YouTube Character Counter
Write your YouTube title, description and tags below and see how many characters you have left before you upload. The counters follow YouTube's own limits, including the way YouTube Studio counts tags, and warn you about characters YouTube does not accept.
How long can a YouTube title be?
A YouTube title can be up to 100 characters long. Search results and suggested videos usually cut the title off after about 60 to 70 characters, so the words that tell viewers what the video is about should come first. The counter warns you once your title is long enough to be shortened in search.
How long can a YouTube description be?
The description can hold up to 5,000 characters. Viewers only see the first lines before they click "...more", so the counter shows you roughly the part that appears above the fold. Use that space for the sentence that makes people want to watch, and put links, chapters and credits further down.
How many characters can YouTube tags have?
All tags of a video together can use up to 500 characters. YouTube Studio counts this in its own way: the commas between tags are counted, and a tag that contains a space is counted with two extra characters because YouTube wraps it in quotes. That is why a list that looks shorter than 500 characters can still be rejected. This counter uses the same rule.
Which characters are not allowed?
YouTube does not accept the angle brackets < and > in titles and descriptions. If you paste text that contains them, the counter tells you so you can remove them before saving.
How are hashtags in the description handled?
Hashtags such as #travel in the description become clickable links. If your title has no hashtags, YouTube shows the first three hashtags from the description above the title. If a video has more than 60 hashtags, YouTube ignores all of them, so the counter warns you when you go past that number.
How to use the YouTube Character Counter
- Type or paste your title, description and tags into the boxes above.
- Watch the counters: the bar turns orange when you are close to the limit and red when you are over it.
- Copy each part with its button and paste it into YouTube Studio.
- Optional: paste the link of an existing video to load its text and see how other creators use the space.
Need tags to start from?
See which tags similar videos use with the Youtube Tag Extractor, or copy another video's description with Youtube Description Copy, then check the result here.