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Updated daily from YouTube India

Stop guessing.
Start with the numbers.

Six free tools that pull tags, hashtags, channel stats and rupee earnings from what is actually working on YouTube right now. No signup, no limits, nothing behind a paywall.

What you can check in seconds

Free, no signup, works on Shorts too.

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Why another set of YouTube tools

Ask any earnings calculator what a video makes and it quotes a figure built on American advertising rates. Ask a hashtag generator for suggestions and it rearranges the words you typed. Neither knows anything about the market most Indian creators actually publish into.

That gap is why this site exists. Indian RPM sits far below the numbers most calculators return, Indian trending charts look nothing like American ones, and the tags that work in Hindi gaming are not the tags that work anywhere else.

Where the data comes from

Every day these tools read the videos trending on YouTube India across each category and record the tags, view counts and engagement behind them. That record powers the tag and hashtag suggestions, and it is why a number appears beside a tag showing how many trending videos currently use it.

Some of what that record shows is worth knowing on its own. Across 430 trending videos, the median carried 19 tags using 328 of the roughly 500 available characters. Around 41 percent were Shorts, which says a great deal about where visibility and revenue have parted ways here.

What Indian creators are up against

India has more YouTube creators than any other country and some of the lowest advertising rates of any large market. A million views in Science and Technology might return ₹90,000. The same million in Music might return ₹12,000. Nothing on the platform tells you this before you pick a niche.

Shorts compound the problem. They dominate visibility and pay roughly ₹1 to ₹5 per thousand views against ₹20 to ₹260 for long-form. Two in five trending videos in India are Shorts, which means the format most likely to get you seen is also the one least likely to pay you.

Which tool to start with

Researching a topic before publishing? Run two or three videos already ranking for it through the Tag Extractor and look for tags that repeat across them. Title already written? The Tag Generator builds a set from live trending data.

Weighing up a format? The Money Calculator shows the gap between long-form and Shorts in rupees. Checking a creator before a collaboration? The Channel Stats ratios reveal whether an audience is real.

Free, and no account needed

Nothing asks you to sign up, and nothing is held back behind a paid tier. Paste a link, read the answer, close the tab. The site runs on a single ad slot per page and nothing more intrusive than that.

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Frequently asked questions

Are these tools really free?

Yes. No signup, no daily limit, no paid tier. The site is supported by a single ad slot per page.

Do I need a YouTube account to use them?

No. Everything here works on public data, so you can check any channel or video without logging in anywhere.

How current is the trending data?

It refreshes once a day across every category YouTube India publishes a chart for.

Why is the earnings calculator built for India specifically?

Most calculators use American advertising rates and convert to rupees at the end, which overstates Indian earnings by three to ten times. This one starts from Indian RPM ranges.

Can I use these tools for channels outside India?

The tag extractor, channel stats and money calculator work on any channel. The tag and hashtag suggestions draw on Indian trending data, so they are most useful for creators publishing here.