Free Tool

Title Gap Finder

Find a phrase people search for on YouTube that no video has claimed as its exact title. Pull long-tail phrases from YouTube's own autocomplete, then check the real competition for each one. Add a free YouTube key and it checks every phrase for you.

YouTube Data API key

Optional but strongly recommended. With a key the tool checks every phrase against real YouTube results automatically. Without one you paste the results in yourself, one phrase at a time.

Your key

Free from Google Cloud: enable YouTube Data API v3, then create an API key. The free quota covers about 100 checks a day. Your key stays in this browser, on this device, and is sent only to Google.

1. Find long-tail phrases

Straight from YouTube autocomplete, so every one is a phrase real people type.

Your topic or keyword

2. Check one phrase by hand

No key? Open the phrase on YouTube, select the results, and paste them here. Paste the titles, not the address bar.

Phrase to check Paste the results (the whole page is fine, I will pick out the titles)

Found your phrase? Studio Optimizer AI writes the title, description, tags and chapters around it, inside YouTube Studio.

See Studio Optimizer AI →

An open gap removes the exact-match competition. It does not guarantee a ranking; the video still has to be watchable and deliver what the phrase promises.