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Free tools for understanding YouTube
Some for people who make videos. Some for people who just watch them. Everything runs in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere.
For creators
Monetization & revenue
Why Is Your YouTube Monetization Gone? Recovery Advisor
Find out why YouTube removed your monetization and get a recovery plan based on your own answers, processed only in your browser.
YouTube Money Calculator — Real RPM Earnings Range
See a real ad revenue range from your views, based on RPM not CPM, with no single fake number and no login required.
YouTube QR Code Generator — Channel, Video & Shorts
Turn any YouTube link into a QR code that opens the subscribe prompt, cleans tracking junk, and works offline — no account needed.
YouTube Strike Countdown & Risk Checker
Enter your Community Guidelines and copyright strike dates to see exactly when restrictions lift, strikes expire, and how close your channel is to the three-strike threshold — with a "what if" simulator and calendar reminders.
When Will You Hit YouTube’s Monetization Threshold?
Enter your current watch hours or Shorts views and a snapshot from a few weeks ago — see the exact date you'd hit YouTube's monetization threshold, and whether that's the current bar or the higher one taking effect February 1, 2027.
Does Your YouTube Upload Schedule Fit Your Week?
Break down what a YouTube video actually costs you — recording, editing, packaging, overhead — and see whether your posting frequency fits the hours you really have, or quietly runs over them.
YouTube Link Builder — Clean, Timestamp, Embed & Short Links
Paste any YouTube link and get a clean URL, timestamp, short link, embed code, thumbnails, or a UTM-tagged version — built in your browser, no account or server involved.
YouTube Comment Picker — Pick a Winner with a Verifiable Draw Receipt
Draw a random winner from real YouTube comments, with unique-commenter filtering built in for free and a shareable receipt anyone can re-check against the live comment pool.
Will Your Shorts Still Get Paid After February 1, 2027?
Map the 90-day window behind each Shorts payout month, test your daily pace, and see the first month that could fall below 10 million qualified views.
YouTube AI Label Checker: Does Your Video Need Disclosure?
Check which AI uses in your YouTube video need disclosure, get element-by-element verdicts based on YouTube's published guidance, and see where the label may appear.
How Much of Your YouTube Thumbnail Survives the Feed?
Download any YouTube thumbnail in every size that exists, then check your own design at feed, sidebar, Shorts, podcast and vertical-video sizes: how big your text stays, what the duration badge covers, and what gets cropped.
Which YouTube Channel Gets More Views per Video in the Same Window?
Compare two or three YouTube channels on videos from the same window, old enough to have collected their views. See median views per upload, how much rests on one top video, upload gaps and subscriber ranges, straight from the YouTube Data API.
Is This YouTube Channel Monetized?
Check any channel or video for the monetization signals YouTube shows in public: channel memberships, ad placements and mid-roll breaks across recent uploads, each with what it does and doesn't prove.
Title & SEO Checker
See how your title and description hold up for search and suggested videos.
Coming soon
For viewers
Time, cost & viewing habits
Is YouTube Premium Worth It? — Personal Calculator
See if YouTube Premium pays for itself based on your own viewing habits, device, and music subscription — not a generic 2-hour rule.
YouTube Ads Time Cost Calculator
See how many days of your life your own YouTube habit gives to ads — based on your viewing time and ad behavior, not platform averages.
YouTube Course Pace Calculator
See exactly when you'll finish a YouTube course or playlist — set your playback speed, daily time, and weekly schedule (or work backward from a deadline) to get a real finish date, not a guess.
YouTube Data Budget Calculator
See how many GB YouTube burns at each quality, what it costs on your plan, and the highest resolution your remaining data can actually afford.
How Much of Your Life Have You Spent on YouTube?
Find out how many years of your life have gone into YouTube. Enter when you started and your daily average, and see the total in days, films, work weeks and nights of sleep — plus what a smaller daily habit would give back.
What Does Your YouTube History Show About Your Year?
Drop your Google Takeout export and see which channels you came back to on the most days, when in the week you open YouTube, which videos you opened again and what changed from the previous year. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded.
How Long Is Your YouTube Playlist, and How Much Is Left?
Paste a playlist or the video you stopped on to see the full length, any stretch of it, and the time left at 1× to 2×, with watched marks kept on your device.
Watch Time Calculator
See how many hours a week of YouTube adds up to over a month or a year.
Coming soon
More tools are being added regularly.