How many should I ask for?

Ten is a good default. Beyond about fifteen the later entries start reaching for variety rather than quality and you end up rejecting most of them. Three is right when you already know the angle and want the phrasing tightened.

Why does it refuse to write clickbait?

Because it does not work twice. A headline that promises more than the article delivers earns the click and loses the reader, and search engines have measured that pattern for years. Curiosity built on something the piece actually contains does work, and that is what the curious setting produces.

Can I use it for a video or a podcast episode?

Yes — choose the video platform setting, which front-loads the title so it survives being cut off on a phone. The same setting suits podcast episodes, which are truncated in much the same way in most apps.

Should I paste the whole article?

You can, and the titles improve when you do, because it can pick the concrete detail that makes a headline specific. Up to eight thousand characters fits. If the piece is longer, paste the opening and any section that carries the main finding.

Headline Generator

Ten titles for one article, without the clickbait unless you ask.

This tool sends your text to a server. Nothing else on this site does.

What the piece is about

0 of 8,000 characters

Result

Press Generate titles and the answer is written here.

Where this one is different

Every other tool on this site does its work inside the tab you have open. Files are read by your own browser, nothing is uploaded, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected. That is not true here. The AI tools need a language model, a language model is far too large to run in a browser tab, so the text you put in the box is sent to our server and passed to an AI provider to be worked on.

What is sent is the text you typed and the settings you chose. Nothing else — no file you have used elsewhere on this site, no record of other tools you have opened, and no identifier, because there are no accounts here to identify you with. Your text is not written to any database, log or file that we keep. The provider’s own retention is the provider’s, which is the honest limit of what anyone can promise about text sent off a device.

So the practical advice is the plain one: do not paste anything here you would not paste into someone else’s website — client data, credentials, unpublished work, medical or legal details. For everything else, use it freely. And read what comes back: it is generated, it can be wrong, and it is confident either way.

Ask about Headline Generator

Questions about what this tool does, which option to pick, or what it can and cannot handle.

The question you type here is sent to an AI provider to be answered — your files and whatever you put in the tool above are not, and the assistant cannot see them. Answers are generated and can be wrong. So is what the tool above produces — it runs on a model too.

About the Headline Generator

A title has one job, which is to tell the right person that this is for them. Almost everything that goes wrong with headlines is a failure to do that in favour of doing something else — being clever, being intriguing, or covering the subject so broadly that it describes four hundred other articles equally well.

Give this page the subject and it returns a set of options, numbered, one per line. They are meant to be genuinely different from each other rather than one title reworded ten times, because a list of near-identical options is a list of one option.

The platform setting is not cosmetic, since each has a different constraint. A blog title is aiming at fifty to sixty characters so a search result does not truncate it. A video title is front-loaded, because on a phone only the first four words are visible. An email subject line has under forty-five characters and must survive being read with no surrounding context in a crowded inbox. A report title carries no wordplay and no question mark. A news headline names the actor and uses the present tense.

The flavour setting controls the register, and the curiosity setting is the one worth explaining. Curiosity that works comes from naming a real tension or an unexpected specific that the piece genuinely contains. Curiosity that does not comes from withholding the subject, which produces a click and then a reader who feels tricked. The instruction here is for the first kind only: nothing that would disappoint someone who clicked it.

There is a banned list, and it is there because these phrases have been used past the point of meaning anything. Ultimate. Complete guide. Everything you need to know. Game-changer. Unlock. Delve. In today's fast-paced world. Along with the colon used to bolt a vague promise onto the end of a real title.

How to use it

1Describe what the piece is about — a sentence or two is plenty, or paste the opening paragraph.
2Pick the platform, which sets the length limit and the shape.
3Choose a flavour, or leave it mixed to get a spread of forms to compare.
4Run it, then read the list for the one that names the specific thing your piece has.
5Take the best option and edit it. The list is raw material, not a decision.

Questions

How many should I ask for?: Ten is a good default. Beyond about fifteen the later entries start reaching for variety rather than quality and you end up rejecting most of them. Three is right when you already know the angle and want the phrasing tightened.
Why does it refuse to write clickbait?: Because it does not work twice. A headline that promises more than the article delivers earns the click and loses the reader, and search engines have measured that pattern for years. Curiosity built on something the piece actually contains does work, and that is what the curious setting produces.
Can I use it for a video or a podcast episode?: Yes — choose the video platform setting, which front-loads the title so it survives being cut off on a phone. The same setting suits podcast episodes, which are truncated in much the same way in most apps.
Should I paste the whole article?: You can, and the titles improve when you do, because it can pick the concrete detail that makes a headline specific. Up to eight thousand characters fits. If the piece is longer, paste the opening and any section that carries the main finding.