Depop title checker (your first line)

Three numbers, and whose they are

Two of these are Depop's and one is ours. Every checker in this category prints numbers without saying which kind they are, and on Depop that distinction is the whole story.

Title fields on a listing

0

Photos, a description and dropdowns — there is no title step in either the app flow or the web one.

Hashtag slots

5

Depop's number, and a budget separate from the opening line. It's why hashtags don't belong in the first line.

Target for the first line

65

Ours, not Depop's: about one phone-width line. Depop publishes no length for a description or its opening.

Why the first line decides whether you're found

Depop's own ranking page says a shopper's search terms are matched against the listing's description, its brand, its category and its colour. With no title field, the opening line is both the start of that description and the first thing a human meets on the listing — it has to work for the algorithm and for the thumb at the same time.

There is no published cut-off to write to: Depop states no description length, no first-line length, and no point at which text gets clipped. So Sellura sets a target instead — about 65 characters, roughly one phone-width line — and front-loads the searchable words inside it, rather than leaving the phrase a buyer types at the end of a paragraph.

The order that works: brand, then item type, then the descriptors buyers actually filter and search by — era, fit, colour, size. “Cute jeans! No lowballers” spends the opening on words nobody searches. “Vintage Levi's 501 jeans 90s straight leg dark wash W30” matches half a dozen real queries inside the same 65 characters.

• ~65 characters is Sellura's target — about one phone-width line — and the checker counts against it.
• Front-load: brand + item + era/fit/colour/size, most searched first.
• Keep hashtags out of the first line — they have their own 5-slot budget anywhere in the description.
• Skip filler (“stunning”, “must have”, emoji walls) — it displaces searchable words.
• The first 40 characters are what a phone shows before the line wraps, so the decisive words belong inside them.

Depop SEO, explained end to end → · Generate your 5 Depop hashtags →

No title field: the rule no other marketplace here shares

This is not a quirk of wording. On Etsy you write into a title box capped at 140 characters, with 2026 guidance to stay under fifteen words. On eBay you write into a title box capped at 80, hard. On Amazon Handmade the cap moved to 75 in July 2026 and a second headline field appeared next to it. On Walmart the product name runs to 150 characters but the guidance asks for 50 to 75, brand first. On Shopify the product title itself is uncapped and the field that ranks is the SEO page title, 70 characters with 60 recommended.

On Depop there is no box. That changes what a checker can even mean: there is no cap to fail, no truncation point to avoid, and no field for the platform to treat as more important than the rest. What is left is a line of text competing for a shopper's attention in a scrolling feed — which is why this page measures a line, not a title, and why its advice is about ordering rather than about filling a budget.

It also changes what happens when you cross-post. A 78-character eBay title dropped into Depop is not rejected, because nothing rejects it; it just buries the searched words at the point where a phone stops showing the line.

The multi-marketplace title checker → · Rewriting a listing for another marketplace →

The 65 is ours — and here's why we print it anyway

A sweep of Depop's own help pages — listing an item, describing an item, listing on web, improving search ranking — found no character count for a description, for a first line, or for where text is clipped. That was first checked on 2 September 2026 and re-checked on 4 and 24 September. It is an absence of a published number, which is not the same thing as a statement that no limit exists: Depop's terms mention modifying listing content to fit its character limit without ever naming one.

So the honest phrasing is “Depop publishes no length”, never “Depop has no limit”. The difference matters because the alternative is how a wrong number spreads: several crosslisting tools state about 1,000 characters as a Depop rule, they agree with each other, and none of them cites Depop. Sellura used one of those figures as a listing budget and then wrote it up as a Depop rule too — corrected on 4 September 2026.

Sixty-five is published here for a plain reason: a checker with no number is a checker with no opinion. It is roughly what a phone shows on one line, which is the moment a shopper decides whether to keep scrolling. Write past it if the line earns it — the checker will tell you where the target ended, not refuse the sentence.

What the checker reads, line by line

It runs entirely in your browser — nothing you paste is sent anywhere, which is also why there is no account and no limit on how often you run it. What it looks at, in the order it reports:

• Length against the 65-character target, and the first 40 characters shown back to you as the phone lead.
• Repeated words — the same word twice in one line buys no extra matches and costs the characters.
• Comma-and-dash segmentation: a line chopped into three fragments (“Amazing y2k top, fits S/M, message me”) reads as an afterthought and spends the opening on none of them.
• The Depop-specific reminders the other five don't get: that this line is the name, and that hashtags have their own budget elsewhere.
• Word count, as information rather than a verdict — Depop is a keyword-first platform, so brevity here isn't the virtue it is on Etsy.

How Sellura's 0–100 score is calculated →

The dropdowns are not a substitute for words

A Depop listing carries structured fields — category, brand, condition, size, colour — and Depop's ranking page names brand, category and colour among the things a search is matched against. Fill every one of them; they power the filters a shopper narrows with, and leaving them empty removes the listing from those results entirely.

But they do not do the job of the line. Shoppers type brand names and sizes into the search box as well as picking them from a filter, and the text match still reads your description. Strong listings carry the decisive facts in both places, which costs nothing: the brand appears in the dropdown and in the first six words.

One more field worth the effort while you're there: Depop's listing flow takes four photos, with eight rolling out. The first one is the thumbnail the whole feed judges, and no line of text rescues a dark photo of a crumpled garment.

Marketplace-ready product photos →

What the free check doesn't do

This page checks one line. It doesn't write it, and it doesn't see anything about how the listing performed — Sellura has no access to your sales, your views or your position in Depop search, so it never reports them.

• Free here: the line measured against the target, repeats, segmentation, and the phone lead.
• In the generator: the first line written for you inside the target, plus the 5 hashtags, the details to name, and a description in Depop's one-field format — all budgeted against each other.
• Plus a 0–100 score on the result, four listing languages, and the same set for every other marketplace Sellura supports.
• The 0–100 score is deterministic: the same line always scores the same number, so a change you make is a change you can see.

Write the whole Depop listing → · What Depop actually takes per sale →

Weak line vs. strong line, both run through the checker above

Two real first lines, pasted into the tool at the top of this page. The bar under each is the 65-character target; the tick mark sits at 40 characters, which is roughly where a phone stops showing the line.

Neither line is rejected by Depop — nothing here is a cap. The difference is entirely in what a shopper reads first, and in how many of the words are ones somebody types.

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