Starting a YouTube channel can be such a daunting task.
There are many steps to produce just one video – idea, scripting, voiceover, recording, editing, thumbnail design, SEO, and many more little steps in between.
Luckily, AI can help with that.
I’ve tested out many AI video creation tools to help with my YouTube channel and compiled all the best ones I found into this list.
(And they do everything).
From enhancing the look of thumbnails to AI voice generation and even generating copyright-free music for your videos.
So, let’s get started.
What are the best AI tools for YouTubers?
Here are my top picks for AI tools for YouTubers to use this year:
1. Murf AI
Finding a good AI voice for a YouTube automation channel is hard.
That’s where Murf AI comes in.
It lets you make studio-quality voiceovers in minutes.
The first time I tried it I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
The voices that it created sounded so real.
It’s probably the best AI voice generator out there (at least from the one’s that I’ve tried).
Price: there’s a free version that lets you try out all the AI voices for free and then starts at $19/month.
2. LuminarAI
Thumbnails are so important on YouTube
“If the viewers don’t click they don’t watch” – Mr.Beast
It doesn’t matter if your video is perfect.
If the thumbnail doesn’t make the viewer click, no one’s going to watch it.
That’s where Luminar AI comes in.
It’s a photo editing software fully powered by artificial intelligence.
Best of all, it’s designed for beginners who don’t have too much knowledge about editing photos.
Price: $10/mo or $150 one-time payment
It’s the best AI tool for enhancing thumbnails to make them pop.
3. NotionAI
Notion.
Everyone’s heard of it but most are too afraid to commit to this amazing tool because it seems too complicated.
Well, it’s not.
Especially now that it has AI built in.
Notion AI is like a personal assistant to your life.
Price: $10/mo
Messy notes? Have Notion AI summarize them.
Bad grammar? AI can fix it.
Want to use a simpler language or translate something? Sure.
Moreover, if you write scripts for your videos within Notion, its AI can help you rewrite sentences in simpler terms, brainstorm ideas, create script outlines, generate a summary with the most important takeaways, and much more.
Get a free Notion template with the tutorial for the game of YouTube
🚀 10+ Notion pages about how to play the YouTube game
⚙️ List of tools & gear for YouTubers
🧑⚖️ How to make your first video and get your channel off the ground
💰 Detailed guide about finding your niche & making money
4. VoiceOverMaker
If you’re doing YouTube automation then you know the importance of having a good voice-over.
VoiceOverMaker is an online AI voice generator.
It can create natural-sounding voice-overs from text using AI.
Price: free 800 credit. Then starts at $9 for 60000 credits.
There are hundreds of natural-sounding AI voices to choose from in almost every single language.
Moreover, the site has YouTube tutorials that showcase how to record voice-overs for YouTube videos, how to use their text-to-speech editor, how to turn articles into voice-overs, and more.
5. Leia Pix
Editing videos is hard.
Even a marginal quality improvement leads to hours of additional work.
When importing an image into your timeline its a common practice to add a slight zoom in or zoom out to that image to make it feel alive.
This is called the Ken Burns effect.
It’s also great for retention.
Leia Pix takes this to a completely new level.
This AI tool literally makes your images feel alive.
It separates the background and the foreground of your image and makes them move individually giving the appearance as if that picture is a video.
6. Canva
Surprisingly more and more graphic designers and YouTubers choose to use Canva for simple projects.
It’s just so simple.
Even though most of Canva is not AI, it does have some handy AI tools built in.
The magic eraser lets you seamlessly remove objects from images as though they were never there.
The background remover analyzes the image and removes the background from it (extremely useful for thumbnails).
The magic edit tool lets you generate objects within images by simply painting an area of the image where you want that object to appear.
Price: there’s a free version or Canva Pro starts at $10/month.
7. JasperAI
ChatGPT is great.
But only if you know how to use it. You need to have the right prompt ready and know the best way to ask it to generate text for you.
That’s where JasperAI comes in.
Jasper is specifically designed for writing copy that sells (with AI of coure).
Whether it’s emails, YouTube titles, video scripts, or product sales pages it has a personalized AI that can do it for you.
It’s the best copywriting assistant that you can have.
Price: starts at $39/month but offers a free 7-day trial.
8. Soundraw
It’s hard to find copyright-free music for YouTube.
Most free tracks are boring and overused.
Of course you can use a service like Epidemic Sound which has a massive library of insanely high-quality songs for videos.
But you can take it to the next level with Soundraw.
It’s an AI tool that lets you generate royalty-free music for YouTube videos with AI.
Price: $16.99/month
You just choose the mood, the genre and the length of the song that you want to generate. Then Soundraw’s AI will generate a beautiful song for you.
But you can customize it even further.
After AI generates the first version of the song you can tell it to make it shorter or change the position of the chorus to perfectly match the song to your video, not the other way around.
9. Stream Yard
Video podcasts are huge on YouTube.
One of the best tools to help with creating video podcasts is Stream Yard.
It’s a professional live streaming and recording studio in your browser.
You can interview guests, customise the look of your broadcast, and much more.
It lets you stream to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other platforms.
Price: there’s a free version to try it out with their watermark and then starts at $20/month.
Bonus AI tools for YouTubers
Mijdourney – AI will generate images from text prompts that you create
Kittl AI – lets you generate vector logo icons, images, and clipart by using text prompts.
Quillbot – uses AI to paraphrase sentences to avoid plagiarism, make text simpler or sound more fluent.
Descript – creates a transcript of everything you say in a video and lets you edit it by simply deleting sentences (there’s not even a timeline).
VidIQ – uses AI to generate video ideas based on your channel niche (plus it’s a pretty good keyword research tool too, you can read more about it in my VidIQ review).
VEED – edit videos in your browser.
Was this list of the best AI tools for YouTubers useful?
Always keep in mind that growing a sustainable business with your YouTube channel, even with AI, takes a lot of time and effort.
In the end – the critical factor is you.
AI can’t do everything for you (yet).
It’s important to use the tools at your disposal as just that – tools.
This means that even if the tool is great if you don’t know how to use it, it will not work well at all.
With that said, I will leave you with a few resources that will help you grow your YouTube channel:
How to make money from YouTube (without Adsense)
Best stock video sites for YouTubers
How to explode your channel growth with Shorts
Thanks for reading 👋.
Get a free Notion template with the tutorial for the game of YouTube
🚀 10+ Notion pages about how to play the YouTube game
⚙️ List of tools & gear for YouTubers
🧑⚖️ How to make your first video and get your channel off the ground
💰 Detailed guide about finding your niche & making money