Say what happens in the video and who should watch it. Hemmingway writes ten titles to choose from. Fill in the description field as well and it adds a video description under them.
The form takes text, so it has not watched anything. It goes on your summary, script or notes, and promises a viewer only what you said is in the video.
What gets the click and keeps the viewer
- Include the ending. A title can only lead on the result if the tool knows there is one.
- Put the searched words first. A title that starts with the phrases a viewer would type still makes sense when a phone cuts it short.
- Keep the promise. A title that oversells gets the click and loses the viewer in the first minute.
- Let the thumbnail do half. If the picture already shows the rust, the title can spend its words on what happened next.
An example
Asked for titles for a video in which someone restores a rusted 1970s cast-iron pan, strips it with oven cleaner, re-seasons it six times and then fries an egg on it with no oil, for people who cook at home and found an old pan in a charity shop, with the search words "restore cast iron pan" and "rusty skillet", in a plain voice, titles along these lines are what to expect:
Restore a cast-iron pan: rusty 1970s skillet to fried egg
How to strip and re-season a rusty skillet
I seasoned this pan six times, then fried an egg with no oil
Oven cleaner, six coats of seasoning, one egg: a rusty pan restored
Restoring a rusted 1970s cast-iron pan, start to finish
If you ask for a description
Say what it should cover: the steps in order, the tools used, a line about the channel. The opening lines say plainly what the video is, since they are what shows before a viewer expands the box. It does not invent links or chapter times, so add those yourself.
The script generator drafts the video itself. For a short cut of the same footage there is a TikTok caption generator, and for a written version a blog post generator.
Common questions
Is the YouTube title generator free?
Yes. Hemmingway has a free trial with no card needed, and this tool opens it with your answers filled in. You sign up once, and the titles are written in the chat.
Can it write the video description too?
Yes. Fill in the description field with what you want covered, and the description comes after the titles. Leave that field empty and you get titles only.
Can it watch my video?
No. Describe what happens, or paste your script or notes into the first field, and it writes from that.
How long should a YouTube title be?
Short enough to show in full on a phone screen. Put the words that matter at the front, so a title that does get cut off still says what the video is.
Will it sound like AI?
It is built not to. Hemmingway-1, the model behind it, came first on sounding like a person in our own blind test, Human-Likeness. It still helps to read it aloud and change any word you would not use.