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Free tools · TITLES
Count a title against YouTube's 100-character limit, preview where it's cut, check the hashtags.
0 / 100 characters — 100 left
Your title appears here.
0 / 5,000 characters · 0 hashtags
Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent or stored.
This YouTube title checker counts your title against YouTube's 100-character limit as you type, shows an approximate preview of where a long title gets cut short, and lists any hashtags. Paste the description too and it checks that against the 5,000-character limit and YouTube's hashtag rules.
It runs in your browser and saves nothing. Use it while you write, before you paste the title into YouTube Studio.
● HOW IT WORKS
Type or paste a title — and, if you like, the description.
See the count against YouTube's 100-character title and 5,000-character description limits.
Check the approximate preview and the hashtags before you publish.
Free, with no sign-up. It runs in your browser; nothing you paste or upload is sent to VidMyth or stored. Next: Get an optimised title, description and tags.
YouTube's Help Center sets the limits: "Video titles have a character limit of 100 characters", and descriptions "have a character limit of 5,000 characters" (YouTube Help). Both also refuse invalid characters. Emoji count as one character each in this checker, as a person would count them.
Hashtags have their own rules: up to 3 can appear by the video's title, and if a video has more than 60, YouTube ignores every one of them (YouTube Help). The checker warns you before you cross that line.
A hundred characters is the limit, not the target. Long titles are cut short in search results, beside other videos and on phones, and where exactly depends on the screen, so the words that make someone click have to come first. The preview cuts at about 60 characters to show the idea; treat it as approximate.
Put the subject and the promise at the start, keep one clear idea per title, and let the thumbnail carry what the title doesn't say. The YouTube SEO tools write a search-shaped title, description and tags from your script; how to get views on YouTube explains why packaging matters as much as it does.
Shorts follow the same 100-character title limit, but far less of the title shows while a Short plays, so the first few words carry almost all of it. Write the title as a promise of what happens in the Short rather than a label for it, and keep any hashtags for the description, where they don't push the important words out of view.
For both Shorts and long videos, check the title alongside the thumbnail: the two should say different things that add up, not the same thing twice.
The opening lines of a description show before the "more" link, so they should say what the video is about in plain words a viewer would search. Chapters (timestamps starting at 0:00), links and credits can follow. Keep hashtags few and relevant — a long block of them reads as spam and, past the limit, does nothing at all.
● QUESTIONS
100 characters. YouTube's Help Center states that video titles have a character limit of 100 characters and can't include invalid characters.
Up to 5,000 characters. The first lines matter most, because they show before the "more" link in search and on the watch page.
Short enough that the important words survive being cut. There is no official ideal length; put the subject and the hook in the first few words and keep the title to one clear idea.
Up to 3 can show by the title, and a video with more than 60 hashtags has all of them ignored. A few relevant ones are plenty.
Yes, an emoji uses up part of the limit. This checker counts each emoji as one character, the way a person reads it, and YouTube may count some emoji as more than one — so leave a little room if your title uses several.
No. It runs in your browser; nothing you type is sent to VidMyth or stored.
● KEEP GOING
YouTube SEO tools that read your actual script, not just your title: a tag generator plus an optimised title, a search-shaped description and long-tail terms.
To get views on YouTube, make videos a specific audience wants, then package them so the right people click: a clear title and an honest thumbnail, an opening that delivers on both, and a video that holds attention to the end.
Good YouTube video ideas answer a question viewers already have, in a way the existing videos don't.
Paste a YouTube link and save its thumbnail in every size YouTube keeps.
Paste a script and see how long it runs when read aloud — and whether it fits a Short.