Character Count Tool

What is Character Count Tool?

Paste or type text and see its character count instantly, alongside words, sentences, lines, and estimated reading time. It's the same counting engine behind Word Count Tool, with the character count front and center for anywhere a character limit matters: a tweet, a meta description, a form field. Counting happens live as you type, entirely in your browser, and nothing you paste is sent anywhere. That makes it a quick way to check a headline against a strict character cap, trim a meta description to fit Google's display limit, or verify a form field's max-length before it gets rejected server-side.

How to Use the Character Count Tool

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   Paste or Type Your Text: Enter the text you want to measure.

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   Read the Counts Instantly: Character counts (with and without spaces), plus words, sentences, and reading time, update automatically as you type.

How It Works

Every keystroke re-runs the count, so there's no "Analyze" button to click. The tool reports both a raw character count (every character, including spaces, tabs, and line breaks) and a characters-without-spaces count, since limits you're checking against (a tweet, a meta description, a database column's max length) don't all define "character" the same way. Counting is Unicode-aware, so a character means one visible grapheme where possible, not a raw byte. An accented letter or emoji counts as one character rather than several.

Example

Typing "Hello, world!" shows 13 characters with spaces, 12 without (the space between the words is the only one removed).

Adding a line break, "Hello,\nworld!", still counts 13 total characters, since the count includes the newline itself.

Common Use Cases

Trimming a page title or meta description to fit a search engine's display limit, checking a tweet or social post against its character cap, or verifying a form field's input will fit inside a fixed-length database column before it gets rejected server-side.