vidIQ

What vidIQ is

vidIQ is a long-established YouTube growth and optimisation platform. Creators and brands use it to research keywords, grade videos, follow analytics, and trial thumbnails with AI assistance — a complete toolkit for the platform.

A note: the official site timed out when this was written, so pricing and some specifics come using the pricing page plus outside listings, and live confirmation is still needed.

Daily personalised ideas are the retention hook: research arrives without being requested.

What you can do with it

Core tools include a keyword tool reporting search volume and competition, a pre-publication scorecard grading each video and proposing tags and descriptions, daily ideas matched to your channel, competitor following, and split testing for thumbnails. AI features draft titles, descriptions, and ideas.

Your YouTube account links in so analytics can be read and videos acted on, showing health metrics per channel. Per third-party listings, a free tier covers basic keyword and search tools, then Boost at roughly one hundred ninety-nine dollars yearly and Max at about four hundred sixty-eight, with coaching and enterprise tiers above; a free extension is the entry point. Current numbers deserve a live check.

Who it is for

YouTube creators, channel owners, and agencies after better search visibility plus smoother optimisation and comment handling.

Channels not seeking search growth will use only a fraction of it.

Channels chasing search traffic gain the most. Agencies manage several channels. Casual uploaders can stay on the free tier.

Channels publishing weekly gain most, since daily ideas need a weekly cadence to use.

Channels publishing weekly gain most, since daily ideas need a weekly cadence to use.

Channels chasing search traffic gain the most. Agencies manage several channels. Casual uploaders can stay on the free tier.

What to watch out for

The official page timed out, so current pricing and features need live confirmation; third-party plan numbers can lag behind.

The YouTube connection carries read and write scope — review the permissions and what it may change before granting access. AI suggestions and the scorecard are guidance, not guarantees of views; a creator's judgment on brand and audience still decides.

Scorecard suggestions assume search-led discovery — channels driven by browse may weigh them less.