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Know your score before you publish

Upload your thumbnail, paste your title. Our AI scores 12 dimensions — readability, curiosity, emotion, coherence, FOMO and more — then gives you up to 5 ready-to-use improved titles and up to 5 thumbnail text ideas. Free. In seconds. No signup.

Needs
a thumbnail
Without
an audiencea published videoan account
Example resultGrade B
78/100

Global Score

  • Thumbnail Readability82
  • Title Strength74
  • Curiosity68
  • Title / Thumbnail Coherence85

Example result

  • Thumbnail Readability
    82/100
    Strong Appeal
  • Title Strength
    74/100
    Good Baseline
  • Curiosity
    91/100
    Viral Potential
  • Title / Thumbnail Coherence
    85/100
    Strong Appeal
  • Emotion
    58/100
    Room to Improve
  • Promise Clarity
    66/100
    Good Baseline
  • FOMO
    38/100
    Needs Work
  • Urgency
    49/100
    Room to Improve
12
Scoring dimensions
5
Title ideas per analysis
5
Interface languages
The scoring model

Winning the click is only half the score

Most packaging tools score how clickable something looks. A thumbnail that wins the click and loses the viewer costs you twice — YouTube reads the drop-off and shows the video to fewer people. So every analysis scores both halves, and multiplies them.

Earns the click

Will the impression convert?

Everything visible before the click: how the thumbnail reads at phone size, how hard the title works, and the psychological triggers that make scrolling past uncomfortable.

  • Thumbnail Readability
  • Title Strength
  • Cliffhanger
  • Curiosity
  • Withheld Answer
  • FOMO
  • Urgency
  • Rarity

Survives the click

Is the promise clear?

What the packaging promises the viewer who clicks: whether that promise is clear, whether the title and image agree, and whether any of it lands emotionally. The analysis never sees the video, so it cannot tell whether the video keeps that promise.

  • Promise Clarity
  • Title / Thumbnail Coherence
  • Emotion

Combined, not averaged

The two layers are multiplied rather than averaged, so a weak half cannot hide behind a strong one. A brilliant title on a misleading image scores like what it is.

Clickbait costs you points

Deception is penalised on a curve. Mild hyperbole barely registers; packaging that misleads is treated as the liability it becomes once watch time drops.

Simple process

How it works

  1. 01

    Paste a YouTube link or upload

    Paste a video link and the thumbnail comes straight from it — or drop your own JPG, PNG or WebP. The vision AI reads text, contrast and clarity.

  2. 02

    Add your title

    Type the title you are considering, or leave it blank on a link to use the video's own. Nothing else to configure.

  3. 03

    Get your score & improvements

    Receive a global score /100 across 12 dimensions, concrete recommendations, up to 5 improved title ideas, and up to 5 thumbnail text overlays — in seconds.

Example, sped up. A real analysis usually takes under half a minute.
What you get

Why ThumbSignal?

01

12-dimension scoring

Readability, title strength, curiosity, coherence, emotion, promise clarity, clickbait risk, cliffhanger, withheld answer, FOMO, urgency, rarity — all combined into one honest global score.

02

Up to 5 ready-to-use title improvements

Not just a score — you get up to 5 improved title ideas written specifically for your video's angle.

03

Up to 5 thumbnail text overlays

Short, punchy text overlay suggestions designed to work visually on top of your thumbnail at mobile size.

04

Honest, not magic

We pinpoint probable weaknesses. CTR also depends on your niche, audience, and the algorithm — we never overpromise.

05

AI analysis in seconds

Vision AI combined with a rule-based scoring engine analyses your thumbnail and title together in seconds.

06

Built for every kind of channel

Gaming, finance, beauty, tech, education, vlogs, podcasts and more — the analysis reads your thumbnail and title, whatever you make.

Questions

Before you upload

Is it really free?
Yes. Scoring a thumbnail and title costs nothing, and there is no account, no card and no trial. Usage limits keep the service running; nothing is held back behind a paid tier.
Will a high score get me more views?
No tool can promise that, and any that does is selling something. A score tells you whether your packaging has the qualities that tend to earn clicks and hold viewers. Your niche, your audience and your actual video still decide the outcome.
Do I need to upload my video?
Never. The analysis reads the thumbnail image and the title text — the two things a viewer judges before deciding to watch. Your video file stays where it is.
Does it work in my language?
The interface is available in 5 languages, and the analysis follows the language of the title you paste rather than the one the site is set to — so a French title is judged as French.
Why does psychology matter for a thumbnail?
Because a click is a decision made in about a second, on almost no information. A clear promise, an answer held back and an image that reads at a glance are what that decision runs on — and they can be rated in the packaging, which is what the score does. They are heuristics, not guarantees.

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