Church YouTube Thumbnail Maker

Type a sermon title or paste a YouTube link and get six church thumbnails for a video or a Short. Edit and download them free in Design.

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

Church YouTube Thumbnail Maker

Church YouTube thumbnail maker

Type your sermon title or paste a YouTube link and get six thumbnails for a video or a Short.

Your chosen thumbnail

ROOTED · PART 3

HOLD FAST

Phone check, estimated

11.1:1 contrast, readable

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

ROOTED · PART 3

HOLD FAST

At 120 px wide, the size a phone feed shows in search results.

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 upload the thumbnail to YouTube 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 thumbnail options, each pairing one of our church thumbnail looks with a title line taken from your own words, as a 16:9 video thumbnail or a 9:16 Shorts cover. It estimates the contrast between the title colour and the average brightness behind it, with 4.5:1 as the target, and counts the title words against the 3 to 5 word guide. The default, Hold fast in the Rooted series, opens on the Bold left look: white on violet mist, an estimated 11.1:1 contrast. Downloading and editing happen in Design with a free account.

How the thumbnail 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 thumbnail look.

  • Video or Short

    Switch between a 16:9 video thumbnail and a 9:16 Shorts cover. Shorts text stays in the middle, clear of the edges.

  • 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 thumbnail at 120 px wide.

  • Edit and download in Design

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

Frequently asked questions

A thumbnail for every sermon.

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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