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
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.
Support
If iLoveYouTube saves you time, consider buying me a coffee. It helps keep the tools free.
License
MIT © Technophile
