Free tools for YouTube creators
Small things that do one job properly. No account, no upload, no trial that turns into a subscription.
UC… ID from a URL, an @handle, or one of its videos.
Thumbnail Downloader
Grab any video's thumbnail in every size YouTube stores, up to 1280×720.
Tags Extractor
See the tags a creator actually used on any video, and copy them in one click.
Channel Analytics
Any channel's last fifty uploads ranked, with Shorts kept separate.
Best Time to Post
The hours that worked for a channel, read off its own uploads.
Channel Name Generator
Names with a matching @handle, and a check on whether it is already taken.
Timestamp Link
A link that starts at the exact moment, in the format that actually works.
Embed Code Generator
The iframe, responsive by default, with privacy mode and an end time.
Playlist Length
How long a playlist runs, and how long it takes at 1.5x.
Ask for a Tool
Tell us what is missing. Useful to more than one person means we build it free.
All ten tools are free, work without an account, and run on the page you land on. Need something else? Ask for it — if it would help more than one person, we may build it free.
What this is
Most YouTube tool sites make you sign up, then meter what used to be free, then email you forever. ytkit is the opposite of that. Each tool is a single page that does its job the moment you land on it.
Where a tool can run entirely in your browser, it does, which means the thing you paste never reaches us and there is nothing on our side to log or leak. The thumbnail downloader works this way: your browser talks straight to YouTube's public image servers.
Paid, if you want it
The tools above are free and stay free. If you also want to give a video or a channel a push, these four pages are the only paid thing on the site. No subscription, no password, and each page says plainly what the product does, what it does not, and what YouTube may do about it.