How it will actually look
Upload your thumbnail and type the title, channel and view count: the card comes out just like the YouTube home feed or search results, with the same sizes and crops.
YouTube thumbnail preview
See how a video looks on the YouTube home page or in search and download it as a PNG. Paste a link to fill it in, or test your thumbnail before you publish.
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YouTube is a trademark of Google; CreativeStar is not affiliated with Google. Use it to preview your own videos or for creative content, not to impersonate another channel.
Titles get cut sooner than you think
YouTube truncates long titles on the first line. Here you see it before uploading, so you can move the important words to the front.
Download the card
Export it as a PNG to show the thumbnail to your community, ask for feedback on Discord or compare two versions before deciding.
Frequently asked questions
To check that your thumbnail and title read well the way viewers will see them, before you publish, or to drop a video card into your edit.
Yes. Upload it as JPG or PNG: it is cropped to 16:9 like on YouTube and never leaves your browser.
The home page card, the search result and the watch page while playing (with suggested videos, grey placeholders or nothing on the right), in light or dark theme, as a transparent PNG at 2x, 3x or 4x.
From the public YouTube video page: thumbnail, title, channel, photo, badge, views, length and date. You can change anything afterwards.