YouTube Shorts hook generator
One sentence, about two seconds
Each of the five options is a single sentence, written to stop a swipe within the first two seconds of the Short. Each shows its length, and one over 90 characters is flagged as past the two second mark, because a line that long cannot be said or read in the time it has.
Open on the tension, not the welcome
No greeting and no "in this video". Every option leads with the tension or the specific detail instead: the setting that broke, the number that surprised you, the thing that went wrong. It can only point at a payoff you told it about, so describe what actually happens in the Short, including how it ends.
A hook is not a title
The hook is the first thing said or shown inside the Short. The title is what sits under it in the feed and in search, and it has a different job: it has to carry the search phrase and survive truncation. Write the two separately, the title with the title generator.
Related tools
This tool also runs over MCP, so Claude, Cursor or another MCP client can use it against your own channel. See the MCP page.
Questions about this tool
Can I use one of these as the title of the Short?
They are written as opening lines, not titles, so they do not put a search phrase at the front or keep under the 60 characters where search truncates a title. The title generator does both, from the same description.
Does it need an account?
Not for your first 3 runs a day: they are free with no sign-up. After that, a free account with no credit card: connect your channel and it includes 50 Cue credits a month, one balance for every drafting tool. The character counter, the line break tool and the bold text tool need no account at all, because they run entirely in your browser.
Will it make things up about my video?
It works only from what you type, and it is instructed to keep to your facts: any statistic, timestamp or sponsor in a draft comes from what you mentioned. The more specific you are, the better the draft.
Where do my channel's numbers come from?
From measurement. Runsheet uses a model to write copy, and every number it reports about your channel is measured, uses medians rather than means and carries its sample size.
Can I run YouTube Shorts hook generator automatically?
Yes. Every tool here is also exposed as an MCP tool, so Claude, Cursor or anything else that speaks MCP can run it against your own channel. How to connect one is on the MCP page, https://runsheet.buildifyapp.in/mcp.
Do you keep what I type?
Runsheet sends the text you enter to Google's Gemini API to produce the answer, and records only that a generation happened and its cost in credits, so your balance can be kept.