YouTube Title Checker

Just length and formatting — character count against YouTube's 100-character limit, plus whitespace, ALL CAPS, and display-length checks. It does not analyze keywords, search relevance, or competition; a title passes here based on how it's written, regardless of what words it uses.

Not always. This tool counts characters the way JavaScript (and most browser-based text tools) does, which isn't always the same as counting by eye — many emoji and some rare symbols count as 2 units instead of 1 toward the 100-character limit. A title using several emoji may show a slightly higher count than you'd expect from counting letters. This isn't independently confirmed to exactly match YouTube's own internal counting, since YouTube doesn't publish that detail — it's simply the standard way text length is measured in a browser.

No — YouTube publishes exactly one hard number for titles: the 100-character maximum. The desktop and mobile display-length guidance here reflects widely observed truncation behavior in YouTube's actual search results and interface, not a number YouTube documents. That's why these show as "Best practice," not "YouTube requirement" — a longer title is never blocked because of them.

Because YouTube genuinely doesn't have one — a 2-character title is entirely valid and will publish without issue. This is only a best-practice nudge suggesting a bit more context could help viewers understand your video before they click; it's safe to ignore.