CreatorHat
See which videos are beating their channels, then use that evidence to choose stronger keywords and titles. CreatorHat brings the useful YouTube research tools to Safari.
No login. No API key.
$29.99 a year. No monthly plan. No separate AI bill.
Find the videos performing far above a channel's usual results. Research the phrases viewers actually type. CreatorHat puts that evidence inside YouTube for $29.99 a year, with no CreatorHat account, API key, or monthly AI bill.
Raw views favor large channels. CreatorHat compares a video's views per day with that channel's recent normal, so a genuine breakout is easy to spot.
Start with phrases YouTube itself suggests. CreatorHat checks the current competition and the views per day earned by ranking videos instead of inventing a monthly search-volume number.
While YouTube processes the upload, CreatorHat transcribes the video on your Mac and prepares title choices, a description, and competitor research beside the Studio fields.
See what CreatorHat covers, what it does not, and why it is a separate Safari-native alternative.
Read the honest comparison → Research method / 02Compare each video's pace with its channel's normal instead of sorting by the biggest lifetime number.
See how outlier finding works → Browser gap / 03See where the products overlap, what CreatorHat leaves out, and why it is a separate Safari alternative.
Read the honest comparison → Research method / 04Start with YouTube's own suggestions, then inspect the current competition and the videos already earning views.
See the keyword workflow →Practical guides for your next upload and the research before it.
CreatorHat adds views-per-day and channel-relative breakout signals, keyword research, rank checks, channel audits, and writing help inside YouTube and YouTube Studio in Safari.
No. CreatorHat uses the YouTube pages already open in Safari. There is no CreatorHat account and no API key to paste.
Local transcription and writing suggestions use Apple's on-device models. The public stats, keyword research, outlier checks, and rank tracking do not depend on a separate AI subscription.
No. It gives you better evidence for choosing topics and packaging a video. The video still has to earn the click and keep the viewer.
CreatorHat has no account system and no server. The extension talks to YouTube from Safari. Your local transcripts and saved research stay on your Mac.
I've been building software for 25+ years, from Highrise and Draft to two trips through Y Combinator. I was a founding engineer at Census through its acquisition by Fivetran.
CreatorHat came out of making YouTube videos with my daughter. I wanted a smaller tool that helped inside YouTube without asking for another account or sending our work through somebody else's server.
I also make AlliHat, which lets you ask Claude or ChatGPT about the page you're reading in Safari.
Need anything? Email me at nate@ninjasandrobots.com.