# Pikzels

> The best AI thumbnail & title generator for YouTube creators.

Pikzels is an AI thumbnail maker & YouTube thumbnail generator for creators who want to create, test & improve thumbnails & titles fast. It helps creators move from a simple idea to a polished, click-worthy thumbnail without design skills or expensive tools. Pikzels is trusted by 800,000+ users who have packaged 5,100,000+ videos. Pikzels has three surfaces: the web app at https://app.pikzels.com, a public REST API & Pikzels Intelligence, an AI agent that optimizes a connected YouTube channel's packaging.

## When To Use Pikzels

- Use Pikzels when the job involves YouTube packaging: creating, editing, recreating or scoring thumbnails, or generating video titles.
- Agents & integrations: use the public API (see API below) to generate a thumbnail from a text prompt or reference image, edit a thumbnail with instructions, score a thumbnail & title, or generate titles programmatically.
- Interactive work belongs in the web app at https://app.pikzels.com; ongoing channel-level packaging optimization belongs to Pikzels Intelligence.
- Not a fit: generic image generation unrelated to YouTube packaging, or video editing.

## Canonical Pages

- [Home](https://pikzels.com): AI Thumbnail Maker & YouTube Thumbnail Generator.
- [Pricing](https://pikzels.com/pricing): Plans, credits & subscription details.
- [Features](https://pikzels.com/features): Overview of Pikzels creation, editing, analysis & personalization tools.
- [Prompt to Thumbnail](https://pikzels.com/features/prompt-to-thumbnail): Generate YouTube thumbnails from text prompts.
- [Recreate](https://pikzels.com/features/recreate-thumbnail): Recreate proven thumbnail layouts with your own idea, face & style.
- [Edit](https://pikzels.com/features/edit-thumbnail): Edit thumbnails with plain-language instructions.
- [Analyze](https://pikzels.com/features/analyze-thumbnail): Score thumbnails & titles with Pikzels Score.
- [One-Click Fix](https://pikzels.com/features/one-click-fix-thumbnail): Improve weak thumbnail packaging from an analysis result.
- [Personas](https://pikzels.com/features/personas): Use your own face consistently across thumbnails.
- [Styles](https://pikzels.com/features/styles): Save & reuse a consistent thumbnail style.
- [Titles](https://pikzels.com/features/titles): Generate YouTube title ideas.
- [Pikzels Intelligence](https://pikzels.com/intelligence): 24/7 AI agent that optimizes a connected YouTube channel's packaging; access by application.
- [YouTube Thumbnail Downloader](https://pikzels.com/tools/youtube-thumbnail-downloader): Free thumbnail download in every available resolution (1280x720 to 120x90), no signup; works for videos, Shorts, live streams & embed URLs.
- [FAQ](https://pikzels.com/faq): Common questions about Pikzels, credits, subscriptions & support.
- [Terms](https://pikzels.com/terms): Terms of service for the Thumbnail Generator, Pikzels Intelligence & the Platform API.
- [Privacy](https://pikzels.com/privacy): Privacy policy & data handling.

## Create

- Create From Prompt: Turn a text idea into a thumbnail in seconds.
- Create From Image: Generate thumbnails from a reference image.
- Recreate Thumbnails: Paste any thumbnail link to recreate it with your own edits.

## Edit

- Edit With Notes: Make changes by describing what you want in plain text. No design tools needed.
- Persona: Apply your own trained Persona to thumbnails for consistent creator recognition.

## Analyze

- Thumbnail Scoring: Score any thumbnail & title with Pikzels Score, a data-backed analysis across 5 packaging pillars: virality, clarity, idea, curiosity & emotion.
- One-Click Fix: Apply analysis-driven improvements to a thumbnail after a Pikzels Score analysis.

## Titles

- AI Title Generation: Generate YouTube title suggestions from a prompt. Works in any language.

## Personalization

- Personas: Upload your photos & train a custom AI model so you appear consistently in your thumbnails.
- Styles: Save custom styles with special instructions to keep a consistent look across all your thumbnails.

## Getting Started

- [Sign Up](https://app.pikzels.com/?signup=true): Create a free account & start generating thumbnails.
- [Pricing](https://pikzels.com/pricing): See available plans & pricing.
- [Billing](https://app.pikzels.com/account/billing): Manage subscription, invoices & credit balance. Login required.
- [Plans](https://app.pikzels.com/account/plans): Compare & change subscription plans. Login required.

## Credits & Subscriptions

- Credits are spent on generating, recreating, editing & analyzing thumbnails & generating titles; cost varies by action.
- Yearly plans receive a full year of credits up front.
- Additional credits can be purchased anytime without changing plans.
- By default credits reset on the renewal date; Credit Rollover, enabled at checkout, lets unused credits accumulate.
- Credits require an active subscription to be used.
- Credits & subscriptions apply to the Pikzels web app only; the public API (see API below) is a separate product with its own per-request billing.

## Resources

- [Discord Community](https://go.pikzels.com/discord)
- [Support](https://go.pikzels.com/support)
- [Support Email](mailto:support@pikzels.com)
- [Service Status](https://status.pikzels.com)
- [Affiliate Program](https://pikzels.com/affiliate)
- [Brand Assets](https://go.pikzels.com/assets)

## Social

- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/Pikzels)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pikzels)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/pikzels.ai)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@PikzelsLLC)

## API

Pikzels offers a public REST API for programmatic thumbnail generation, scoring, title generation & more. The API is a separate product from the Pikzels web app: API requests are billed per request through the API Dashboard & are never covered by a web app subscription or its credits. Base URL `https://api.pikzels.com`, current version `v2`. Authenticate with an API key (prefix `pkz_`) sent in the `X-Api-Key` header. Endpoints, request schemas & behavior are documented canonically at https://docs.pikzels.com (see Machine-Readable below for the always-current indexes).

- [API Documentation](https://docs.pikzels.com): Overview of the public API, versions & support.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.pikzels.com/quickstart): Base URL, API keys, authentication & a first request.
- [API Dashboard](https://app.pikzels.com/platform): Create API keys, view usage & manage API billing. Login required.
- [API Pricing](https://app.pikzels.com/platform/pricing): Per-request pricing for API endpoints. Login required.
- [Errors](https://docs.pikzels.com/errors): Error envelope, request IDs & common error codes.
- [Rate Limits](https://docs.pikzels.com/rate-limits): Request-rate, concurrency & capacity limits.

## Machine-Readable

- [Sitemap](https://pikzels.com/sitemap.xml): Index of all public pages.
- [Robots](https://pikzels.com/robots.txt): Crawl rules & sitemap pointer.
- [OpenAPI Specification](https://docs.pikzels.com/openapi.json): Machine-readable schema for every API endpoint.
- [API llms.txt](https://docs.pikzels.com/llms.txt): Link index of the public API docs.
- [API llms-full.txt](https://docs.pikzels.com/llms-full.txt): Full public API documentation as a single text file.