Character Counter

How to Count Your Text

1. Type or paste your text. Write directly in the box, or paste text in from anywhere.
2. Watch the counts update. Characters, words, and sentences appear along the top, and they change as you type — there's no button to press.
3. Check the secondary counts. The smaller row shows characters without spaces, paragraphs, and lines.
4. Edit until you're on target. Trim or expand your text right in the box until the number you care about lands where you want it.

What This Tool Does

This free counter tells you exactly how long a piece of text is, updating live as you write. It's useful whenever there's a limit to hit or a target to reach — a social post with a character cap, a meta description that needs to fit in search results, an essay with a word count, or a form field that rejects anything too long.

Your text is processed entirely inside your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, so drafts and private notes stay on your own device.

Characters, With or Without Spaces?

Both numbers are shown because different places count differently. Social platforms and most form fields count every character, spaces included. Translation and copywriting rates, and some academic requirements, are often quoted without spaces — which can be 15–20% lower for ordinary English prose. When someone gives you a limit, it's worth checking which one they mean.

Word count has its own quirks: hyphenated terms and numbers may or may not count as one word depending on the tool doing the counting, so treat any word count as close rather than exact when you're near a hard limit.

Frequently Asked Questions