iLoveYouTube

Free online YouTube tools for creators and viewers. No account, no sign-up, no tracking cookies.

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Tools

Tool	What it does
Thumbnail Downloader	Grab any YouTube thumbnail in full resolution.
Thumbnail Previewer	See how your thumbnail and title look in a realistic feed on home, search, mobile and TV before you publish, and compare A/B versions.
Embed Code Generator	Customize a YouTube player for your website, preview it live, and copy the code.
Safe Zones Overlay	See where YouTube's buttons, captions and badges cover your Shorts, thumbnails, videos and channel banner, and download overlay templates.
Cross-Platform Preview	Turn a YouTube thumbnail into Instagram, Stories, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Telegram and Pinterest versions, smart-cropped with the background extended where needed, and download them.
Description Builder	Drop in a transcript and AI writes your title, description, chapters and hashtags; your saved links are added, YouTube's limits are checked, and it's ready to copy.
YouTube API Sandbox	Try YouTube Data API requests with your own key, see the real response, and copy cURL, JavaScript or Python code.

More are on the way: transcripts, a chapters generator, a title and description formatter, and a video screenshot tool.

Privacy first

Your uploads stay in your browser. YouTube images are served through our own domain, so your browser never contacts Google just because you opened a page. Visits are counted with Vercel Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and can't identify individual visitors.

Tech stack

• Frontend: Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Lucide icons
• Analytics: Vercel Web Analytics (cookie-free)
• Backend: Express 5 API with Zod for config validation
• Data: YouTube Data API v3
• Hosting: Vercel (frontend) and Railway (backend)

Project structure

iloveyoutube/
├── frontend/              # Next.js site
│   └── src/
│       ├── app/           # Pages and routes (tools live under /tools)
│       ├── features/      # One folder per tool
│       ├── components/    # Shared layout and UI components
│       └── data/          # Site config, tool list, FAQs, legal text
├── backend/               # Express API, mounted under /api
│   └── src/features/
│       ├── videos/               # Video info and thumbnail downloads
│       ├── images/               # Privacy-friendly YouTube image proxy
│       └── thumbnail-previewer/  # Weekly trending feed, cached
└── package.json           # Scripts to run both apps together

The frontend forwards every /api/* request to the backend (see frontend/next.config.ts), so the browser only ever talks to one domain.

Contributing

Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are welcome.

• Want to run it locally, add a tool, or deploy your own copy? See CONTRIBUTING.md.
• Found a bug or want a new tool? Open an issue.
• Want to chat? Join the Discord.

Support

If iLoveYouTube saves you time, consider buying me a coffee. It helps keep the tools free.

License

MIT © Technophile