YouTube Shorts Thumbnail Maker for Churches

Type a sermon title or paste a YouTube link and get six 9:16 Shorts covers for a sermon clip, checked at phone size. Edit and download them free in Design.

Free to try, no account. Download with a free account.

YouTube Shorts Thumbnail Maker for Churches

Church YouTube Shorts cover maker

Type your sermon title and get six Shorts covers for a sermon clip.

9:16 Shorts cover

Your chosen Shorts cover

ROOTED · PART 3

HOLD FAST

Phone check, estimated

7.1:1 contrast, readable

2 words in the title. 3 to 5 words usually works best. This is a 9:16 Shorts cover.

ROOTED · PART 3

HOLD FAST

At 68 px wide, about the size of a Shorts cover on a phone shelf.

Make a free account to open it in Design with your words, edit it and download it at full size. No card needed.

Title ideas come from your own words, or from the title and description of the video you link. Contrast is a rule of thumb from the average brightness behind the title, with 4.5:1 as the target. Backgrounds are free worship backgrounds from Church Media Kit. You add the cover to your Short yourself; custom Shorts covers are added in YouTube Studio on a computer.

Turns a sermon title, a sentence about it, or a YouTube video's public title and description into six 9:16 Shorts covers, each pairing one of our church looks with a title line taken from your own words. It estimates the contrast between the title colour and the average brightness behind it, with 4.5:1 as the target, counts the title words against the 3 to 5 word guide and shows the cover at 68 px wide. The default, Hold fast in the Rooted series, opens on the Bold left look: white on violet mist, an estimated 7.1:1 contrast. Downloading and editing happen in Design with a free account; custom Shorts covers are added in YouTube Studio on a computer.

How the cover maker works

  • Your words, six looks

    Type a sermon title or a sentence about it, or paste a YouTube link. The maker keeps short lines from those words and sets each one in a church cover look.

  • Made for 9:16

    Every cover is 9:16, the shape YouTube names for Shorts, with the words kept in the middle where a shelf shows them.

  • A phone check

    It estimates the contrast between the title and the background behind it, with 4.5:1 as the target, counts the words against the 3 to 5 word guide and shows the cover small.

  • Edit and download in Design

    With a free account, your chosen cover opens in Design with your words, ready to change and download. You post it yourself.

Frequently asked questions

A cover for every clip.

Make one here, then edit it with your logo, colors and fonts in Design.

Free account. No card needed. Plans start at US$29.95 a month.

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