first few words. If you are scripting the Short as well, the YouTube Short script generator helps you match the opening line to the title.

For videos people find through search, yes: “Sourdough starter in 5 days” beats “I finally did it: sourdough starter”. For browse and suggested traffic, curiosity matters more, but the topic should still appear before the likely cut-off so a scrolling viewer knows what the video is about.

Yes, at any time in YouTube Studio, with no penalty for editing. If a video gets impressions but few clicks, try a new title and compare the click-through rate after a week or two. Change one thing at a time, otherwise you will not know what worked.

It can suggest options. The AI YouTube generator drafts three titles plus a description from a short summary of your video. Paste each option here to check the length, then pick the one that matches what the thumbnail shows without repeating it word for word.

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