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YouTube Character Counter

Stay within YouTube's character limits for every field. Paste your text and get an instant character count, completely free.

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Your text is 0 character long. 5000 characters remaining.

Video Title: 100 / 100
Video Description: 5000 / 5,000
Channel Name: 100 / 100
Channel Description: 1000 / 1,000
Comment: 10000 / 10,000
Playlist Title: 150 / 150
Playlist Description: 5000 / 5,000
Community Post: 5000 / 5,000
Tags: 500 / 500

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How to Use the YouTube Character Counter

  1. 1. Pick Your Field

    Select the YouTube field you want to write for, title, description, comment, or any other field.

  2. 2. Paste or Type Your Text

    Enter your text directly into the counter field.

  3. 3. Check Your Count

    See your character count update in real time and make sure you stay within the limit.

  4. 4. Copy and Use

    Once you are within the limit, copy your text and paste it directly into YouTube Studio.

Frequently Asked Questions.

Yes. Nuelink's YouTube Character Counter is completely free to use with no signup required.

No. Just paste your text and get your character count instantly.

YouTube has different limits depending on the field. Video titles are limited to 100 characters, video descriptions to 5,000, channel names to 100, channel descriptions to 1,000, comments to 10,000, playlist titles to 150, playlist descriptions to 5,000, community posts to 5,000, and tags to 500 characters combined.

YouTube displays around 70 characters of a video title in search results on most devices. Even though the hard limit is 100 characters, it is best to keep your title under 70.

Only the first 157 characters of your video description appear above the fold before viewers need to click to expand.

Yes. Spaces and emojis are counted as characters just like YouTube counts them natively.

Yes. The tool shows all YouTube fields at once so you can check and optimize every section in one place without switching between tools.

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