Why is your YouTube monetization gone?
Start by picking what actually happened: your channel lost monetization entirely, some videos show limited or no ads, your Partner Program application was rejected, or the problem sits with AdSense and payments. Each of the four starting points leads to a different set of questions, so you only ever see what applies to your situation.
If YouTube sent you an official reason, the next screen asks for the closest wording, or lets you paste the exact text of the notice so the tool can match it to a category on its own. From there it asks how the videos are made: how often you publish, whether the voice is yours or AI-generated, whether that AI use is declared through the Studio disclosure toggle, how much the structure repeats from video to video, and whether third-party music or footage is used without a license.
Before showing anything, it lays out every answer on one screen so you can fix a wrong click, and it checks those answers against each other first. If two answers can’t both be true, it stops there and tells you exactly which one to revisit, rather than building a diagnosis on a contradiction.
The result opens with a plain-language category and a confidence level of high, medium, or low, never a percentage, since YouTube doesn’t publish the thresholds that would make a number meaningful. Below that sits a five-part signal map covering publishing frequency, voice and AI disclosure, format variation, personal contribution, and sourcing, each marked CLEAR, REVIEW, or ATTENTION rather than scored, with a note that these are not YouTube’s own scores.
A short list under “Why we think this” shows which specific answers drove the result. For a channel with a decision made 18 days ago, the appeal window sits at 3 days remaining out of 21 and turns red, and the recovery plan reorders itself to put the appeal ahead of everything else. A rejected Partner Program application works differently: it shows two separate timers side by side, since YouTube allows an appeal within 21 days regardless of how many times you’ve applied, and separately a reapply-without-appeal wait of 30 days after a first rejection or 90 days after a repeat one.
The recovery plan itself only lists steps tied to a signal actually marked ATTENTION, so a channel with no rights issue never sees copyright advice, and every suggestion changes what the content is rather than how to slip past a check. An evidence locker below it groups the documents worth collecting into decision, content, and rights categories with a running count as you check them off. For anyone who wants to go further, an optional three-step production map breaks down who did the idea, the voice and editing, and the rights check and publishing.
Nothing typed into any of this leaves your browser. There’s no login, no account access, and no server processing behind it, which is stated plainly before the result appears, alongside a reminder that this is not legal advice and doesn’t replace YouTube’s own appeal process.