Character Counter
A live tally of characters (with and without spaces), words and lines.
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What is a character counter?
Twitter caps posts at 280 characters; a single SMS segment is 160. This counter shows how close you are: characters with spaces, characters without, plus words, sentences, lines and paragraphs, all updating as you type. Emoji are counted as single characters even though they occupy several bytes, so the totals match what most platforms enforce.
How to use the Character Counter
- 1 Start typing or drop your text into the field.
- 2 Watch both character totals (with spaces and without) update live.
- 3 Check the word, sentence and line figures beneath them.
- 4 Copy the full report if you want a record of the numbers.
What you can use it for
- Keeping a tweet, bio or meta description under its limit.
- Checking SMS length before the message splits into segments.
- Measuring essay answers against a word or character brief.
- Trimming ad copy to fit a fixed field.
Frequently asked questions
Does the counter include spaces?
Both figures are shown side by side: one total including every space and line break, and one with all whitespace stripped. Twitter counts spaces; some form fields don’t, so having both saves guessing.
Why does my count differ from Word or Google Docs?
Word processors disagree on line breaks, trailing spaces and emoji. Here every Unicode code point counts once, so a flag emoji is one character even though it is stored as multiple bytes.
Is there a maximum length?
No hard cap. A whole manuscript counts in well under a second because the tally is computed on your machine rather than posted to a server.
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