YouTube Upload Schedule Planner
Plan your YouTube upload days, check the plan fits the hours you have, and get publish dates with a date to start work by. Free, no signup.
Planning, filming, editing and uploading. Your own estimate.
How early you begin each video.
Add it to see calendar dates. Without it, the plan lists the days of the week.
1 to 12.
This plan fits your week
2 videos a week needs about 12 hours. You have 15.
- OK: You would have about 3 hours a week to spare.
Your weeks
- Week 1Tuesday
- Week 1Friday
- Week 2Tuesday
- Week 2Friday
- Week 3Tuesday
- Week 3Friday
- Week 4Tuesday
- Week 4Friday
Good to know
- This tool does not know when your viewers are online, so it does not suggest days or times. In YouTube Studio, the Audience tab shows when your viewers are on YouTube. Pick days that suit you and your audience.
- A rhythm you can keep is better than a busy one you cannot. If the plan does not fit your hours, publish on fewer days.
- A common way to stay on schedule is to finish a video or two ahead of time, so one bad week does not leave a gap.
- The hours are your own estimates. Time a few real videos, and replace the numbers with what you find.
- Videos can be scheduled in YouTube Studio. When you upload, choose Schedule and set the date and time.
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About the Upload Schedule Planner
?What the upload schedule planner does
You choose the days you will publish, how many hours a video takes you, and how many hours you have each week. The tool checks whether the plan fits your time and lists your publish dates, each with a date to start work by.
It uses only the numbers you give it. It does not know when your viewers are online, so it does not recommend days or times. It plans your workload, not your audience.
Everything runs in your browser. What you type is not sent to our server.
→How to plan an upload schedule in 4 steps
Choose your publish days
Pick the days of the week you want to publish. The number of days is your videos a week.
Enter your hours
How many hours one video takes you, and how many hours you have each week for it.
Check the result
The tool tells you whether the plan fits, and by how much. If it does not, publish on fewer days.
Add a first day and copy
Choose the first day of your plan to get real dates, then copy the list for your calendar.
✓What is in the tool
Capacity check
Compares the hours your plan needs with the hours you have.
Your own days
You choose the publish days, up to seven a week.
Start-work dates
A date to begin each video, a set number of days before it publishes.
Real dates
Add a first day and the plan shows calendar dates for up to 12 weeks.
Copy the plan
Copy the whole list for your calendar or notes.
No made-up advice
No “best days” or times, because the tool has no data on your audience.
★Examples
Two videos a week
Publish Tuesday and Friday, 6 hours a video, 15 hours a week.
Example:
The plan needs 12 hours and leaves about 3 hours to spare, so it fits.
A plan that is too much
Three videos a week at 6 hours each, with 15 hours available.
Example:
The plan needs 18 hours, so it is 3 hours a week short. Publishing on two days would fit.
A calendar for the month
Add the first day of the plan, and plan four weeks.
Example:
The tool lists each publish date, such as Fri 6 Nov and Tue 10 Nov, with a start-work date a week earlier.
♥Limits to know about
It plans your time, not your audience
Use the Audience tab in YouTube Studio to see when your viewers are online.
Only as good as your estimate
Time a few real videos to get the hours right.
It does not post for you
You schedule the upload in YouTube Studio yourself.