YouTube Title and Description Length Checker
100% PrivateSocial Media ToolsCheck a video title and description against YouTube's limits before you publish.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to Ovatly or anywhere else.
- Title0 / 100 characters
Search results show roughly the first 60 characters on desktop, less on mobile.
- Description0 / 5000 characters
Only the first two or three lines appear before the Show more fold.
- Tags (total, commas included)0 / 500 characters
YouTube counts the characters in the tags box including the commas between tags.
- 1Type or paste your planned title.
- 2Paste the description draft.
- 3Paste your tags as a comma separated list, exactly as you would type them in Studio.
- 4Fix anything marked over the limit, using the per-tag list to find the long tags eating the budget.
The tags 'lofi beats, study music, focus playlist' are three tags of 10, 11 and 14 characters. YouTube counts the commas too, so the box total is 37 characters of the 500 allowed, not 35. The checker shows 37 and lists each tag with its own length.
- The 500 character tag limit counts the characters in the tags box including the separating commas, which is how YouTube itself measures it.
- Staying under 100 characters saves a title, but far fewer characters actually display in search results, roughly the first 60 on desktop. The limit check cannot judge how the title reads when truncated.
- Tag stuffing does not help discovery in any documented way; the checker measures length, not quality.
Usually the commas. Each comma between tags costs a character, and long lists quietly use dozens. This checker includes them, matching Studio's count.
About this tool
Check a planned video's metadata before you open YouTube Studio: title against the 100 character limit, description against 5,000, and the tag box against the 500 character total that creators most often trip over, with a per-tag breakdown showing the length of every tag.
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Part of Ovatly's free tools in Social Media Tools.