Hook Analyzer
Paste your opening line. See it next to what winning videos on your topic really say in their first 15 seconds, the one line to fix first, and five rewrites.
Free account · 15 credits, 3 full checks · no card. Your hook is saved to your account only.
Platform pacing
Shorts, TikTok, Reels and long-form are read with different pacing expectations.
Niche context
Add a niche to make weakness, title and thumbnail suggestions specific.
Audience trigger
Add the viewer type so the analysis targets the right motivation.
1 analysis uses 5 credits. Your hook stays private and results are saved to your workspace.
“I uploaded 100 Shorts in 30 days. Only 3 got traction. Here's the pattern.”
Names the specific action, the scale, the failure rate, and the implied payoff. The viewer understands what they'll learn before the second sentence.
Your analysis will replace this.
No 0–100 scores — an AI read next to measured winners.
How it works
The opening sentence or two, as you will say it. Add the platform, and a niche or audience if you want sharper advice.
We pull the first 15 seconds of winning videos on your topic from their captions. An AI editor reads your hook line by line against them and marks the one to fix first.
Take one of five rewrites, each built on a named mechanism, and study real videos on the same topic that beat their channel's usual views.
Method
A sharp editor's read with the reason attached, so you know exactly what to change.
Hard numbers from real YouTube data.
Privacy. Your hook, the context you add and the result are saved to your private workspace. Nothing is published or shared. Privacy policy · How scores work
FAQ
Because no tool can measure retention before a video is live, and a number from a keyword list or an AI guess only looks precise. The analyzer shows what winning videos on your topic really say in their first 15 seconds, how your hook differs, and which line to fix.
It finds videos on your topic that beat their own channel's average, reads their first 15 seconds from their captions, counts the differences with your hook, and an AI editor gives a verdict, a line-by-line read and rewrites that cite those videos. It is a second opinion, not a reach prediction.
Yes. A hook that works for creator growth may fail in fitness or finance. Adding a niche makes the weakness, title pairing and thumbnail angle more specific.
Most early exits happen when the opening line is vague, slow, generic, or disconnected from the title and thumbnail promise.
A premium hook analysis uses 5 credits and saves the result to your workspace.
How to read a hook verdict
The Hook Analyzer reads your opening the way a scrolling viewer does: is it clear, does it open a question, and is there a reason to stay past the first line? It puts your opening next to what winning videos on your topic say in the first 15 seconds, then gives a verdict, marks each line strong, OK or weak, and names the line to fix first. Here is how to get the most out of a read.
The read is for the words a viewer hears. Paste the spoken opening — not a summary of the video, not the title. Two sentences is plenty.
A video about budget meal prep for students.
You can eat for a whole week on [your budget] — here's the one shopping list I'd use.
The same line lands differently for beginners and pros. Naming both makes the diagnosis, the rewrites and the real-video comparison specific to who you're talking to.
Niche: (empty) — Audience: (empty)
Niche: meal prep — Audience: college students with no kitchen time
A hook that is clear but never opens a question doesn't need to be clearer — it needs a question. Change one thing, re-run, and compare; changing everything at once hides what worked.
Rewrite the whole hook because the overall verdict is middling.
The second line is the weak one → add the open question, keep the rest, re-check.
Analyses list real videos on the same topic that beat their channel's usual views. Read their titles and openings — if yours promises less than theirs, that's your gap.
Publish because one line moved from weak to OK, without reading the winners.
Compare the promise in your line to the top real video on the topic, then decide.
Rewrites are illustrative examples, not measured results.