YouTube Title & Thumbnail Preview
Type your title, drop your thumbnail, and see exactly how the card renders on the desktop home feed and on a phone — including where the title gets cut off.
Thumbnail (16:9 image) — click or drop
Desktop home feed
Phone (search result)
Why preview?
YouTube truncates titles at roughly 2 lines on desktop cards and ~60-70 characters in mobile search. If your payoff is at the end of the title, viewers may never see it. Thumbnails also lose detail at feed size — what looks sharp in your editor can be unreadable at 210 pixels wide.
Is my thumbnail uploaded?
No. The image stays in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.