YouTube Title Counter
Draft your title against the 100-character cap — while writing the part that matters to fit the ~70 characters that actually survive truncation in search and suggested videos.
100 of 100 remaining
The cap and the fold
One hundred characters is what YouTube accepts; roughly seventy is what viewers reliably see. Write to both: a front-loaded core that works alone at ~70 ("How to Solder Perfect Joints — Beginner's Guide"), then optional tail keywords inside the cap. If trimming to the fold hurts, cut adjectives before nouns — searchers scan for the subject, not the styling.
Frequently asked questions
What is the YouTube title limit?
Titles cap at 100 characters. But search results and suggested-video cards truncate titles well before that — commonly around 60–70 characters depending on device — so the practical target for most creators is a title whose meaning survives at ~70.
Front-load or back-load keywords?
Front-load. The words most likely to be cut are the last ones, so put the search phrase and the hook early, and use the back half for secondary detail ("… | Full Tutorial 2026"). This is the same discipline as writing headlines for truncating feeds everywhere.
Do emoji work in titles?
They are allowed and each counts toward the 100 (this counter counts most as one). Used sparingly they can add scannability in a crowded results page; overused they read as spam and some get stripped in certain surfaces. One, early or not at all, is the common guidance.
What about descriptions and tags?
Descriptions allow 5,000 characters, with the first ~100–150 visible above "Show more" — the same fold logic as titles. Set our landing-page checker to a custom limit for those, or draft the visible opener against 150.
Counting is in Unicode code points; where YouTube's surfaces truncate varies by device. Nothing you type is transmitted or stored. See the methodology page.