How to Check Your YouTube Title and Description Before You Publish

YouTube cuts off titles and descriptions that run too long, and it counts every character — including spaces. Checking your text against YouTube's actual limits before you hit publish takes a minute and saves you from a title that ends mid-sentence. This guide shows how to do it with TOOLZORQ's free Title & Description Checker.

Know the limits first

YouTube's limits are:

Title: 100 characters
Description: 5,000 characters
Tags: 500 characters in total

Staying inside these limits is only part of the job — the first words of your title and description are also what viewers actually see in search results and on their home feed, so put the most important words first.

Use TOOLZORQ's Title & Description Checker

The Title & Description Checker is one of the free tools on TOOLZORQ's homepage. It runs entirely in your browser, with no sign-up and nothing to install. To use it:

Open TOOLZORQ and find the Title & Description Checker among the tools.
Type or paste your video title into the title box — the character count updates live against the 100-character limit.
Do the same for your description (limit 5,000 characters) and your tags, separated by commas (500 characters in total).
Trim anything that runs over the limit before you copy the text into YouTube Studio.

Because the counts update as you type, you can try a shorter wording on the spot and see immediately whether it fits.

Write for the cut-off, not just the limit

A title can be within the 100-character limit and still get cut off in search results, where viewers only see the beginning. The same goes for descriptions, where only the first couple of lines show before a viewer has to tap "more". Practical habits that help:

Front-load the title: put the topic and the hook in the first few words, not at the end.
Lead the description with the summary: the first one or two sentences should say what the video is about, so a viewer who never expands the description still gets the point.
Keep tags focused: a short list of relevant tags beats a long list of loosely related ones, and it is easier to stay inside the 500-character total.

Rule of thumb: if your title only makes sense when read in full, rewrite it so the first half already tells the story. Then check the full version against the limit.

Quick checklist

Is the title within 100 characters?
Does the beginning of the title make sense on its own?
Is the description within 5,000 characters, with the summary up front?
Are the tags comma-separated and within 500 characters in total?
Did you paste the checked text into YouTube Studio, rather than retyping it from memory?