Word and Character Counter
Count words, characters, sentences and reading time as you type — and see at a glance whether the text fits a meta description, a post or a caption.
Runs entirely in this browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, stored or seen by us.
Three steps, no account.
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Paste or type
The counts update on every keystroke. There is nothing to submit.
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Watch the limits
Each platform bar fills as you write and turns amber, then red, as you approach and pass its cut-off.
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Fix what is over
Trim until the bar you care about goes green. Reading and speaking times update with it.
Most counters give you a number and stop. The number is rarely the question. What you actually want to know is whether this paragraph will survive being pasted somewhere with a limit — a title tag that truncates at roughly 60 characters, a meta description at 155, a post that cuts off mid-sentence.
So this one counts as you type and shows the limits filling up beside the text. Nothing is sent anywhere; it runs entirely in this browser, which is why there is no button to press and no account to make.
Word and Character Counter, answered.
Yes, in the main character count. The second figure — "characters without spaces" — excludes them. Which one matters depends on where the text is going: Google counts pixels rather than characters for titles, X counts every character including spaces, and most CMS fields count everything.
At 238 words per minute, the average adult silent reading speed for non-technical prose. Speaking time uses 150 words per minute, which is a comfortable presenting pace. Both are rounded up, because a part-minute still costs you a minute.
Because Google measures the rendered width in pixels, not characters, and capital letters and wide letters like M and W eat more of it. Sixty is a safe rule of thumb rather than a hard limit — a title in caps can truncate in the low fifties.
No. The counting happens in your browser and the text never leaves the page. You can disconnect from the internet and it will keep working.
This is one job. The workspace does the rest.
The free tools stay free and stay ungated. Recast is where they stop being separate tabs and start handing work to each other — a link becomes a card, an article and a week of posts without you moving anything between them.