YouTube End Screen and Outro Templates
A YouTube end screen template is a closing graphic sized to leave room for YouTube's own clickable elements, holding a subscribe prompt and a next-video frame for the last five to twenty seconds of a video.
An end screen is the last thing a viewer sees and the only moment they are actively deciding what to watch next. It carries the subscribe ask and leaves room for the next video.
YouTube's own end screen elements — the video thumbnails and the subscribe badge a viewer can click — can be placed over the final five to twenty seconds of a video. An outro graphic has to leave space for them rather than compete with them, which means keeping the middle and right of the frame clear where those cards land.
That constraint is the whole design brief. These templates put the channel mark and the ask where the clickable elements are not, so the graphic and the platform's own overlay read as one screen instead of two things fighting.
The hold is long by design — an end screen that leaves before the clickable cards do is an end screen nobody used.
Every template here is free to open, free to change and free to watch back, with no account needed to browse. Exporting the finished file costs $5 once for that project, or a plan covers every export.
All 15 Outro templates
- Creator CTA ProFull creator CTA with avatar, subscribe press and cursor.
- YouTube Cobalt NextCobalt end screen with stationary video and subscribe slots for YouTube Studio.
- YouTube End Screen 202615-second YouTube end screen with clear zones for native video and subscribe elements.
- Full YouTube OutroOutro title + CTA controls
- Split End CardSign-off on the left, the end-screen slots kept clear on the right.
- Centred Sign-offThanks for watching, set large, above a channel line.
- Corner StackEverything in one corner, the rest of the frame left alone.
- Outro RibbonA band along the bottom with the channel and a subscribe.
- Next Up CardPoints at the next video with a slot the card sits in.
- Glass End PanelFrosted panel that reads over whatever the last shot was.
- Subscribe OutroOne ask, made large, for the last frame of the video.
- Social Sign-offHandles stacked where a viewer can read them and pause.
- Minimal OutroA name, a rule and a line of thanks. Nothing else.
- Avatar FarewellPortrait, channel and a warm goodbye, held for ten seconds.
- End Screen Outro 4KOutro title, two video slots and a subscribe.
Using outro graphics
- How long should an outro be?
- Long enough to cover YouTube's end screen window, which is the final five to twenty seconds. Twenty is generous for most videos; ten to fifteen is the usual choice.
- Where should I leave space for YouTube's end screen cards?
- Keep the middle and right of the frame clear. That is where the clickable video and subscribe elements are placed, and a graphic underneath them makes both harder to read.
- Should the outro repeat the subscribe ask?
- Yes. It is the one moment where a viewer who watched the whole thing is deciding what to do next, and it costs nothing to ask someone who has already given you their time.
- What do I export an outro as?
- A transparent WebM or MOV, at the length your end screen runs. The alpha matters more here than anywhere: an outro on a black rectangle hides the last frame of your video, where an outro with alpha lets the shot keep playing underneath. It drops onto a track in Premiere Pro, Resolve, Final Cut or CapCut with nothing installed and no After Effects. Set the colours to your channel's before you export — an outro is the frame people screenshot.
Rather build your own?
YouTube Outro MakerAn outro is the only graphic designed around something that is not in it. YouTube places its own end screen elements over the last seconds of your video, and the outro's job is to frame them rather than fight them.Next
- Make it yoursChange the words, the colours and the timing without breaking the animation that was built for the shape.
- Export it with transparencyWhich format your editor actually reads, and why a black rectangle behind your graphic means the wrong one was chosen.
- Leave room for the end screenYouTube draws its own cards over your last twenty seconds whether you planned for them or not.
- YouTube Outro MakerBuild your own outro from nothing, with the space for YouTube's end screen elements planned before anything moves.
- What exporting costsOpening this template, changing it and watching it back are free. Getting the finished file out is $5 once for this project, or a plan if you make them often.