Free outro maker: a YouTube end screen your elements drop straight onto.
Two video cards, a red Subscribe button that gets clicked, your logo, channel name and handle — 10, 15 or 20 seconds at 16:9, in seven styles that share their names and colours with the Intro Maker, so the video opens and closes as one thing. Everything sits inside YouTube's placement area, so the cards land where the real end-screen elements go when you drag them on in YouTube Studio. Preview every style without an account; 720p exports are free with a small mark, and clean 1080p comes with any plan.
- 7
- Outro styles
- Minimal White, Solid Metal, Glitterdust, Neon Power, Cinematic Letterbox, Vlog Frame, Retro Wave.
- 20
- Colour variants
- Two or three per style — gold, chrome or copper metal; cyan, magenta or lime neon.
- 3
- Layouts
- Two-up, side by side and one big card, on every style.
- 20 s
- Longest outro
- YouTube shows end-screen elements for at most 20 seconds, so that is the longest setting.
- Style cards are rendered with your own logo and channel name
- Cards are true 16:9, inside YouTube's placement area
- Safe-zone guides are preview only — never exported
- No watermark on any paid plan
What it is
An outro maker that builds the end screen, not the elements.
A YouTube outro is the last stretch of a video, and it has one job: carry the two thumbnails and the Subscribe button that YouTube draws on top. This outro maker builds that board. Type a channel name, an @handle, a closing line, two card titles and a social line, drop in a logo, and it lays out an end screen in one of seven styles — Minimal White, Solid Metal, Glitterdust, Neon Power, Cinematic Letterbox, Vlog Frame and Retro Wave, 20 colour variants between them. Choose a layout (two cards stacked with the channel column beside them, two cards across the middle, or one big card), a length of 10, 15 or 20 seconds, and a soundtrack. The cards are a backdrop, not buttons: in YouTube Studio you drag a Video element onto each card and the Subscribe element onto the channel circle, and they cover what is underneath — which is why every card here is a true 16:9 rectangle inside YouTube's placement area, and why there is a “Show YouTube safe zones” switch under the preview to show you exactly where they land. 16:9 only, because end screens only run on landscape videos.
How it works
How to make a YouTube outro in three steps
Put your channel in
Drop in a logo — PNG, SVG, JPEG or WebP; a transparent PNG gives the cleanest edge — or leave it out and the first letter of your channel name becomes a badge in the style's own material. Then the words: channel name (40 characters), @handle (30), closing line (60), two card titles (34 each), a social line (60) and the Subscribe button text (20).
Pick a style and a layout
The seven style cards are real frames of your own end screen — your logo, your channel name, your current layout — not colour swatches. Each has two or three colourways. Then choose two-up, side by side or a single big card, depending on whether you are sending people to two videos or one.
Set the length and download
10, 15 or 20 seconds — 20 by default, because that is the longest YouTube will show end-screen elements for. Pick a soundtrack or none, then press Download video. Free accounts export 720p with a small LazyKiwi mark, for personal use; any paid plan exports clean 1080p cleared for commercial use, and Pro adds 4K and 60 fps.
Seven styles
The same seven looks as your intro, so the pair matches
The Intro Maker has twelve styles; seven of them are here, with the same names, the same palettes and the same type — pick the one your intro uses and the video opens and closes as one piece. Minimal White is a paper-white press page under a single top light; Solid Metal sets gold or chrome hairlines on a black studio floor with a light sweep across it; Glitterdust spirals particles into the channel ring; Neon Power traces every card in neon tube with light beams turning behind; Cinematic Letterbox is widescreen bars, teal-and-orange haze and a flare across the closing line; Vlog Frame tapes the cards down like polaroids on pastel paper; and Retro Wave drops them into a synthwave sunset over a scrolling grid. Particles, neon, light sweeps and the grid are drawn live as the outro plays, not looped from stock.
- 20 colour variants across the seven styles
- Style cards render your own logo, name and layout
- Solid Metal, Glitterdust and Neon Power are premium styles — free to preview, exported with a credit pack or any plan
Built to the spec
Cards where YouTube's elements actually go — with the guides to prove it
YouTube shows end-screen elements over the last 5 to 20 seconds of a video (the video has to run at least 25 seconds to have an end screen at all), and it allows up to four of them on a 16:9 video: videos or playlists as 16:9 rectangles, one subscribe element as a circle, plus channel and link elements. So every card here is a true 16:9 rectangle and the channel avatar is a circle, sized and placed inside the placement area — 5% clear of each side, 8% clear of the top and 12% clear of the bottom, where the progress bar and player controls sit. Switch on “Show YouTube safe zones” under the preview and the dashed guides draw the element boxes, the subscribe circle and the control-bar exclusion right on your frame. The guides are preview only — the export never carries them.
- Two-up cards are 558×314 with a 240px subscribe circle at 1920×1080
- Side by side: 660×371 cards; single: one 980×551 card
- Elements are yours to drop on in YouTube Studio — the video is the backdrop
Three layouts
Two-up, side by side, or one big card
Every style supports all three, and switching relays the whole frame rather than nudging boxes around. Two-up stacks two cards on the left with the channel column — avatar, name, handle, Subscribe, social line — down the right; it is the arrangement most channels use. Side by side runs the two cards across the middle with the channel row underneath, which suits a closing line that needs the top of the frame. Single gives one big 980×551 card to a next video you really want watched, with the channel column beside it. Layout and style both travel in the link, so Neon Power, side by side opens ready to go.
- Two-up · Side by side · Single, on all seven styles
- Deep links carry ?style= and ?layout=
- Closing line, social line and the bell can each be left out
Your next two videos
Drop in the two thumbnails you want people to click
The end-screen cards are drawn as real YouTube cards — thumbnail, a duration pill in the corner, a red watched bar on the first one and a title underneath — so what you preview reads like the finished screen rather than an empty wireframe. Upload the two thumbnails of the videos you are pointing at and they are cropped to fill; leave them and a sample pair picked for the style is used; or switch the samples off and the cards become plain frames for the elements to cover. Card titles run to 34 characters each — "Watch next" and "Latest video" by default. The subscribe button animation is YouTube's own: the red pill lands, a cursor arrives and presses it, and it flips to the Subscribed state with the bell. Pick a soundtrack from 18 in-house tracks (two free, the rest with any plan) or export silent; the outro then holds still and does not fade out, because YouTube cuts the video there.
- Two thumbnail slots, or sample thumbnails, or plain frames
- The last 0.5 seconds do not fade — YouTube cuts it
- Nothing is uploaded to preview: logo and thumbnails are read in your browser
Inside the tool
Your words on the left, the end screen in the middle, styles on the right
There is no project to set up. The left rail holds the logo drop zone, the words and the two end-screen card slots; the stage in the middle plays the outro on a loop above a timeline split into its four beats; the right rail holds the seven style cards, the layout and length buttons, the soundtrack and the download button. The switch under the stage draws YouTube's safe zones over the frame.
Seven style cards, drawn with your brand
Each card is a real frame of that style at 6.2 seconds — Subscribed, bell and all — using your logo, channel name and current layout.
Show YouTube safe zones
One switch draws the element boxes, the subscribe circle and the control-bar exclusion. Preview only: the export never carries the guides.
Four beats on the timeline
Closing line, End-screen cards, Subscribe, Hold. The click lands at 3.9 seconds and the frame holds from 5 seconds to the end.
All seven
Seven end screens, one channel
Each tile is the same channel and the same Subscribe click in a different style: Minimal White · Studio, Solid Metal · Gold, Glitterdust · Gold dust, Neon Power · Cyan, Cinematic Letterbox · Teal & orange, Vlog Frame · Peach and Retro Wave · Outrun. Your logo, words and thumbnails stay put while you click between them.
Minimal White
Paper-white board, one top light, graphite type and real shadows under the cards.
Solid Metal
Gold or chrome hairlines on a black studio floor, a light sweep gliding across.
Glitterdust
Night dust spiralling into the channel ring, cards condensing out of the glow.
Neon Power
Neon tube traced around each card and the channel ring, beams turning behind.
Cinematic Letterbox
Widescreen bars, teal-and-orange haze and a flare crossing the closing line.
Vlog Frame
Pastel paper, cards taped down like polaroids, the closing line handwritten.
Retro Wave
Synthwave sunset over a scrolling grid, chrome italic name, magenta glow on the cards.
Why LazyKiwi
Why make your outro here
Preview without signing up
Open the tool and an end screen is already playing with a sample channel. Every style, colour, layout and length can be tried before you make an account; you sign in when you download.
It is built on YouTube's own rules
Element sizes, the 5–20 second window, the circle for subscribe, the clearance for the progress bar and controls. The safe-zone overlay shows the boxes on your frame, so what you place in YouTube Studio lands where the design says it will.
It pairs with your intro
Seven styles carry the same names and palettes as the Intro Maker, so the opener and the close are the same design rather than two things that happen to sit on the same channel.
No render queue
The preview draws in your browser tab, so a style or layout change shows up at once and an export starts straight away. Nobody emails you a link when it is ready.
Ready for a monetised channel
Any paid plan exports at 1080p with no watermark and clears the video for commercial use — monetised uploads, sponsored videos and client work. Pro adds 4K and 60 fps.
Your files are read in your browser
The logo and the two thumbnails are read and drawn locally; nothing is uploaded just to show you a style. They reach our servers only when a signed-in export saves the project, or when you choose cloud render.
Outro maker, template render site or general video editor
Three ways to get a YouTube outro, and what changes when the end screen is drawn live in your browser to YouTube's own placement rules. The other two columns are from renderforest.com/outro-maker and from the online editors at veed.io, flexclip.com and invideo.io as of September 2026.
LazyKiwi Outro Maker
What you get here
- Every edit plays back live in the browser — no account needed to preview or to try a premium style
- Cards and subscribe circle placed inside YouTube's element area, with a safe-zone overlay you can switch on
- Seven styles that share their names and colours with our Intro Maker, so the pair matches
- 10, 15 or 20 seconds and three layouts, rebuilt for the frame rather than trimmed
- Unlimited 720p exports with a small mark on the free plan; clean 1080p with commercial use on any paid plan
A template render site
Pick scenes, render on a server
- A large catalogue of outro templates — an end-screen pack of 30 scenes, an outro pack of 70 — with colour styles per scene
- The guest editor lets you retype the placeholder lines, but Preview and Export both open a sign-up wall
- Scenes are fixed lengths (5–15 seconds; the video-holder ones are locked to 10)
- Free exports are 360p with a watermark; 720p, 1080p and 4K each sit on a higher tier
- The empty frames are decoration — they are not placed against YouTube's element area
A general online editor
Build it on a timeline
- A full editor: stock clips, text, transitions, brand kits — an outro is one thing you can build in it
- No end-screen layout to start from; you place the thumbnails and the subscribe circle yourself
- Exports and watermark removal sit on the subscription, and rendering happens on their servers
Pricing & limits
A free outro maker, and what paying unlocks
Every style, layout and length plays in the live preview with your own logo, and the free plan gives you unlimited 720p exports with a small LazyKiwi mark, for personal use. Paying unlocks the rest: a one-time credit pack removes the mark and lets you export the three premium styles; any paid plan adds 1080p and commercial use, which is what a monetised channel, a sponsored video or client work needs; Pro adds 4K and 60 fps. Cloud render is optional, at 5 credits per 20 seconds — one outro.
Unlimited exports
Free · 720p
- 720p MP4 with a small LazyKiwi mark, for personal use
- Any plan or credit pack removes the mark
- Exports at 16:9 — the ratio this tool is built around
- No card required to open, edit or preview
- Every style in the live preview — Solid Metal, Glitterdust and Neon Power need a credit pack or a plan to export
1080p on any paid plan
1080p · 4K
- Same clip, same edit, rendered clean at 1080p — commercial use included
- 4K, 60 fps and transparent ProRes on Pro and above
No credits to export
Renders in your browser
- Trying styles, layouts and lengths with your own logo and thumbnails re-render locally and spend no credits
- No upload queue and no render wait to pay for
- Optional cloud render, every frame stable: 5 credits per 20 seconds
FAQ
Outro maker questions, answered
Is this YouTube outro maker free?+
Yes, to try and for personal use. Every style, colour, layout and length plays in the live preview without an account, and a free account exports 720p with a small LazyKiwi mark in the corner, as often as you like. Three premium styles — Solid Metal, Glitterdust and Neon Power — export with a one-time credit pack or any paid plan; the credit pack also removes the watermark. To put the outro on a monetised channel, a sponsored video or a client's video, use a paid plan: clean 1080p cleared for commercial use, with 4K and 60 fps on Pro.
Are the video cards in the outro clickable?+
Not by themselves — and nothing made in any outro maker is. Only YouTube can make an element clickable, and you add those in YouTube Studio: open the video, go to End screen, and drag a Video element onto each card and the Subscribe element onto the channel circle. The elements sit on top and cover what is underneath, so the card art you export is the backdrop that makes them look designed. That is the whole reason the cards here are true 16:9 rectangles at the sizes YouTube uses, inside the placement area — switch on Show YouTube safe zones to see the boxes on your own frame.
How long should a YouTube outro be?+
Between 5 and 20 seconds, because that is the window YouTube shows end-screen elements in, and the video has to run at least 25 seconds to have an end screen at all. Twenty seconds is the default here and the most common choice — it gives viewers time to read two thumbnails and click. Pick 10 or 15 if your outro follows a long sign-off or you upload short videos. The three lengths change how long the finished screen holds; the entrance keeps the same rhythm.
How do I add the end screen in YouTube Studio?+
Put the exported MP4 at the end of your timeline in your editor, so the last 20 seconds of the video are the outro, and upload as usual. Then in YouTube Studio open the video, choose End screen, and drag the elements onto the frame: a Video or Playlist element onto each card, the Subscribe element onto the channel circle. Set the element timing to match the outro, and save. YouTube keeps that arrangement as a YouTube end screen template, so the next upload takes the same layout in one click — and the same exported outro sits under it.
What size is a YouTube outro, and why is 16:9 the only option?+
1920×1080, 16:9 — end screens only run on landscape videos on the watch page, not on Shorts, YouTube Kids or 360° video, so a vertical outro would have nowhere to show its elements. The tool lays out at 1920×1080 and exports 1280×720 free, 1920×1080 on any plan and 3840×2160 on Pro, all 16:9.
Where exactly do the end-screen elements go?+
Inside the placement area: clear of the left and right edges by 5%, clear of the top by 8% and clear of the bottom by 12%, where the progress bar and player controls sit. In the two-up layout the two cards are 558×314 with a 240-pixel subscribe circle; side by side gives two 660×371 cards; single gives one 980×551 card. YouTube allows up to four elements on a 16:9 video — videos or playlists as rectangles, one subscribe element as a circle, plus channel and link elements. Switch on Show YouTube safe zones and the guides draw all of it on your frame; they are preview only and never exported.
Can I match the outro to my intro?+
That is the point of the style list. Seven of the twelve Intro Maker styles are here with the same names, palettes and type: Minimal White, Solid Metal, Glitterdust, Neon Power, Cinematic Letterbox, Vlog Frame and Retro Wave. Use the same logo and the same style name in both tools and the opener and the close read as one design. The other five intro styles are effects-led — flames, RGB tearing — and were dropped here because an end screen carries two photographs, two titles and a channel block, and that information does not survive being set on fire.
Can I use my own thumbnails on the cards?+
Yes. The End-screen cards section on the left has two slots: drop in the thumbnails of the videos you are pointing at and each is cropped to fill its card, with a duration pill and a title underneath, so the preview reads like the finished screen. Leave them empty and a sample pair chosen for the style is used, or switch "Fill empty cards with sample thumbnails" off and the cards become plain frames. Turn the samples off before you export if you do not want our sample photos in your video — YouTube's own elements will cover the cards, but only after you place them.
Is there a watermark on free outros?+
Yes — a small LazyKiwi mark in the corner of the 720p export, and it cannot be switched off on the free plan. Paying removes it: a one-time credit pack exports without the mark, and any paid plan exports the same outro clean at 1080p, cleared for commercial use.
Can I add music to the outro?+
Yes. Eighteen in-house tracks come with the tool and each style suggests one for its mood; two are free and the rest come with any plan, or you can export silent. Uploading your own music is not available in this tool. Most outros are cut under the end of the video's own audio anyway, so silent is a sensible choice if your editor already has a bed running.
Can I use the outro on a monetised channel?+
On any paid plan, yes. Those exports are 1080p with no watermark and cleared for commercial use: a monetised channel, sponsored videos, ads and outros you make for clients. Free exports, and clean exports from a credit pack alone, are for personal use.
Use cases
Who the outro maker is for
A channel that already has an intro
You made the opener in the Intro Maker; take the same style name and colour for the close. Solid Metal · Gold opens the pair — same metal, same type, same channel mark at the other end of the video.
Gaming, tech and music channels
Neon tube around both cards, light beams turning behind, the channel ring lit. Open Neon Power, or send people to one video with Retro Wave on a single card.
Vloggers and lifestyle creators
Pastel paper, the two cards taped down like polaroids, a handwritten closing line. Open Vlog Frame in peach, mint or lavender.
Film, documentary and interview channels
Widescreen bars, teal-and-orange haze, hairline frames and a flare that crosses the closing line — an end-credit feel that still leaves the cards readable. Open Cinematic Letterbox.
Tutorials, courses and business channels
A paper-white board with one soft top light, graphite type and real shadows under the cards. Open Minimal White — the default style, free to export, and cleared for commercial use on any paid plan.
Editors making outros for clients
Load the client's logo, try all seven styles on their brand, then hand over the MP4 with the safe zones respected so their editor can place the elements. Client work is commercial use, so export it from a paid plan: clean 1080p, no watermark. Try Glitterdust.
More answers
More about end screens
Why does the outro not fade out at the end?+
Because YouTube cuts there. The frame holds still from about 5 seconds in — the cards, the channel block and the Subscribed button all landed — and stays until the last frame, so a viewer who reaches the end sees a complete screen rather than a fade to black with elements floating on it.
What happens if I have no logo?+
The first letter of your channel name becomes a badge drawn in the style's own material: near-black ink for Minimal White and Cinematic Letterbox, brushed metal for Solid Metal, chrome for Retro Wave, a neon tube for Neon Power, a glowing ring for Glitterdust and a rubber stamp for Vlog Frame. Add a logo later and all seven style cards pick it up. For a name in Chinese or Japanese it takes the first character.
Which layout should I choose?+
Two-up if you want two videos offered and a strong channel column — it is the arrangement viewers see most. Side by side if your closing line needs the top of the frame, since the channel row moves underneath the cards. Single when there is one video you really want watched next: one 980×551 card is about three times the area of a two-up card.
Can I make an outro for Shorts, TikTok or Reels?+
Not from this tool — it is 16:9 only, because end-screen elements do not run on Shorts. For a vertical sign-off, the Intro Maker exports 9:16 and 1:1 with the same styles, and the Lower Thirds Maker makes a subscribe bar you can lay over the end of a vertical cut.
Can I change the font?+
Not on its own. The typeface belongs to the style — a poster face for Retro Wave, an editorial serif for Glitterdust and Cinematic Letterbox, a handwritten script for Vlog Frame — so switching styles is how you change the type. The colourways change the palette without touching the type.
Can I link straight to a style or a layout?+
Yes. The tool reads both from the address: add &style= with one of minimal-white, solid-metal, glitterdust, neon-power, cinematic, vlog-frame or retro-wave, and &layout= with two-up, side-by-side or single — for example Vlog Frame, side by side or Cinematic Letterbox on one big card. Handy for a bookmark, or for sending a client straight to the look you agreed on.
Keep going
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OpenEnd the video the way you opened it.
Build the end screen with your logo, your two thumbnails and your Subscribe button — Minimal White, Solid Metal or Neon Power are one click away. 720p is free on the free plan; any paid plan exports clean 1080p for a monetised channel.
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