Score any YouTube title 0-100 against documented best practices. Compare up to 5 variants side-by-side.
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Generate 10 click-worthy titles with AI, then paste your favourite here to score it.
Other YouTube tools generate titles. This one evaluates them. Paste a candidate, get a 0-100 score against documented best practices, and see exactly which signals contributed — length, structure, angle, density of power words, all-caps and punctuation patterns, active-verb placement, and more.
The score is a heuristic, not a prediction. It catches the obvious mistakes — titles that get truncated in SERP, titles in ALL CAPS, titles padded with three power words — and rewards the patterns that correlate with higher CTR across niches.
| Signal | Direction |
|---|---|
| Length in the 40-70 char sweet spot | +25 |
| Length over 70 chars (truncation) | -15 to -25 |
| Contains a number | +8 |
| ALL CAPS or 2+ all-caps words | -20 to -25 |
| !!! / ?!?! punctuation bursts | -12 |
| 3+ power words (clickbait risk) | -10 |
| Clear angle (how-to / listicle / curiosity / etc.) | +6 |
| Question format | +4 |
| Active verb in first 5 words | +3 |
| High stop-word ratio (generic title) | -6 |
| Proper noun + number (specificity) | +3 |
It's a weighted sum of measurable signals — length vs the 40-70 char sweet spot, presence of a number, all-caps and excessive punctuation detection, power-word density, detected angle (curiosity / listicle / how-to / etc.), active verb in the first 5 words, and stop-word ratio. Every signal that contributes to your score is shown with a one-line explanation. No black box.
Above 70 chars, YouTube truncates titles with an ellipsis in search results, browse feeds, and the related-videos column — viewers can't read what's past the cutoff. Below 30 chars, you usually can't pack enough keyword + curiosity to compete. The 40-70 range maximises full-display rate without sacrificing density.
No. The scorer rewards titles that follow documented best practices, but the best title is the most accurate one written most interestingly — not the most rule-compliant. A contrarian title that scores 65 can outperform a rule-perfect 90 if it's honest to the video. Use the score to catch obvious mistakes, not as the final word.
We classify your title into one of seven angles: how-to, listicle, curiosity, comparison, story, review, contrarian — based on its grammatical structure. Having a clear angle is a positive signal because YouTube's topical classifier places videos in format clusters; titles without a clear angle get flattened.
Yes — click 'Add another variant' (up to 5 at a time) to score multiple candidates side-by-side. The ranked summary at the top sorts by score. This is the recommended workflow: generate 10 titles with the AI Title Generator, paste your top 3-5 here, pick the winner.
Power-word density is a proxy, not a final verdict. A title with 'shocking' and 'truth' can be honest if the video delivers; a title with neither can still oversell. The scorer flags the risk pattern — you decide whether your video actually delivers on the implied promise.
No. Scoring is entirely client-side JavaScript — your input never leaves the browser. We don't log titles, don't cache them, don't send them anywhere.
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