Your YouTube, on autopilot.
Runsheet is the YouTube autopilot for creators. It plans your next videos from what works on your channel, your Claude makes them, Shorts and long videos with chapters, and every title, description and thumbnail is written for you. It schedules them on YouTube and tells you what worked. Any video can be pulled before it goes live.
No credit card either way. The demo needs no email.
An animation: Runsheet's autopilot runs on Sunday morning. Claude reads what worked on your channel and finds seven open days, makes seven Shorts in five styles on your computer, and uploads them to YouTube, each private until its slot. Next week fills with one Short a day, and Runsheet emails you for every one, with a link to pull it.
Plan, make, schedule, learn. Every week.
The whole loop →It picks what to make next.
From what beat your own numbers and what is breaking out on the channels you watch. Plan my month puts an idea in every open slot.
Your Claude makes the videos.
Shorts, and long videos with chapters, written from your channel and made on your own computer as motion graphics, with a voice and music, in the style you pick. Filmed one yourself? It cuts the Shorts from it.
Every word written, every slot filled.
Titles, descriptions, tags, chapters and thumbnails by YouTube's own rules. Each video goes up with its publish time and YouTube puts it live on its own clock. You get an email for each one, with a link to pull it.
It tells you what worked.
Twice a day it checks every tracked video, and its weekly review shows what beat your usual numbers, Shorts against long videos. Next week's plan starts from there.
Three things that stall a channel.
The ideas are there. The videos are not.
Writing, recording and editing every Short yourself is where the week goes. So the calendar stays empty and the channel goes quiet.
Your Claude makes the Shorts and long videos for you.
You film in batches, then post whenever you find the time.
Three videos finished, none scheduled, and by Thursday the week is gone. The videos are ready. The schedule is not.
Every video goes up with its publish time, and YouTube puts it live.
You can't tell what is working.
YouTube Studio charts each video on its own. It won't tell you whether your Shorts are really beating your long videos, or whether it is just luck.
Runsheet tests Shorts against long videos before it names a winner.
Three ways the autopilot fills your channel.
How Claude makes them →You Plan my month.
Your slots are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and all twelve over the next four weeks are open. Here is a video for each, from your saved ideas and what your channel does best.
Plan the next four weeks: 12 videos in your posting slots
Puts the whole month on your runsheet as plans. Attach each video when it is ready.
One sentence. Your whole month.
Cue sits in the corner of every screen. Ask what is working and it answers from your channel’s own numbers. Ask it to plan the month and it fills every open slot for four weeks. You press Approve, and the month is on your runsheet.
- Answers from your numbersWhat is growing, what went quiet and where the gaps are, drawn on cards from the same data the screens show.
- Plan my monthFour weeks of posting slots, each with a video to make, in one step.
- Nothing moves until you approvePublish times, new titles, a publish now or a deletion each wait on a card. A deletion keeps a ten minute undo.
Claude makes your videos. You pick the look.
How it worksAsk Claude to fill your week. It writes every script from your channel, makes each Short, and each long video with its chapters, on your own computer as motion graphics with a voice, music and sound, and schedules it. Hand it a video you made yourself and it watches it first, then writes the title, description, chapters and thumbnail. One script, five styles:
Run your channel from Claude.
Runsheet runs a remote MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another MCP client can ask what is in your running order, move a short from Thursday to Friday, or draft five titles for the video you just scheduled. For most clients it is one link and an approval.
- Your week, answered in the editorWhat is scheduled, what is published, where the gaps are.
- Edits and schedulingRetitle, retag, file to a playlist, move a publish time, on a key you allow to write.
- Drafts where you workTitles, hooks, descriptions, tags and chapters, written by your own AI from Runsheet's brief, with no credits spent.
- Uploads from your own machineRunsheet's local server, runsheet-mcp, sends a file from your disk straight to YouTube, private, with a publish time or as a draft.
What is going out this week, and what is missing?
Three scheduled, two ready but not scheduled, and Wednesday is empty. The two ready ones are long cuts.
Put one of them on Wednesday at 6pm.
Scheduled for Wednesday 18:00. It stays private until then and YouTube publishes it itself.
Studio tells you what happened.
Runsheet tells you what to do next Tuesday.
And every answer says how much data it rests on. A finding that needs more videos says how many more, and appears on its own once you have them.
What a finding looks like, with its sample size beside it.
Format verdict
n = 25, need 4Shorts, by 4.0×
Median 3,400 views across 12 shorts against 850 across 13 long cuts. The two interquartile ranges do not overlap, which is the test Runsheet applies before it names a winner.
Title length
n = 25, buckets overlapNo length wins.
There are enough titles to look, and the length buckets overlap, so on this channel the length of a title is not what separates a strong video from a weak one. It is the answer most channels get, and here it is printed with the sample behind it.
Both boxes come from the same module the app uses, and each shows the sample it rests on. Every threshold is published.
The whole product in two minutes.
Plan the week, write and publish a video, see what worked, and then hand the same jobs to Claude. The screens are the live app with a demo channel in it.
The whole product, before you sign up.
Click through the screens below to see what each one does. Or try the real app: the live demo gives you a practice channel with 25 published videos, three scheduled, two weeks of view history and two other channels to compare against.
What needs me right now? If the answer is nothing, the screen says so and gets out of the way.
11 things, done properly.
All features →YouTube autopilot
Runsheet runs the whole loop: what to make next, the video itself, the words around it, the slot it goes in, and what it did afterwards. Your Claude makes the videos on your own computer, and YouTube puts each one live on its own clock.
Schedule a week
Runsheet lays the next four weeks out as a calendar, a column per weekday, with Shorts and long cuts in the same day and the empty days left empty and visible. The same four weeks are one press away as a list.
Bulk upload
Pick a whole batch of finished videos at once. Runsheet reads which are Shorts and which are long, gives each one the next open slot in your posting rhythm, and sends them to YouTube one after another, already scheduled.
Publish to YouTube
Publishing a video by hand is around fifteen interactions, and twice that if the short and the long cut are separate. Runsheet asks once and does the rest in one pass.
Shorts and long cuts
YouTube reports what a video has done in total. That number cannot tell a video that died in two days apart from one still climbing, because both eventually show the same total.
Channel audit
Connect a channel and the first screen you see is a report card on it: what is coming up, what is working, how steady you are, which videos broke out, and how you stack up against the channels you watch.
What to make next
A blank Thursday is not a capture problem. You know what you could make; what is hard is deciding which of those is worth the afternoon, and that is a question about what already worked on your channel.
Cue, the AI assistant
Cue lives in the corner of every screen. Ask what is working, what to post next or what to fix, and it answers from your channel's measured data, then offers to do the work.
Watchlist
A subscriber count is not a decision you can act on. What a channel publishes, how often, and which of its videos went past its own normal are three things you can do something about this week.
Public page
Sponsors and collaborators ask how often you post. A screenshot of Studio is a bad answer. A page that updates itself is a good one.
Several channels
Two channels in one tool usually means two channels in one chart. That is worse than two tools, because the average of a channel that is working and one that is not describes neither. In Runsheet each channel is its own, with nothing summed across them.
Two channels, two sets of numbers.
How it works →Most tools that run several channels put them in one chart. That is worse than using two tools, because the average of a channel that is working and one that is not describes neither. Runsheet keeps every channel’s numbers apart: each one has its own runsheet, its own library and its own findings, and every screen says which channel it is showing.
Up to 5 on one account
Switched from the rail, and the choice survives a new browser. Free and Starter cover 1, Creator covers 2, Network covers 5.
Nothing is summed
A library showing 28 videos is 28 on that channel, not 28 across two. A check fails the build if a read arrives without a channel.
Today is the exception
It spans every channel on purpose and labels each line, so a broken connection on the second cannot hide behind a first that is fine.
Everything else a channel needs.
All tools →Counting a title against the limit that actually truncates it. Keeping the blank lines YouTube throws away. Writing five titles when you cannot think of one. 12 of them. The free ones below work without an account, and every one of them also sits inside the app next to the schedule, because that is where you are when you need them.
Your channel stays yours.
How it is protected →Connecting is the moment to be careful, so here is what you are handing over, in four lines.
Your password stays with Google
You connect on Google's own permission screen. Runsheet receives a token for the permissions listed there, never your password.
Your videos never pass through us
The file goes from your browser straight to YouTube. Runsheet keeps the title, the schedule and the view counts, not the video.
Nothing changes without you
Everything on your channel is something you scheduled, pressed or approved. Cue only suggests, and a delete waits ten minutes with an Undo.
One click to take it back
Disconnect in Settings and its tokens and data are deleted at once, or revoke it at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Google reviewed the three YouTube permissions Runsheet uses and approved them on 30 September 2026. See what each one is for. The Buildify channel on YouTube is scheduled with Runsheet too.
Flat prices, no seat maths.
Compare every plan →Free
$0
One video a week, free forever, no credit card.
- 1 YouTube channel
- 4 videos published a month
- 3 videos scheduled at a time
- 50 Cue credits a month, once your channel is connected
- 1 AI thumbnail to try
- 7 days of view history
- 1 other channel to keep an eye on
Starter
$12a month
Post three or four times a week.
- 1 YouTube channel
- 15 videos published a month
- 15 videos scheduled at a time
- 500 Cue credits a month
- 10 AI thumbnails a month
- 60 days of view history
- 3 other channels to keep an eye on
- Download your view data as a spreadsheet
Creator
$29a month
For the channel you are serious about, and one more.
- 2 YouTube channels
- 60 videos published a month, per channel
- 60 videos scheduled at a time, per channel
- 1,500 Cue credits a month
- 40 AI thumbnails a month
- Your full view history, kept
- 10 other channels to keep an eye on, per channel
- Download your view data as a spreadsheet
Network
$69a month
Two to five channels, each with its own runsheet.
- 5 YouTube channels
- 250 videos published a month, per channel
- 250 videos scheduled at a time, per channel
- 5,000 Cue credits a month
- 120 AI thumbnails a month
- Your full view history, kept
- 50 other channels to keep an eye on, per channel
- Download your view data as a spreadsheet
Already using something else?
All comparisons →Each page sets Runsheet beside one other tool, row by row, compiled from that tool’s public documentation.
Written to be useful without signing up.
All guides →How to schedule YouTube videos, step by step
How to schedule a YouTube video in Studio, why a scheduled video can fail to publish, and why no third-party tool should hold your file until the slot.
7 minThe best time to post on YouTube
The best time to post on YouTube is usually a fixed slot you keep. How to use Studio's audience report, and test your weekdays before trusting a best day.
6 minHow to schedule YouTube Shorts
How to schedule YouTube Shorts in Studio, what the phone apps document, where a custom Shorts thumbnail can be set, and how to plan Shorts with long videos.
Questions people ask before signing up
What does Runsheet actually do?
It runs your YouTube channel on autopilot. It plans your next videos from what works on your channel, your Claude makes them (Shorts, and long videos with chapters), each one gets its title, description, tags and thumbnail from Cue or your Claude, it publishes to YouTube with the thumbnail and the playlist attached in one pass, and it records a snapshot of each tracked video twice a day so you can see a curve instead of a lifetime total.
Do I have to approve every video?
No, that is what makes it an autopilot. Your Claude schedules each video itself, and Runsheet emails you the moment it does, with a link to watch it, move it or pull it. YouTube keeps every scheduled video private until its time. Changes Cue suggests inside the app still wait for your yes.
Is it safe to connect my YouTube channel?
Yes. You connect on Google's own permission screen, so Runsheet never sees your password. It encrypts the token Google gives it, changes your channel only when you schedule, press or approve something, and never keeps your video files. You can revoke it at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions, and the security page lists every permission and what it is for.
Can I see the product before signing up?
Yes. The live demo opens the real app with a practice channel of your own, already filled with 25 published videos, three scheduled, two weeks of view history and two other channels to compare against. No sign-up and no credit card. Nothing you do in it reaches YouTube, and it is deleted after 12 hours.
Where does my video go when I upload it?
Straight to YouTube. The server opens a resumable upload session with YouTube and your browser sends the file directly to Google. Runsheet handles the metadata and shows the progress, and your unreleased work travels only between your browser and YouTube.
How is this different from YouTube Studio?
Runsheet shows the week ahead as a shape, publishes to it, and compares your shorts with your long cuts using a test for whether the gap is real, with the sample size beside every finding. It schedules through YouTube's own publish time, so everything it does shows up in Studio as well.
Can I schedule shorts and long-form together?
Yes, and that is the point. They sit on the same row of the same week rather than in two pipelines, which is how channels end up publishing five shorts and no long cut in a month without anyone deciding that.
What happens to my scheduled videos if Runsheet goes down?
They publish anyway. A scheduled video is uploaded to YouTube immediately as private with a publishAt timestamp, and YouTube flips it live itself, so the publish time is held by YouTube from the moment you schedule.
How much does it cost?
Free covers 1 channel with 3 scheduled videos at a time, 7 days of view history and 1 watched channel, with no card and no clock on it. Starter is $12 a month, or $108 a year; Creator is $29 a month, or $264 a year; Network is $69 a month, or $624 a year. No seat charges and no percentage of anything. Publishes a month: Free 4, Starter 15, Creator 60 per channel, Network 250 per channel.
How does the analytics screen decide when to show a finding?
Each finding declares the sample it needs, shows how many more videos it is waiting for, and appears on its own once you cross the line. The thresholds are published on the methodology page.
Does Runsheet have an MCP server?
Yes. A remote MCP server lets Claude, Cursor or another MCP client read your running order, draft copy and move publish times. A new key is read only unless you tick more when you make it, and the server is included on every plan, Free too.