Character Counter
Character Counter
Paste or type your text and see live counts of characters, words, sentences, paragraphs and more. Nothing is uploaded.
A character counter tells you exactly how long a piece of text is, measured in several different ways at once. Writers need it for essays with strict limits, students need it for assignments, marketers need it for ad copy and social posts, and developers need it when a form field or database column allows only a fixed number of characters. Counting by hand is slow and error-prone, especially when the limit is about characters without spaces rather than the total you see on screen.
This tool updates every figure live as you type or paste. You get the total character count, the count with all spaces and line breaks removed, the number of words, sentences and paragraphs, the number of lines, and the longest single word in your text together with its length. Seeing all of these together matters because different platforms count differently: one service may include spaces in its limit while another ignores them, and some count a paragraph break as one character while others count two.
Everything runs locally in your browser. Your text is never sent to a server, stored, or shared, so it is safe to paste private drafts, personal statements, and unpublished work. When you close the page, the text is gone.
How to use
- Click in the text box and type, or paste text you copied from a document or web page.
- Watch the counters update instantly below the box as the text changes.
- Check the figure that matches your limit — for example, characters without spaces for forms that ignore spacing.
- Edit your text directly in the box until it fits the limit you need.
- Copy the finished text back into your document or platform.
Frequently asked questions
Do spaces and line breaks count as characters?
In the total character count, yes — every space, tab, and line break is one character. That is how most systems measure length. The separate "no spaces" figure strips all whitespace out, which is the count some school assignments and older systems ask for.
How are words and sentences counted?
Words are groups of characters separated by whitespace. Sentences are counted by splitting the text at full stops, question marks, and exclamation marks, so abbreviations like "e.g." can make the sentence count slightly higher than the true grammatical number.
What counts as a paragraph?
A paragraph is a block of text separated from the next block by a blank line. A single line break starts a new line, not a new paragraph, which matches how most editors and publishing platforms treat text.
Is my text private?
Yes. The counting happens entirely in your browser using code on this page. Nothing you type or paste is uploaded anywhere, and nothing is kept after you leave.
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