About

What ytplaytime.com is: independent, free YouTube tools for creators, marketers and developers, the public data they read, and what they deliberately do not do.

This is an independent set of free YouTube utilities. It started with watch-time planning — playlist, video and channel durations — and has grown into a toolkit of 50 tools for the people who work with YouTube every week: creators preparing uploads, marketers vetting channels, and developers who need clean IDs and reliable metadata.

What it does

  • Reads public data through the official YouTube Data API v3: statistics, metadata, comments and search results.
  • Estimates earnings, watch hours and live-stream income with calculators whose formulas are shown next to the results.
  • Checks privacy, embedding, age restriction and visibility signals, and searches the Internet Archive for removed videos.
  • Generates titles, hashtags, comment drafts and channel ideas from fixed, rule-based templates — no AI model involved.
  • Runs the thumbnail preview, resizer and timestamp tools entirely in your browser.
  • Saves a video or its audio in the qualities YouTube offers, and nothing about the download is kept afterwards.

What it does not do

  • It cannot play or reveal private videos, and it never asks for your Google password. The members-only downloader works only from a session you export yourself, for videos your own account can already watch.
  • It does not confirm a channel's monetization status or payouts — only YouTube knows those. Money figures are estimates.
  • It does not simulate numbers: live counters show exactly what YouTube reports, when it reports it.
  • It does not require an account or keep what you paste into the tools.

Where the data comes from

YouTube data comes from the YouTube Data API. Dislike estimates come from the community Return YouTube Dislike project, archive captures from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, and the royalty-free catalogue from Kevin MacLeod's incompetech library (CC BY 4.0).

Affiliation

This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.

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