A vidIQ alternative that makes sure the video ships.
If you are weighing Runsheet as a vidIQ alternative, start from the fact that they do different jobs. vidIQ is built around research, scores and daily coaching. Runsheet reads your last thirty videos for up to six suggestions grounded in your own channel, and puts most of its effort into whether the next one goes out on time.
| Runsheet | vidIQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | The posting rhythm | Research, scores and suggestions |
| Idea suggestions | Drafted by Cue from your last 30 videos, six at a time, or a whole month with Plan my month | AI generated, a core feature |
| Competitor tracking | Cadence and format mix | Views, tags, subscriber estimates |
| The week ahead | Four weeks as a running order | Calendar and reminders |
| Publishing | Upload, thumbnail, playlist, schedule in one pass | Supported |
| Per-video daily curve | Yes, from the day you connect | Trend views |
| Small samples | Findings wait for a stated threshold, which is shown | Scores are always shown |
Choose Runsheet if
- You already know what to make and the gap is between filming it and publishing it.
- You want an analytics screen that shows how much data stands behind every conclusion.
- You want one price with no seat maths and no percentage of anything.
The honest version of a small channel’s analytics
Twenty videos cannot support most of what creator tooling reports. Split twenty videos across seven weekdays and the best day is decided by one upload. Runsheet buckets by weekday, names a day once a stated minimum stands behind it, and tells you plainly when no day is meaningfully better, which is the usual answer.
The thresholds are published, so you can check every one.
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Compiled from vidIQ’s public documentation in September 2026. No competitor pricing is quoted anywhere on this site, because a stale price is a false claim.