Looking at a channel’s thumbnails side by side is the fastest way to understand its style: how big the faces are, how many words are on screen, which colours repeat and how the layout changes over time. This tool loads the channel’s latest 30 videos at once, and you can keep loading up to 300. Shorts have their own tab because they are judged very differently.
Views alone are misleading, because a big channel gets more views on everything. The outlier badge compares each video with the channel’s own typical video — the median of the videos you have loaded. A 2× badge means the video got twice the usual views, 5× and 10× mean it clearly broke out. Sort by “Outlier” to bring those to the top, then ask what their thumbnails have in common.
Select the thumbnails you want to keep and download them as a ZIP, or press ＋ to add them to your Reference Board, where you can write notes and compare them with your own design. Nothing is stored on our side: the board lives in your browser.
Thumbnails and titles are loaded through our small proxy from YouTube’s public pages and cached for a few hours, so numbers can be slightly behind YouTube. Thumbnails belong to their creators — use them for research and reference, not as your own.
Frequently asked questions
What does the outlier score mean?
It is the video’s views divided by the median views of the videos loaded from the same tab. 2× means twice the channel’s usual views. Live streams and videos without a view count get no score.
Why does the score change when I load more videos?
The median is calculated from the videos you have loaded. Older videos often have more views, so loading more can move the typical value.
Can I use a video link instead of the channel link?
Yes. Paste any video link and we look up the channel that published it.
Do I need a YouTube account or API key?
No. smallyt reads the same public information you see on YouTube.
Why do I only see 15 videos sometimes?
When YouTube is busy we fall back to the channel’s official feed, which only lists the latest 15 videos. Try again a minute later for the full list.