Bring an image
Paste from the clipboard, drop a file onto the canvas or use the image button. Crop it, zoom it, and adjust brightness, contrast and saturation until the subject reads at a glance.
A free YouTube thumbnail maker that opens straight to the canvas.
Paste a screenshot or drop an image, put a caption on it that holds at phone size, and download the PNG. No account, no watermark, no template gallery to scroll through first. It runs entirely in your browser, so your images never leave your machine.
It is built for a mouse and a wide screen. On a phone, open this page on a computer instead.
How it works
Free, and no account.
Write the caption
Over a hundred font families, with an outline, a glow and a weight boost — the treatments that keep three or four words legible on a phone-sized thumbnail. Add shapes and arrows to point at what matters.
Download at YouTube's size
Export a PNG at 1280×720, the size YouTube asks for, or at 1920×1080. Designs are kept in your browser between visits, in tabs, so you can come back to one.
FAQ
Free YouTube thumbnail maker: common questions
Want the whole video made, not just this part?
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