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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 5 ready-to-use improved titles and 5 thumbnail text ideas. Free. Instant. No signup.

No credit card. No signup. Just upload and score.

Example resultGrade B
78/100

Global Score

  • Thumbnail Readability82
  • Title Strength74
  • Curiosity68
  • Title / Thumbnail Coherence85
12
Scoring dimensions
5
Title ideas per analysis
17
Interface languages
— 01  /  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
  • Zeigarnik Effect
  • FOMO
  • Urgency
  • Rarity

Survives the click

Will the viewer stay?

What happens after the click: whether the packaging made a promise the video can keep, whether the title and image agree, and whether any of it lands emotionally.

  • 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.

— 02  /  Simple process

How it works

01

Upload your thumbnail

Drop your JPG, PNG, or WebP thumbnail. Our vision AI analyses text, contrast, and visual clarity.

02

Paste your title

Paste the title you planned to use. Nothing else to configure.

03

Get your score & improvements

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

— 03  /  What you get

Everything you need to improve your CTR

01

12-dimension scoring

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

02

5 ready-to-use title improvements

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

03

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

Instant AI analysis

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.

— 04  /  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. Daily 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 17 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. Curiosity gaps, unresolved tension and the Zeigarnik effect describe what makes that decision tip — and they are measurable in packaging, which is what the score does.

Ready to maximise your next video’s CTR?

Upload your thumbnail and title now — free, no account needed.

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