Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in your browser. Live stats as you type — no upload, free online word counter.
Count words and characters privately
Track length limits for essays, meta descriptions, or social posts without sending drafts to a word-count website.
What you can do with it
- Hit a character limit
- Watch live counts while trimming a bio or ad copy to platform limits.
- Estimate reading time
- Use word count as a quick gauge for blog or documentation length before publishing.
How to count words
- Paste or type your text in the editor.
- View live word, character, and sentence counts.
- Edit until you meet your target length.
Drafts stay on your machine
Essays, press releases, and unpublished blog posts often exceed platform limits. Counting locally avoids uploading manuscripts to ad-supported word-count sites.
Characters with and without spaces
Social bios and meta descriptions usually count characters, not words. Watch both metrics while editing so titles fit SEO snippets and tweets stay under caps.
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