Check the length of your YouTube video title and description. Ensure maximum SEO visibility without getting truncated.
Paste your draft video title and description into the text areas.
Check the progress bar to see if your title exceeds the recommended 60 characters or the absolute 100 character limit.
Verify that you haven't exceeded the 15-hashtag penalty limit in the description.
YouTube explicitly states that if a video has more than 15 hashtags within its description, it will ignore all of them entirely. It is a strict spam penalty.
Getting people to click on your YouTube video starts with the Title and the first line of the Description. If your metadata gets cut off by a "..." on mobile devices or in the search results sidebar, you lose critical context that convinces a viewer to click.
Our free YouTube Metadata Formatter provides real-time character counting specifically tailored to YouTube's unique length restrictions.
YouTube has strict server-side limitations on how much text you can upload for a video. More importantly, they have soft "display limits" that dictate what is actually shown to the user before they click "Show More."
The absolute maximum length for a YouTube title is 100 characters. If you try to upload a video with a 101-character title, the YouTube Studio API will reject the save.
While 100 characters is allowed, SEO experts strongly recommend keeping titles under 60 characters. Anything longer than 60 characters runs a high risk of being truncated on mobile screens and suggested video sidebars, meaning your audience won't see the end of your hook.
Descriptions allow for an absolute maximum of 5,000 characters.
However, only the first 100 to 150 characters are shown above the fold (before the viewer has to click the "Show More" expansion button). This means the first two sentences of your description are incredibly important for both human readers deciding if they want to watch, and the YouTube algorithm indexing your video for search terms.
This tool isn't just a basic word counter. It provides visual, contextual warnings designed specifically for YouTubers:
# tags and throws a red warning if you exceed the 15-hashtag spam penalty limit.Don't wait until you click "Publish" to find out your carefully crafted video title gets chopped in half on a phone screen. Write your drafts in our YouTube Length Checker, test your hashtags, and publish with complete confidence.
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Optimize your video metadata before publishing. Prevent your title from being truncated in search results and test hashtag limits.