YELF.

YouTube Editor Lead Finder

Spend less time searching for clients. Spend more time editing for them.

YELF is a Windows desktop app for freelance video editors. Discover promising YouTube channels, qualify the opportunities, and keep your outreach organized.

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Pre-launch · YELF 0.9.0 release candidate

The work before the work

Finding editing clients shouldn't feel like an endless search.

Manually checking channel after channel is slow, repetitive, and hard to turn into a reliable pipeline. YELF gives that research a focused home—so you can spend more of your time doing the work you love.

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See YELF in action

From discovering channels to managing outreach, YELF keeps your lead-finding workflow in one place.

Qualify leads at a glance

Know which channels deserve your attention.

YELF surfaces prospect scores, editing opportunity, client value, contactability, channel viability, and other useful qualification signals—without manually investigating every channel.

Discover better opportunities

Start with a search that fits your client profile.

Use multi-query discovery and practical subscriber, view, and upload filters to find channels that fit the kind of client you want to edit for.

Track the leads worth pursuing

Keep every promising prospect in view.

Save prospects, track statuses, use automatic checking and monitoring, add comments, and keep outreach candidates organized.

Built for the hunt

The right information, in one place.

Channel discovery

Explore relevant channels and turn searches into a practical starting list.

Useful metrics

Review the channel signals that help you decide what deserves attention.

Filters that focus

Narrow results with Quick Filters, and unlock Advanced Filters & Presets in Pro.

Available contacts

Surface contact information where it is available, without the tab-switching.

Lead workspace

Save prospects and manage them with CRM-style tracking.

Export your work

Take your saved leads to CSV or Google Sheets when you need to.

AI on your terms

Choose no AI, Local AI with Ollama, or Custom Cloud AI in Pro.

Monitoring in Pro

Keep an eye on leads with automatic monitoring.

AI, your choice

Useful analysis without locking you into one path.

No AI

Use YELF's core discovery and lead-management workflow without AI mode.

Local AI / Ollama

Available in Free. Run analysis through your own local Ollama setup.

Custom Cloud AI

Available in Pro. Use your own provider API key and provider billing.

Free or Pro

Choose how you want to use YELF

YELF Free

Start finding and organizing better editing leads.

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  • Manual channel analysis
  • Single-query discovery
  • Up to 25 candidate channels per search
  • Quick Filters
  • Up to 25 saved leads
  • Basic lead management
  • CSV / Google Sheets export
  • No AI mode
  • Local AI / Ollama

YELF Pro

YELF Pro

Scale your lead discovery and qualification workflow.

$39.99 One-time purchase

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Everything in Free, plus:

  • Up to 50 candidate channels per single search
  • Multi-query discovery
  • Advanced Filters & Presets
  • Automatic monitoring
  • Unlimited saved leads
  • Custom Cloud AI

Own YELF Pro permanently. Includes all 1.x updates.

YELF Pro

$39.99 one-time

One-time purchase. Own this version permanently. Includes all 1.x updates. Future major versions may be optional paid upgrades.

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Made for your desktop

A clearer view of your next client.

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Privacy-minded by design

Your tools and keys stay under your control.

Your YouTube API key and any Custom Cloud AI keys are stored securely on your Windows device. Local AI can work through your own Ollama setup without cloud AI. YELF does not bundle a developer-paid AI service.

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