Apps · Creator tools · Web and Android
Nichevo: which niche, which format, where is there room on YouTube?
Nichevo answers the question creators should ask before making a video, with data: which niche is rising, which format is already crowded, and who my size has broken out? It scans channels by subscribers and age, surfaces outliers (many views from few subscribers), analyses a video link and builds a weekly content plan. It works on the web and on Android with the same account.
- Live
- Web + Android
- Free for now
- Bring your own keys
- Sign in with Google
- Open source (MIT)
Why Nichevo?
Measured, not guessed
The competition heatmap and rising niches are computed live from YouTube. Each screen says what a cell counts, and no fake sample is shown when data is missing.
Through a small channel's eyes
Discovery filters by subscriber range and channel age. Channels with a high views-to-subscribers ratio are flagged as outliers: the ones that worked without being big.
Your keys stay yours
Your YouTube and AI keys live only on your device. They are never sent to the server, which only stores the account.
Pick your provider
Choose one of 14 AI providers for the assistant and planner; Ollama and LM Studio on your network work without a key.
What it does
Dashboard
Featured topics in Türkiye, a channel score (0-100 from average views, subscribers and video count), a growth tip and a niche × format competition heatmap.
Competition heatmap
Shows how many videos were uploaded in the last 30 days for technology, gaming, education and lifestyle across short, long, live, podcast and vlog formats. Blue cells are uncrowded, magenta is heavy competition.
Rising niches
Compares the weekly upload volume of six tracked niches over the last four weeks, shows the change as a percentage and a chart; tap a niche to start a scan with that term.
Niche scan
Search term, channel age (30 days to 365 days or all), minimum and maximum subscribers, outlier threshold and result count. Each channel shows subscribers, total views, age, views-to-subscribers ratio and a sample video.
Video analysis
Paste a YouTube link (watch, youtu.be, live or embed): views, likes and engagement rate, a views forecast from a simple growth model, a keyword-based sentiment split of the comments, keyword performance and a scene-density chart.
Content planner
A weekly calendar, an idea generator and a 6-stage shooting plan from your niche and topic (Declare, Assess, Isolate, Process, Build, Reveal). With an AI provider set, the plan is written for your topic; without one a template plan is shown and says so. You can share the plan as a PDF.
AI assistant
Chat with quick questions such as "Can you suggest a title for this video?" or ask your own.
Account
Sign in with email and password or with Google; the same account in the browser and on the phone. You can delete your account from the app.
Screenshots
Dashboard: live competition heatmap 
Discovery: rising niches 
Planner: AI shooting plan 
Video analysis 
Forecast, comments and keywords 
AI assistant 
Sign in: email or Google
Access
Right now
- Every feature is free
- No paid plan (the app says "not active yet")
What you bring
- A YouTube Data API v3 key (on Google's free daily quota)
- Optional: an AI provider key (for the assistant and planner)
Privacy
Nichevo says plainly where things are kept.
- Your API keys stay only on your device (secure storage on Android, browser storage on the web). They are not sent to the server.
- Your device makes YouTube and AI requests directly to those services; they do not pass through the Nichevo server.
- The server stores only the account: email, name, channel name and a password hash (or a Google account ID). Your password is never stored in plain text.
- The account server runs on the developer's own computer, not a cloud provider, so it can be briefly unreachable during maintenance or a power cut.
- You can delete your account permanently from the profile screen of the app.
Frequently asked questions
How is a rising niche calculated?
For six tracked niches, each of the last four weeks gets the number of videos uploaded that week (YouTube search result count); the change between the first and last week is shown as a percentage. It is growth in upload volume, not necessarily growth in viewer demand.
What does a number in the competition heatmap mean?
It is the approximate number of videos uploaded in the last 30 days for that niche and format, coloured on a logarithmic scale. Short is under 4 minutes, Long over 20, Live means finished streams; podcast and vlog are searched by adding the word to the niche term.
Will my YouTube quota be enough?
Google gives 10,000 units a day for free. The live data on Dashboard and Discovery refreshes every 24 hours and uses about 4,400 units; each niche scan costs roughly 100 more. When the quota runs out the last computed data is shown.
Why is the interface only in Turkish?
The interface is Turkish only for now. The language preference in the profile is saved, but there is no translation yet.
Which AI providers are supported?
Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, NVIDIA NIM, Mistral, OpenAI, Kimi, xAI, EVREN and Alibaba Qwen, plus Ollama, LM Studio and any OpenAI-compatible address. On the web some providers may not work because of browser restrictions; Android has no such limit.
Is the source code open?
Yes, under the MIT licence on GitHub: github.com/fatihkunak/nichevo.