vidIQ researches what to make. Runsheet makes sure it 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 a handful of suggestions, and puts most of its opinion into whether the next one goes out on time.
| Runsheet | vidIQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | The posting rhythm | Research, scores and suggestions |
| Idea suggestions | Up to six at a time, read from your last 30 published videos | AI generated, a core feature |
| Keyword scores | Not a feature, on purpose | Extensive |
| 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 |
| Refuses on small samples | Yes, explicitly, with the threshold shown | Scores are always shown |
Choose vidIQ if
- You want a daily stream of ideas and topics and find that genuinely useful. Plenty of creators do.
- You are optimising for search and browse discovery and want scores to steer titles and tags.
- You want subscriber and view estimates for channels you do not own.
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 tells you when your data cannot support a 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 only, needs a stated minimum before it will name a day, and will tell you that no day is meaningfully better, which is the usual answer.
That is a worse demo and a better product. It is also the part that takes the longest to appreciate, which is why the thresholds are published rather than described.
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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.