Know if it worksbefore you film it.
Paste your channel. vidger reads what you've published, finds the formats already breaking out in your niche, and hands you ten ideas ranked by predicted views. Then it scores anything else you were thinking of making.
No card. One channel read and three idea scores a month, free forever.
Your channel
Ten ideas, ranked. Top three:
The problem
You find out after you publish. That's too late.
A video costs you a week. Scripting, filming, editing, packaging. Then you upload it and the data finally arrives — and by then the week is gone. Every analytics tool on the market is an autopsy. None of them stop you making the wrong video in the first place.
Start from your channel
One link. vidger reads your last fifty videos, works out your real median, your trajectory and the formats you've already proven, then matches them against what's breaking out in your niche right now.
Pick from ten ranked ideas
Not generic trends. Ideas filtered to fit what your audience already comes to you for, each with a predicted view range and the evidence behind it.
Score, package, film
Got your own idea? Score it. Strong ones move on to titles and packaging. Weak ones get fixed or killed before they cost you the week.
What you get
A number you can check.
A score you can't verify is just an opinion with a decimal point. Everything vidger says comes with the videos it learned it from.
Every verdict shows its evidence
Under each score sit the videos where this format already broke out, on channels close to your size, not on MrBeast. You see the multiplier, how fresh the format is, and how many different creators it worked for. A format that worked once is luck. A format that worked for six channels is a repeatable play.
Titles judged the same way as ideas
vidger writes ten titles for the idea you scored, using the packaging of the breakouts in your niche as its reference — the price contrast, the admission of failure, the specific number. Each option goes back through the same formula, so you get a score next to it rather than a list to guess from.
Your ideas stay, and they teach it
Every idea you score is saved with its packaging and, once you publish, with what actually happened. After six months it stops being a generic tool and becomes a record of what works on your channel specifically. Nothing you can export from a competitor replaces that.
It keeps score of itself
Every prediction is stored. When the video goes live, vidger pulls the real numbers and compares. You see how often it lands inside the range it promised — for your channel, not in a marketing claim. If the tool stops being useful, you'll know before we do.
Straight answers
What vidger won't tell you.
Other tools sell numbers they can't possibly have. Here's exactly where the data ends, so you know what you're paying for.
No click-through rate
YouTube doesn't publish CTR, impressions or retention for anyone else's videos. Nobody has that data. Any tool promising to predict a stranger's CTR is inventing it.
A range, not a promise
You get a floor and a ceiling for a channel your size. A strong score means the odds are with you, not that the video is safe. Anyone selling certainty about YouTube is selling something else.
A few niches, done properly
Depth beats coverage. vidger supports a short list of niches with full daily history rather than all of YouTube at a useless depth. If yours isn't live, vote for it and you'll get a free month when it is.
The best thing this tool will ever do for you is invisible. It's the video you didn't make.
Stop finding out after you publish.
Paste your channel and see the ten ideas it gives you. Ten seconds, no card, and you'll know within a minute whether the scores match your instinct.
How it works
Statistics, not vibes.
vidger doesn't ask a language model what it thinks of your idea. It measures your idea against a database of what already happened in your niche, using seven components with fixed weights. Here's all of it.
Your channel median
Median views across your last thirty videos. This is the base the prediction is built from, which is why the range for a 20k channel looks nothing like the range for a 500k one.
Outlier multiplier
How many times over their own median similar videos went in your niche. A format that regularly does 6× is a different proposition from one that does 1.4×.
Format age
Weeks since the format first spiked. Under two weeks it's unproven. Two to eight is the window. After that it's a format you're late to, and the score drops accordingly.
Saturation
How many videos in that format shipped in the last four weeks. Too few and it isn't proven. Too many and it's burnt out. Both ends of that curve lower the score.
Fit to your channel
How far the topic drifts from what you normally publish. YouTube punishes drift harder than most creators expect, and this is the single most common reason a good idea underperforms on the wrong channel.
Channel trajectory
Whether you're growing or sliding over ninety days. Predicting from a flat median on a declining channel overstates every number, so this corrects it.
Velocity
How fast comparable videos gathered views in their first days, not their lifetime total. YouTube's API only gives a running counter, so this only exists because vidger has been taking daily snapshots since before you signed up.
Where the data comes from
Public data, collected properly.
Official API, daily
Every tracked channel in every supported niche is refreshed once a day through YouTube's official API. No scraping shortcuts, no grey-area data.
Our own history
The API gives you a lifetime view counter and nothing else. vidger stores a daily snapshot of every video, which is how it can tell a format that's rising from one that peaked a month ago.
Your channel stays yours
Connecting a channel is read-only and optional. Without it you still get scores and evidence, just benchmarked against the niche rather than against your own median.
The part nobody else does
Every prediction gets marked.
A prediction you never check isn't a prediction, it's a horoscope. When a scored video goes live, vidger pulls the real numbers and files them against what it promised. You see the hit rate, the median error, and how many ideas you dropped because of a low score.
This is also the honest answer to "why keep paying". Not because the tool is clever, but because you can see what it saved you.
Pricing
Cheaper than one wasted week.
A video costs you days. The tool that stops the wrong one costs less than lunch. Cancel whenever you like.
- Channel analysis once a month
- 3 of your 10 ideas
- 3 idea scores a month
- 1 evidence video per score
- All free tools, no limits
- Unlimited channel analysis
- All 10 ideas, refreshed weekly
- Unlimited idea scores
- Three weaknesses on every score
- Full evidence list
- 50 title packages a month
- Idea bank with published results
- Accuracy report
- Weekly niche briefing by email
- Everything in Creator
- Up to 5 channels
- 300 title packages a month
- Alerts when a rival breaks out
- Version history in the idea bank
- Channel-to-channel comparison
- CSV export and client report links
- Priority on new niches
| Feature | Free | Creator | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding what to make | |||
| Channel analysis | Once a month | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Ranked ideas | 3 of 10 | All 10, weekly | All 10, weekly |
| Idea scoring | 3 a month | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Three weaknesses | — | Yes | Yes |
| Evidence videos | 1 per score | Full list | Full list |
| Scoring without a channel | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Packaging | |||
| Title generation | — | 50 a month | 300 a month |
| Packaging patterns from breakouts | — | Yes | Yes |
| Keeping track | |||
| Idea bank | — | Yes | Yes, with versions |
| Accuracy report | — | Yes | Yes |
| Weekly niche briefing | — | Yes | Yes |
| Competitor breakout alerts | — | — | Yes |
| Working with others | |||
| Channels per workspace | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Channel comparison | — | — | Yes |
| CSV export and report links | — | — | Yes |
| Priority on new niches | — | — | Yes |
Questions people ask first
How accurate is the score?+
How is this different from vidIQ or TubeBuddy?+
Do I have to connect my channel?+
Does it work for Shorts?+
My niche isn't listed. What now?+
What happens if I cancel?+
Is it useful if I'm starting a channel from scratch?+
Start on Free. Upgrade when it earns it.
Three scores a month is enough to find out whether the numbers match your instinct. That's the only test that matters.
Free tools
Four things you can use right now.
No account, no limits, no email. They're genuinely free because they're how most people find vidger in the first place.
Revenue calculator
Estimate what a channel earns from ads, using RPM bands by niche and audience geography rather than one global average.
Tag extractor
Pull the tags off any public video, see which ones actually appear on the breakouts in that niche, and which are dead weight nobody searches for.
Thumbnail analyser
Break a thumbnail into the devices it's using — contrast, face, number, promise, conflict — and compare it against what's winning in the same niche this month.
In developmentMonetisation check
Run a topic or a script past the advertiser-friendly guidelines before you film, and see which sections are likely to cost you the green icon.
In developmentThese tell you where you stand. vidger tells you what to do next.
A calculator can price your channel. It can't tell you which video to make on Thursday. That's the part we charge for.