# How many YouTube channels am I subscribed to? — SubSense Last reviewed: October 3, 2026. HTML version: https://www.subsenseapp.com/answers/how-many-channels-am-i-subscribed-to/ **YouTube will show you the list, but its help pages never mention a number.** The page that explains subscriptions tells you where your channels live — in the app, “Tap the Subscriptions tab,” then “You can go to a list of your channels by tapping All” — and stops there (*YouTube Help: Subscribe to YouTube channels*, read 3 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/4489286?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid). We read its Android, computer and iPhone versions today, and none of them describes a count of the channels you follow. So the honest answer is that you work the number out yourself. There are four ways, from quickest to most technical. ## 1. Count the list where YouTube keeps it On a computer, the help's route is “In the Guide, click **Subscriptions**” (*YouTube Help: Subscribe to YouTube channels (computer)*, read 3 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/4489286?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop); on a phone it is the **All** button inside the Subscriptions tab, quoted above. Our page on [seeing every channel you follow](https://www.subsenseapp.com/answers/see-all-youtube-subscriptions/) covers the full-list address on the web and what that list leaves out. Scrolling and counting is perfectly reasonable for a few dozen names. *Our view, not YouTube's:* past a hundred or so, counting by eye gets error-prone, and one of the routes below will be faster. ## 2. Look at “Your Data in YouTube” Google describes this page as one that “includes a summary of your content and activity data,” reached by signing in, selecting your profile picture and then **Your Data in YouTube**; it adds that the page is “currently only available on desktop and mobile web” (*YouTube Help: Your Data in YouTube*, read 3 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9315727?hl=en). The help names a “Subscriptions privacy setting” among the things you can manage there, but it does not say whether the summary includes a subscription count. Worth a look before anything heavier; just don't go in expecting a number the help itself never promises. ## 3. Export your data with Google Takeout Takeout is Google's tool for downloading what your account holds, and its help names “YouTube videos” among the examples of what you can export (*Google Account Help: How to download your Google data*, read 3 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en). The steps: sign in, open the Google Takeout page, untick the products you don't want, choose **Next step**, then pick a delivery method and **Create export**. What that help page does not do is say which YouTube files the archive holds — it names no subscriptions file and no format for one. It does point to the place that will tell you: inside the download “will be a file named archive_browser.html that will have additional information about the file formats.” If your archive contains a list of subscriptions, counting its entries gives you the number. Three things from the same page to plan around: - Timing: it “could take from a few minutes to a few days. Most people get the link to their archive the same day.” - The link does not last: “Your archive expires in about 7 days,” and each archive can be downloaded 5 times. - Google recommends opening Takeout exports “from a desktop computer, not a mobile device.” ## 4. Ask the YouTube Data API directly This is the developer's route, and the only one where Google's documentation describes a total. The `subscriptions.list` method, called with `mine=true`, will “retrieve a feed of the authenticated user's subscriptions”, and its response carries `pageInfo.totalResults`, documented as “The total number of results in the result set” (*YouTube Data API: Subscriptions: list*, read 3 October 2026 — https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/subscriptions/list). The same page offers a “Try it!” panel: “Use the APIs Explorer to call this API and see the API request and response.” Because `mine` “can only be used in a properly authorized request,” you will be asked to sign in and grant access to your account; only do that if you are comfortable reading what you are approving. ## Why people go looking for the number Usually it is one of two worries. The first is a ceiling: YouTube's help says “In general, you can subscribe to a maximum of 2,000 channels,” with a limit that grows with your channel, and an error reading “Too many subscriptions” when you hit it (*YouTube Help: Subscribe to YouTube channels*, read 3 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/4489286?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid). [The full picture on limits](https://www.subsenseapp.com/answers/youtube-subscription-limit/), including the softer number YouTube recommends, has its own page. The second is a feed that has stopped being readable — and there the count matters less than [which channels are doing the crowding](https://www.subsenseapp.com/answers/why-one-channel-floods-my-youtube-feed/). ## Where SubSense fits [SubSense](https://www.subsenseapp.com/) answers a slightly bigger question than “how many”. Sign in with Google and SubSense organises the channels you follow into smart categories, and its Dashboard carries a **Subs** figure alongside them — in the no-sign-in demo it reads 15, one for each of the demo's 15 sample channels. Channels the categoriser cannot place go to **Mystery Box** — a real category with its own screen, not a silent failure. The app also shows which channels have gone quiet or flood your feed, which is usually what the number was standing in for. Its limits, plainly: it runs on iPhone and Android only, it needs a Google sign-in for your real list (the demo uses sample data), and SubSense is an independent tool, not affiliated with YouTube. Related: [How to see all the channels you're subscribed to](https://www.subsenseapp.com/answers/see-all-youtube-subscriptions/) · [Is there a limit on YouTube subscriptions?](https://www.subsenseapp.com/answers/youtube-subscription-limit/) · [How to clean up your subscriptions](https://www.subsenseapp.com/answers/clean-up-youtube-subscriptions/)