Title Truncator
One title, and the exact point every surface stops showing it.
- 100% success
Tool input
Overview
About this tool
Runs one title against ten places it appears — YouTube search, the home grid, the suggested sidebar, a Google result, an inbox row, four link cards and a podcast list — and shows what survives each cut, what is lost, and whether the surviving fragment ends on a word that can stand alone. The ceiling the upload form enforces is a column beside it, not the headline number.
Instructions
How to use it
Paste one title. It is measured against every surface at once, and the table shows what each one draws.
The ceiling and the cut are different numbers
A YouTube title may be 100 characters and the upload form will tell you so. Around 70 is where the search row stops drawing it, and about 40 in the suggested sidebar. Characters 71 to 100 exist for search to read and for nobody to see, and no form mentions that.
Being cut is fine. Being cut after “the” is not
Almost every title is cut somewhere, and it usually costs nothing. What costs something is a fragment that ends on a function word, because it reads as broken rather than short. The verdict column flags exactly that case.
Questions
Frequently asked
How long can a YouTube title be?
One hundred characters, and the upload form enforces it. Around seventy is what the search row shows and about forty is what the suggested sidebar shows, which is the number worth writing to.
Why does my title look shorter on mobile?
Because the cut is a width, not a character count, and a phone column is narrower. The same title loses more of itself in a grid card than in a search row.
Should I front-load the keyword in a title?
Front-load the subject, which is usually the same thing. The part that has to survive is whatever tells somebody what this is, and the tightest surface decides how much room that has.
Is it bad if a title gets truncated?
Not on its own. A title cut after a complete phrase reads as a shorter title; one cut after “the” or “of” reads as broken. That is the distinction the verdict column makes.
Stay sharp
One email a month, when a tool worth your time ships.
No drip sequence, no launch countdowns. Unsubscribe in one click.