Best Free Thumbnail Maker Tools For YouTube

YouTube thumbnails are a very important part of creating content on YouTube.

Attractive thumbnails can increase your CTR on videos and help to increase watch time in your videos. Ultimately this can help you grow your channel organically without having to spend money on ads and promotions.

There are many tools that you can use to create thumbnails for YouTube. Here I have compiled best tools for everyone.

Even if you don’t have a slightest idea of graphic designing, here are tools for you. And if you are a professional, I have listed the tools for you as well.

1. Canva

Canva is one of my best free tools and I recommend every YouTuber must have it.

With canva you can create thumbnails, logo and channel art for your YouTube videos without much knowledge of Graphic designing.

There are templates available which you can edit as per your requirements and you can create amazing thumbnails in matter of minutes.

Also Canva is a great tool to create graphics for other social media channels.

2. Pixellab

If you are on smartphone and want to create thumbnails on mobile phone. Pixellab is one of the best options. You can use this app to create graphics for YouTube channel as well as other social media pages.

It is simple to use and you can create stunning thumbnails right from your phone with this app.

Canva and Pixellab are great for someone who doesn’t have much knowledge in creating thumbnails for YouTube. These are also the best free tools for YouTubers.

3. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Free Alternatives

If you are looking for a professional software, then these are the best software in the market to create thumbnails and graphics for YouTube channel.

These are the professional graphics designing software which can fulfill most requirements for graphics designer.

There are different alternatives to Photoshop like Photopea and Pixlr which can be used online. Also Gimp is a free online software which can be agreat free alternative to Photoshop.

To create vector graphics, you can use Inkscape which is a great free alternative to Adobe Illustrator.

If you already know using Adobe’s software, you can easily learn using these software. These software may have a slight learning curve if you don’t have much idea about Adobe’s software before.

4. Edit.org

This is an online tools very similar to canva. It has premade templates for YouTubers to create YouTube logo, channel banner and thumbnails.

You can get started with free plan and upgrade as your requirements increase.

These are some of my favorite thumbnail makers(mostly free). Don’t forget to upvote if this helps.

Thank you!

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