The YouTube analytics Chrome extension for spotting breakout videos
TubeGen for YouTube is a Chrome extension that adds outlier scores, estimated earnings and SEO scores to every YouTube video, channel and search result. Inside YouTube Studio, it adds AI tools that write titles from your video, test your thumbnail and plan your ad breaks.
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18:49What TubeGen for YouTube shows on every video, channel and search
The overlay is included with every TubeGen plan and never uses credits. Its numbers come from the public page you're on, so there's no switching tabs to look something up.
Outlier Multiplier
Shows how far a video is beating, or trailing, its own channel's usual views. Multiplier badges also appear on every tile of a channel's video grid, with an Outliers sort.
Estimated Earnings
An estimated revenue range for any video, and for any channel's last 30 days, right beside the subscribe button.
SEO and Engagement Score
A 0-100 score for a published video's title, description and tags, with what's helping and what's missing. Engagement weighs likes and comments against views.
Search Intelligence
Subscriber count and channel age on every search result, plus a Channel age filter to see what small, new channels are ranking with.
Channel Stats
Subscribers, 30-day views and uploads, upload cadence, a daily views chart and similar channels, for your channel or a competitor's. Numbers for channels you don't own are modeled estimates.
Tags, Transcript and Export
Copy any video's tags in one click, grab its transcript, and download channel data as CSV, Excel, PDF, JSON or TSV.
AI tools that work from your actual video
These features use credits from your plan. Each one shows its cost first and only runs when you click it.
Titles From Your Video
TubeGen watches and listens to your upload, then suggests five titles and a description in your language. Suggestions sit under the title box and never overwrite what you typed.
Metadata Score
Grades your title and description 0-100 against what the video actually says, with a list of fixes before you publish.
Thumbnail Lab and Test View
Scores a thumbnail across six categories and drops your draft into a mock home feed next to competitors' top videos, so you can see if it stands out.
Retention Analyzer
Marks where viewers spike, drop or leave, with a likely cause at each point: script, pacing, ad or structure.
Ad-Break Planner
Places mid-roll ads at natural pauses, never mid-word, then applies them in YouTube's ad editor or copies the timestamps.
True Analytics
Impression-weighted click-through rate and average view duration by traffic source, shown beside YouTube's own numbers.
How to install TubeGen for YouTube
It takes about a minute.
- 1
Sign in to TubeGen
Log in at app.tubegen.ai. Any plan works, including Build Your Own.
- 2
Add the extension
Install TubeGen for YouTube from the Chrome Web Store. It connects to your TubeGen account on its own.
- 3
Open YouTube
Open any video, channel or search page. The overlay appears on the page, and the Studio tools appear inside YouTube Studio.
What's included, and what uses credits
The extension is free to install and works with any TubeGen plan. TubeGen doesn't have a free plan.
Analytics overlay
Outlier multipliers, estimated earnings, SEO and engagement scores, search intelligence, channel stats and exports.
AI Studio tools
Anything that reads your video, scores your metadata, analyzes a thumbnail or transcribes audio. You see the estimated cost before it runs.
What the extension uses
The overlay's numbers are calculated from the public YouTube page you're viewing. The extension uses your TubeGen sign-in to connect to your account and run the features you choose.
You can optionally share the public channel IDs you come across to help build TubeGen's channel-discovery index. It's off by default, and you can change it any time from the extension popup.
For the full details, see the Chrome Web Store privacy disclosure and our privacy policy.
TubeGen for YouTube questions
What is TubeGen for YouTube?
TubeGen for YouTube is a Chrome extension that adds analytics to every YouTube video, channel and search result: an outlier multiplier, engagement score, SEO score, estimated earnings and channel stats. Inside YouTube Studio it adds AI tools that write titles from your video, score your metadata, test thumbnails, analyze retention and plan ad breaks.
Is the TubeGen extension free?
Installing it is free, but it only works when you are signed in to a TubeGen account, and TubeGen does not have a free plan. The analytics overlay is included with every plan, starting at $27/mo on Build Your Own, and it doesn't use credits. The AI features use credits from your plan and show the cost before they run.
Do I need a TubeGen account?
Yes. Sign in at app.tubegen.ai and the extension connects to your account. Nothing appears on YouTube or YouTube Studio until you are signed in.
What is the Outlier Multiplier?
The Outlier Multiplier compares a video with its own channel's typical performance. A video at 9x is getting about nine times what that channel usually gets, so you can spot real breakouts instead of mistaking a big channel's average upload for a hit.
How accurate is Estimated Earnings?
Estimated Earnings is a range calculated from public data, not the channel's real payout. Use it to compare videos and niches against each other, not to predict exactly what a channel earns.
What does the extension add to YouTube Studio?
Title and description suggestions based on your uploaded video, a 0-100 metadata score, Thumbnail Lab and Test View, a Retention Analyzer, True Analytics for click-through rate and view duration by traffic source, Best Time to Publish, an Ad-Break Planner, Bulk End Screens and Studio Export.
What's the best Chrome extension for faceless YouTube channels?
It depends on what you need. If you only want free outlier scores, a free standalone extension is enough. If you research on YouTube and then make the video, TubeGen for YouTube is built for that: it finds outliers on YouTube and connects to TubeGen's niche, script, voiceover, visuals and thumbnail tools.
Is TubeGen for YouTube an alternative to vidIQ or TubeBuddy?
Partly. vidIQ and TubeBuddy center on keyword research, tags and channel growth tools. TubeGen for YouTube centers on outlier research, estimated earnings and AI tools in YouTube Studio, and it links into TubeGen's video creation tools. Some creators use both.
Can I export YouTube channel data?
Yes. Channel and video data can be downloaded as CSV, Excel, PDF, JSON or TSV. In YouTube Studio, the Content tab can be exported with exact publish times, lifetime counts and each video's outlier multiplier.
What data does the extension collect?
The overlay's numbers are calculated from the public YouTube page you're viewing, and the extension uses your TubeGen sign-in to connect to your account. Sharing public channel IDs with TubeGen's channel-discovery index is optional and off by default. The Chrome Web Store listing and our privacy policy list exactly what is collected.
Spot the next breakout before you make your video
Free to install. Works with any TubeGen plan.