Your thumbnail against the competition
A thumbnail is never seen alone: it competes with the ones next to it. Here you place it among real videos from the YouTube home feed and see at a glance whether it pulls or disappears.
YouTube thumbnail tester
Put your thumbnail and title among real YouTube videos and check whether it stands out before you publish.
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The surrounding videos are real and belong to their channels; they are shown only as context. YouTube is a trademark of Google; CreativeStar is not affiliated with Google.
Home, search and mobile
Switch between the three places where people decide what to watch. On mobile thumbnails are far smaller, and that is where half of the text that looked readable falls apart.
Try two, keep one
Swap the image and the title as many times as you like without uploading anything to YouTube. The fastest way to kill a thumbnail that does not work.
Frequently asked questions
To see whether your thumbnail and title stand out among the videos they actually compete with, before you publish, on desktop and mobile.
Yes. Upload up to three designs and switch between them to see which one grabs attention in each view.
They are recent videos from real YouTube channels, refreshed every few hours. Hit Shuffle to change the order and where yours appears.
No. Your designs stay in your browser; nobody else sees them.