Basic
$9per month15 packs a month with five-thumbnail composition, Designer Pass scoring, multi-channel binding and the quarterly Click Zine. Official source 1 ↗
Reviewed tool profile
ThumbnailsMaker
Turns a video brief into five YouTube thumbnails, each built on a different hook, from your own face and footage.
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- Pricing
- Paid monthly subscription with no free plan shown on the pricing section. Basic is $9/month for 15 packs a month and Studio $39/month for 50 packs plus a priority queue; both tiers have the same features and no watermarks. A Professional tier at $119/month (200 packs) is listed as coming. Payment is by Stripe, and a first subscription cancelled within 15 days is fully refunded. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
- Available as
- Web app, designed for desktop. On phones and tablets the Studio is read-only: you can review past packs and read the Hook Library, but briefing and selecting happen on a computer. There is no mobile app. Official source 1 ↗
- Primary group
- Image & Design
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What it does
ThumbnailsMaker is a web app for YouTube creators that turns a short brief about a video into five 1280×720 thumbnail options, each built around a different hook (a specific number, a before-and-after, a question and so on). It composes them from your own face and footage using design rules rather than inventing images, runs a quality check that drops clickbait or duplicate hooks and says why, and lets you edit text in place and send the chosen thumbnail to a YouTube draft. It is a sole proprietorship run by Alexa Wagner in Munich, Germany.
Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗Features
- Five hook-differentiated thumbnails per brief. You paste a video idea or a YouTube URL and get five thumbnails, each testing a different hook angle, shown side by side with equal weight and no recommended pick. Official source 1 ↗
- Composition from your own assets. Thumbnails are composed from your face and footage with designer rules, with no template gallery, no AI-looking visual signature and no watermarks. Image composition runs on Replicate and text assistance on Anthropic. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
- Designer Pass quality check. Each set is scored before you see it; hooks with clickbait language, near-duplicate framing or a low-confidence brief are suppressed, and a strip under the row explains why, so you may see fewer than five. Official source 1 ↗
- Edit in place. Click a text element on a thumbnail and rewrite it directly, without regenerating the set. Official source 1 ↗
- Send to a YouTube draft. Connect a YouTube channel to send the chosen thumbnail to a video as a draft; Basic includes multi-channel binding. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗ · Official source 3 ↗
- Hook Library. A free-to-read reference of seven thumbnail hook patterns, such as the specificity anchor, curiosity gap and transformation arc, with notes on when each works and when it suppresses. Official source 1 ↗
Pricing & free limits
Studio
$39per monthEverything in Basic with 50 packs a month and a priority generation queue. Official source 1 ↗
Billing details
Subscriptions are billed in advance through Stripe and renew automatically. You can cancel from account settings in one screen without a retention form; without a refund, the plan stays active to the end of the paid period. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
A first subscription cancelled within 15 days is refunded in full automatically, and access ends at that point. EU consumers also have the statutory 14-day right of withdrawal; later refunds are case by case. Official source 1 ↗
Free access & limits
Free access and its limits were not established by the checked official sources.
Best for & limitations
A YouTube creator testing several thumbnail angles for the next upload before picking one. Official source 1 ↗
Making thumbnails built on a real, specific claim instead of clickbait, after YouTube's crackdown on misleading thumbnails. Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
- 16:9 YouTube thumbnails only. Only 16:9 thumbnails are supported; 9:16 and 1:1 formats for Shorts, Reels and TikTok are planned for the unreleased Professional tier. Official source 1 ↗
- No free plan. Pricing starts at $9/month; the risk-free option is the 15-day refund on a first subscription. Official source 1 ↗
- Desktop needed to create. Briefing and selecting thumbnails cannot be done on phones or tablets. Official source 1 ↗
- Needs your own footage and face. It composes from assets you supply rather than generating scenes from scratch, so you need your own images or video frames. Official source 1 ↗
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