See what is really working on YouTube. Then make your next video on it.
Other tools hand you a score they estimated. VideoCore shows you what was measured: how every video did against its own channel, what your field is watching now, and what to change on yours. Research, ideas, titles and thumbnails in one place, built on Jake Trinder's method.
Five decisions. Any one can sink the video.
Jake Trinder runs over a hundred YouTube channels. His method treats a video as five decisions in a row: the topic, the packaging, the hook, the body, the read afterwards. VideoCore is built as that chain, with a counted number at each decision and the next one named.
What you get
The jobs you already use a YouTube tool for, done on real numbers.
Find what is working in your niche
Every video is scored against its own channel's recent uploads, so a small channel's breakout shows up beside a big channel's average day.
- Breakout videos on any channel
- What is moving this week, with its age shown
- Niche demand and competition before you film
Ideas, briefs and scripts
Ideas drawn from your comments, your niche's winners and your own best videos, then a brief and a script in your own voice.
- One idea in, a full plan out
- A chat that knows your channel's numbers
- A content calendar
Titles and thumbnails
Three thumbnail ideas for a video, a title lab built on the titles doing best in your niche, and title tests on the live video.
- Does the thumbnail just repeat the title?
- Does the opening say what the title promised?
- Descriptions, tags and chapters ready to publish
Every video on your channel, scored
Your own uploads ranked against your own average, with the ones that stalled flagged and what to change on each.
Check your channel, free →One short list each week
Out of everything you could do, the two or three things worth doing this week, in order, read from your own channel.
See if you will make the 2027 bar →More from each video
Shorts and clips from your long videos, posts for other platforms, and a tracker that turns the monetisation target into views per video.
Find out why a video is stalling →Start with your own channel
Every one of these runs on your numbers, against your own normal. Connect your channel and the first list is waiting when you arrive.
Counted, not modelled
The one difference that matters, and worth knowing before you trust any tool of this kind.
- • Another channel's click-through rate
- • Another channel's retention or impressions
- • How often a phrase is searched: YouTube publishes no figure
A tool that shows these for someone else's video is showing a model, however exact it looks.
- ✓ Counted numbers from YouTube: views, likes, comments, dates
- ✓ A fair comparison, calculated by VideoCore: each video against its own channel, Shorts against Shorts. Our own figure, not a YouTube metric.
- ✓ Your own analytics, read from your channel once you connect it
Where something was not measured, VideoCore's rule is to leave a blank rather than guess.
Comparing tools? VideoCore Lens vs vidIQ, including where vidIQ is the better choice.
Free, where you already work
Two ways to use VideoCore without opening VideoCore.
VideoCore Lens
A score on every video as you browse YouTube: how it did against its own channel. No account needed and no credits that run out.
Add to Chrome, free About Lens →VideoCore inside your AI assistant
Ask your assistant to audit a channel, find its breakout videos or score a niche, and it answers from public YouTube numbers, with VideoCore's own calculations labelled as ours. It can never post to or change your channel.
How to connect itTry it on a real channel, no account
Each of these reads public YouTube numbers and works without signing up.
🩺 Channel Health Check
Where your channel is strong and where it is weak, with the change most worth making first.
Check my channel →🔎 Why No Views?
Paste a video and see how it did against its own channel, with a read of its thumbnail, title and opening.
Check a video →📈 Outlier Finder
Enter any channel and see the videos that beat its own recent average, and how each one opens.
Find outliers →🔍 Niche Finder
Look at a niche's demand and competition before you film anything.
Check a niche →✏️ Title & Thumbnail Check
Compare a draft title against the titles doing best in your niche.
Check my title →🧭 Viewer Prompt Map
The questions viewers ask to find channels like yours, drawn from your niche's top videos.
Map my prompts →⏳ Partner Programme 2027 Check
Type in your Studio numbers and see what you need before the bar doubles to 8,000 hours on 1 Feb 2027.
Check my numbers →Pricing
Connect your YouTube channel and your 14-day Pro trial starts, no card required. Scale up when you're ready, or stay free. No credits and no per-click charges: every plan carries a monthly AI allowance, and the free Lens extension stays free. Every feature, mapped to every plan.
Free
Try the core tools free — no card needed.
Starter
For solo creators getting serious about growth.
Pro
The complete toolkit to grow faster.
Agency
For teams & agencies: up to 10 channels on one plan.
✓ 14-day Pro trial when you connect your channel, no card · ✓ Cancel anytime · ✓ Pay yearly, get 2 months free · ✓ Secure checkout, VAT & tax included
Compare all 88 features, plan by plan ↓
| Feature | Free | Starter | Pro | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | £25/mo | £39/mo | £99/mo |
| Set Up | ||||
| Channel Blueprint | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Style DNA | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| YouTube / Social Connect | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Setup Guide | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| First 10 Videos | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Produce | ||||
| Research & Ideas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Idea Engine — Daily Ideas with evidence (every idea cites its measured signal; save or dismiss, judged ideas never return) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Niche Finder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Outlier Playbook Research | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Swipe File (Hooks, Problem Bank & Sponsor List) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unexpected Idea Finder | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Video Briefs & Video Canvas (the whole plan on one page — scored keywords, measured titles, hooks, timed outline, thumbnails, description — everything carries through to publish) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Greenlight Boards | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Script Studio (example drafts in your own voice) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Interview → Script | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Packaging Lab (measured Search & Outlier titles with receipts + Shelf Test — your card in a real feed of your field) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thumbnail template check (does your thumbnail look like every other thumbnail? measured from the pixels) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publish Kit | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publish Score | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Launch Centre | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Grow | ||||
| Channel Health Check | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ongoing Account Health Tracking | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your Analytics, Explained in Plain English | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Download Your Analytics as CSV | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Age-Matched Performance Scores (fair to new videos) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Revive Videos That Stopped Getting Views | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alerts When a Video Breaks Out or Stalls | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Drop-Off Predictor | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Benchmarks vs Your Niche | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Length Lab (your best video length, from your own retention data) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Packaging ↔ Hook mismatch (which videos get clicked then abandoned, and which are hidden gems) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Revival Queue (your dormant videos ranked by the audience they lost) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Growth Coach | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Growth Strategy | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your Personal Playbook | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Record of What Worked & Why | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Growth Forecasting | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Myth Tests (advice tested on your own videos) | — | — | — | — |
| Back-Catalogue Renovation | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optimise | ||||
| Video Analyzer + One-Click Apply to YouTube (every change recorded — one-click revert; bulk-optimise the whole catalogue) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thumbnail Lab | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Thumbnail Image Generation (real 16:9 renders — optionally featuring YOU, from one reference photo) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Video Preflight | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Title & Thumbnail A/B Testing | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Feed Readiness Score | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Comment Plan (Pin & Reply Drafts) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Change Impact Monitor | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Content Quality | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Readiness Checks | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Earn | ||||
| Milestone Centre | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sponsor Hub | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Media Kit Generator | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Patreon Membership Metrics | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Expand | ||||
| Shorts Engine | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Repurpose Engine | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Podcast Hub | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Global Growth (Dubbing) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Series Architect | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Community Posts | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| YouTube Post Pack + Topic Tests (posts, polls & quizzes from any video — test topics before filming) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Livestream Planner | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| TikTok Cross-Posting | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Instagram Cross-Posting (Reels) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pinterest Pins | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Workspace | ||||
| Team Manager | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Governance & Risk | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Video Library | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Comments Desk | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asset Library | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rights Center | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Content Calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smart Triggers | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weekly Recommendations Email | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Slack Notifications | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Discord Notifications | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced | ||||
| Do This Next (Opportunities) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pre-Publish Packaging Check | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Outlier Scanner & Niche Map (find what’s working) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audience Size Estimator | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Next-Video Suggestions (keep viewers watching) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| One-Click Video Plan | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shorts Compiler | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Originality Record (proof of authorship) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| YouTube Policy Monitor | — | — | — | ✓ |
| AI Dubbing (ElevenLabs) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Whisper Transcription | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Assistant Connector (use VideoCore inside Claude or ChatGPT: 30 lookups a day on Free, 100 on Starter, 300 on Pro, 1,000 on Agency) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| VideoCore Lens Chrome Extension (scores, channel health bar, AI coach + the full downloader toolkit on YouTube) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Want to know which videos make you money?
That is our managed service. Our team tracks every sale, sign-up and call back to the video it came from, reports on your channel and your competitors, tests your openings and thumbnails, and briefs your editor. It is not part of a VideoCore plan: we do it with you.
See the managed serviceSee what is really working
Check your channel free, or add Lens to Chrome and see a score on every video you browse.