Hashtag Tracker & Analyzer
Analyze and optimize any set of hashtags before you post
About this generator
The Hashtag Tracker & Analyzer audits any set of hashtags before you publish. Paste your tags — or your whole caption — and it checks them against each platform's real rules: Instagram's 30-tag cap, YouTube's 15-tag limit, X's 280-character budget, and TikTok's caption limit.
It flags duplicates, format errors, and hashtags that have been publicly reported as banned or restricted, then returns a cleaned, copy-ready set. Every check is computed from the text you paste — the tool does not estimate live post volume or engagement, because no free tool can measure those without paid platform API access.
Pro tips
- Instagram allows up to 30 hashtags, but its own creator guidance recommends just 3–5 highly relevant tags.
- YouTube counts a maximum of 15 hashtags — add more than 15 and YouTube ignores every hashtag on the video.
- On X, hashtags share the 280-character limit, so 1–2 specific tags usually outperform a long list.
- Mix tag lengths: a few broad tags plus more specific niche tags is easier to surface in than 30 ultra-broad ones.
- Banned-hashtag lists change constantly and Instagram never publishes an official one — always verify a flagged tag in the app before posting.
Frequently Asked Questions
No — and that is deliberate. No free tool can measure real-time post counts or engagement for a hashtag without paid access to each platform's API, so anything that claims to is guessing. This analyzer only reports facts it can verify from the hashtags you paste: platform limits, duplicates, format errors, banned-tag flags, and a length-based reach-tier mix.
We check your tags against a list of hashtags that social-media tools such as Later, Hootsuite, and Plann have publicly reported as banned or restricted on Instagram. Instagram does not publish an official list and it changes often, so we flag these as 'verify before use' rather than claiming a live ban.
The score runs five checks on your set: you are within the platform's hard tag limit, there are no duplicate tags, every tag is a valid format, none are on the reported-banned list, and your tags span a healthy mix of lengths. Each check you pass adds one point, for a score out of five.
It groups your cleaned tags by character length — broad (8 characters or fewer), mid (9–15), and niche (16+) — as a structural proxy for how competitive a tag tends to be. It is a heuristic based on length, not a live search-volume measurement, and the tool labels it that way.
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