A YouTube video scheduler with the whole upload form
Set the category, thumbnail, playlist and visibility of a video or a Short when you write it. sona.to uploads it with every setting in place at the time you choose.
Start free todayA YouTube upload has more fields than a file and a title. There is a category, a thumbnail, tags, a playlist, a visibility setting, an audience setting and a licence. In sona.to all of them are in the composer, so the video is complete when it publishes and there is nothing left to change in YouTube Studio afterwards.
The upload form in the composer
Three fields are always visible: the video type, which is Video or Short, the title and the category. The rest are in rows you open when you need them: thumbnail, tags, visibility, playlist, altered content, and a last row for the licence, the languages and the recording date.
A field you leave empty is not sent to YouTube, the same as in YouTube Studio.
Every setting saves with the draft. Open the draft again later and the thumbnail, tags, category, playlist and visibility are as you left them.
Language, licence and recording date
Set the language of the video and, separately, the language of its title and description. Both come from YouTube's own list of eighty three languages, so any language you pick is one YouTube accepts.
The licence is standard YouTube or Creative Commons.
The recording date is the day the video was filmed, which can be different from the day it publishes.
Thumbnails and playlists
Attach a custom thumbnail in the composer and it is uploaded with the video. You can remove it and choose another before the post publishes. Custom thumbnails need a verified YouTube channel.
The playlist field lists the playlists on your channel. Pick one and the video is added to it after the upload finishes, with no second step in YouTube Studio.
Visibility and audience
Set the video to public, unlisted or private before it is uploaded. The same row holds the audience setting, which says whether the video is made for kids, and whether the video can be embedded on other sites.
The altered content row is where you declare realistic content that was made or changed with AI.
Timing
A video published when your subscribers are awake gets its first views sooner. After that, YouTube videos keep getting views through search for months. So the hour matters less than on Mastodon or Bluesky, where posts appear in time order, and more than on Pinterest, where most views come from search.
With a queue you can finish a video on Sunday and have it publish on Tuesday morning. Our guide to the best time to post on social media covers which hours tend to work best on each network.