Length Counter
Count characters, words and lines in your text, live and entirely in your browser.
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About this tool
A length counter answers a question that comes up constantly in writing and development work: does this text fit? Meta descriptions get truncated past a certain character count, tweets and social bios have hard limits, form fields enforce a maximum length, and commit messages are conventionally kept under a certain width for the first line. Rather than counting by hand or guessing, this tool gives you an exact, live count as you type or paste.
The counter tracks four numbers simultaneously: total characters, characters excluding spaces, word count, and line count. Total characters is what most character-limited fields actually enforce (a tweet counts spaces, for instance), while the no-spaces figure is useful when you're estimating something like SMS segments or a field that only counts visible glyphs. Word count follows the everyday definition of a word — a whitespace-separated token — and line count simply reflects how many lines your text spans, handy for scripts, log excerpts, or CSV-like data.
Everything updates live as you type, with no button to click and no delay, and — like every tool in this toolbox — the counting happens entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste is uploaded, logged, or stored anywhere, which matters if you're checking the length of something you'd rather not send to a third-party server, like an internal document or a draft containing personal information. The tool also keeps working with no internet connection once the page has loaded.
In practice this counter gets used for a wide range of length limits: SEO meta descriptions (commonly truncated around 155–160 characters in search results), title tags, tweet or post length, bio and profile fields, SMS character limits, database column constraints, and git commit subject lines. Because it counts live, it's also a fast way to sanity-check truncation logic elsewhere in your codebase — paste in a boundary case and see exactly where it lands.
Once you've got the numbers you need, use the “Send to” button under any of the four stat tiles to hand that count straight to another tool in this toolbox — for example, feeding a character count into the random string generator's length field to produce a value of exactly that size.
Frequently asked questions
Does the character count include spaces? expand_more
The main "Characters" tile counts everything, including spaces — which is how most character-limited fields (like tweets) actually count. A separate "Characters (no spaces)" tile is shown alongside it if you need that figure instead.
How is a "word" counted? expand_more
As a whitespace-separated token — the everyday definition most word processors use. It's a reasonable approximation for prose, though it will count things like hyphenated compounds or standalone punctuation slightly differently than a full linguistic word count would.
Does this tool send my text anywhere? expand_more
No. Counting happens entirely in your browser, live, with no server involved — safe to use even for text you wouldn't want to paste into a random website's backend.
What's a common use case for this? expand_more
Checking SEO meta descriptions and title tags against search engines' display limits, staying under social media character counts, and validating text against form or database field length limits.
Does it work offline? expand_more
Yes, once the page has loaded. All counting happens locally, so no internet connection is needed afterward.