AI for generating Youtube thumbnails

YouTube thumbnails are so important – they're the first thing people see when they come across your video. A good thumbnail makes more viewers watch your video, while a bad one can make them skip right past. But making and optimizing a great thumbnail takes time.

We checked out over 20 different AI tools to find the best for helping you save time and get more views by generating and optimizing your video thumbnails.

These are the best AI tools we found:

• Pikzels: for generating AI thumbnails in Discord
• Taja: for generating and optimizing thumbnails, descriptions, etc.
• Thumbnail Test: for optimizing thumbnails and titles to get you more views
• Opus Clip: for generating social media clips from your videos

Best AI thumbnail generator in Discord

Pikzels is an AI app built just for generating AI thumbnails. You can easily describe what kind of thumbnail you want, and Pikzels generates thumbnails for you. You can also use Faceswap in this app to easily personalize thumbnails by smoothly swapping in your face into the thumbnail. They also support all thumbnail formats like 1920x1080 and 1080x1920. Looking at their roadmap, Pikzels is planning to add new AI features like turning a sketch into a thumbnail, AI ideation, and adding text to thumbnails. You can also get a 3 free thumbnail generations if you join their Discord.

Best AI thumbnail tool with video optimization

Taja is an AI video optimization tool built for Youtubers. It helps you save time and get more views by helping you create a transcript, identify viral title ideas, create descriptions, and generate AI thumbnails for you based on your video. Taja bundles together all these features for you.

Best AI thumbnail testing tool

Thumbnail Test is a powerful tool for getting more clicks and views on your video. It helps you test your thumbnails and titles and find which combination users are mostly likely to click on. Their features include:

• testing multiple thumbnails and swapping them hourly or daily
• AB testing thumbnails, titles, or both
• easy to understand metrics and reporting
• collaboration features

Best AI video clipping tool

Opus Clip is the easiest to use AI clipping tool to generate social media ready clips quickly. Opus uses AI to automatically reframe and adjust your clips for different aspect ratios, curate the most interesting highlights from your video, animates captions, adds B-roll, and includes quick editing features like brand templates. It's the most powerful clipping tool we found.

Best general thumbnail editing tool

Canva provides easy to use templates to quickly create good looking Youtube thumbnails quickly. Canva is also slowly introducing AI features like: image generation tools, design generations, and photo editing.