Character Count

Counts characters, characters without spaces, words, lines, and UTF-8 bytes in your text in real time. Handy for essays, social posts, SEO meta tags, or anything with a character-limit. All calculations run in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.

1. Type or paste the text you want to measure into the box above.
2. Characters, characters without spaces, words, lines, and bytes update live as you type.
3. Copy whichever number you need. Your text never leaves the browser.

• Are spaces included in the character count?

  The default "Characters" tile includes spaces, line breaks and tabs. The "Characters (no spaces)" tile excludes all whitespace. Most word-count limits (Twitter, meta descriptions, etc.) include spaces, so the default is usually what you want.

• How are words counted?

  Anything separated by whitespace counts as one word. Punctuation attached to a word doesn't add to the count.

• What does "Bytes" mean?

  It's the size of your text encoded as UTF-8. ASCII characters take 1 byte each; most CJK characters take 3 bytes. Useful when you need to fit text into a fixed-size field.

• Is my text uploaded anywhere?

  No. All counting happens locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, stored, or logged.