Studio tells you what happened. Runsheet tells you what to do next Tuesday.
| Runsheet | YouTube Studio | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free plan, paid from $12/mo | Free, always |
| Publishing | Upload, thumbnail, playlist and schedule in one pass, started from the day it belongs to | The same four in its upload dialog, one video at a time, with no view of the weeks around it |
| The week ahead | Four weeks as a running order with gaps visible | A list of scheduled videos |
| Shorts against long cuts | Compared video by video, and a winner named only when the gap is real | Reported separately, not compared |
| Small samples | Refuses, and says how many videos it needs | Charts what there is, with no verdict to withhold |
| Video history | Each tracked video snapshotted twice a day, from the day you connect | A daily chart per video, from the day it was published |
| Saved ideas | Offered on an empty day; picking one opens the composer | Not a feature |
| Competitor cadence | Channels you choose, compared by rhythm | Not a feature |
| Watch time and retention | Not available | Full, and better than anything third party |
| Revenue and RPM | Not available | Authoritative |
| Comments and moderation | Not a feature | Full |
Choose YouTube Studio if
- You want watch time, retention curves or revenue. Studio has data no third-party tool can legally reach, and it is better at it than anything else will be.
- You post when you feel like it and the week ahead is not a problem you have.
- You do not want another login. That is a reasonable position and Studio is genuinely good.
Choose Runsheet if
- The thing that slips is posting at all, not the quality of what you post.
- You publish shorts and long cuts and want them planned as one rhythm rather than two pipelines.
- You want to know whether your Shorts or your long cuts are doing better across the channel, from a test that says so only when the gap is real.
Use both
This is not a replacement pitch and it would be a strange one to make: Studio is free and has data no third party can get. Runsheet is what sits in front of it. You plan and publish in Runsheet, and you open Studio when you want retention, revenue or comments.
What Runsheet adds to Studio’s charts
Studio charts each video well, day by day, from the day it went up. What it does not do is line the catalogue up: every Short against every long cut, video by video, with a winner named only when the two groups genuinely separate, and no answer at all when there are too few of either to tell. That verdict is the thing that decides which format to make more of, and the methodology page publishes the test and the threshold.
Runsheet snapshots each video it tracks twice a day from the moment you connect, which is why its history starts at connection and it says so rather than drawing a flat line backwards. For anything older than that, Studio is the record.
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Compiled from YouTube Studio’s public documentation in September 2026. No competitor pricing is quoted anywhere on this site, because a stale price is a false claim.