Your channel's breakouts, explained.

ChatGPT writes whatever you ask for. HookSignals checks what you already wrote: it compares the opening line, title and thumbnail text with videos that won on your topic, names the weakest part, and keeps every analysis in your workspace. Rewrites leave [X] where a number is needed instead of inventing one.

Those are broad channel-growth suites: keyword research, SEO, analytics, browser extensions. HookSignals does one job: checking a video's packaging (the opening line, the title and the thumbnail text) before you publish. Plenty of creators use both.

Keywords tell you what people search for; they don't tell you which title and thumbnail got clicked. An outlier is a video that got several times its own channel's usual views, so its size and subscriber count are taken out of the picture and the packaging stands out. Every multiple we show is measured from public data and dated. If you want search terms too, the free keyword generator is there.

Yes. The checks read your words and your thumbnail: the opening line, the title and the thumbnail text and image. Nothing assumes a face on camera, and the comparison videos come from your topic, faceless channels included.

One analysis — a hook analysis or a full YouTube video analysis — costs 5 credits. The free plan tops your balance back up to 15 credits every 30 days (unused credits don't add up past 15) — 3 full analyses. The top-up is for the free plan only: Starter credits never expire but are not refilled, and paid monthly plans get their own monthly allowance. Creator Pro gives you 2,000 credits per month — that's 400 full analyses.

No tool gives a 0-100 score. Each tool puts your hook, title or thumbnail next to real videos on your topic that beat their own channel, counts the differences (length, numbers, questions, greetings, thumbnail words) and gives a verdict with a reason. The AI read of your words and image is a judgment, not a prediction of views. The one measured number is the outlier multiple: a video's views divided by its own channel's median views, pulled from the YouTube Data API.

The website and every free tool use public YouTube data only (title, description, views, likes, duration, thumbnail), with no YouTube login. The optional HookSignals Chrome extension can also read your own channel's YouTube Analytics, but only after you connect your channel and approve Google's consent screen for read-only access (youtube.readonly and yt-analytics.readonly). It cannot edit your videos or see revenue reports, and you can disconnect at any time.

No, and we won't claim otherwise. Strong packaging measurably increases your odds — but content, niche fit, timing and watch-time still decide the outcome. We check the part you control before publish.

Yes. Every purchase — the Starter pack and the first charge of Creator Pro or Elite — has a 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked, whether or not you used the credits. Email support@hooksignals.com within 14 days and Paddle returns it to your card.

The free plan starts with 15 credits and tops your balance back up to 15 every 30 days — no card required. Creator Pro and Elite (monthly) also start with a 7-day free trial: you are not charged until it ends, and you can cancel before then. After that they are a fixed monthly price.

Monthly plans cancel from your dashboard at any time. You keep remaining credits and saved history until the end of the billing period. Starter pack credits never expire.