Character Count

Type, paste or open a text, and the number of characters with and without spaces updates with every keystroke, together with the words, sentences, paragraphs and unique words, the words per sentence, the longest sentence and the reading and speaking time. Characters are counted the way you see them: an emoji, a flag or a letter with an accent counts as one character, even when it is made of several Unicode code points. Words are counted correctly in every language, also in Chinese, Japanese and Thai, which are written without spaces. Select a part of the text to count only that part.

Many places limit the length of a text: a post on X may have 280 characters, a post on Threads 500, an Instagram caption 2200, an SMS 160 characters (70 with emoji or many non-English letters), and search results show about 60 characters of a page title. Type a number under “Character limit” or click one of the presets, and a bar shows how much of the limit you have used, with the number of characters left or over the limit. Files such as .txt, .md, .csv or .html open with “Open file” and are read in your browser, never uploaded.