YouTube title checker — length limit and live preview

What is the YouTube title character limit?

According to YouTube Help, video titles can be up to 100 characters. That's the hard limit: YouTube Studio won't accept more. But the limit and what people actually see are different things — most layouts show two lines or less, so a long title gets cut with an ellipsis well before 100 characters.

Where exactly it's cut depends on the width of the letters, not just their number: “WWW” is much wider than “iii”. That's why this checker renders your title with a similar font and lets the browser break the lines, instead of guessing from a character count.

Writing titles that survive the cut

Put the hook and the main keyword at the start, where every layout shows them; leave the details for the end. Use capitals for one or two words at most. On Shorts, the title often shares space with the video itself, so short and concrete wins.

If you're unsure between two ideas, write both and switch between A and B: reading them in the same card makes the stronger one obvious. Then make the first seconds of the video deliver what the title promises.

Turn the title into an animation

A good title can also open the video. The Shorts hook headline and the animated title templates take your words and animate them in 16:9, 9:16 or square, ready to export on a transparent background for your editor.