Character Counter

What does a Character Counter do?

A character counter tells you exactly how many characters are in your text — including spaces, punctuation, and special characters. It also shows characters without spaces, which is useful for platforms that measure visible content only.

How to use

• Paste or type your text into the input area.
• All counts update instantly as you type — no button required.
• Use Clear to reset the input.

What the counts mean

• Characters — total length of the text, including spaces, newlines, and all Unicode code points. Emoji count as one character each.
• Chars (no spaces) — total characters with all whitespace removed. Useful for platforms that ignore spaces in limits.
• Words — sequences of non-whitespace separated by whitespace. Matches the convention used by most word processors.
• Lines — number of newline-separated lines.
• Sentences — sequences ending in ., !, or ?.
• Paragraphs — blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines.

Examples

• “Hello world” → 11 characters, 10 without spaces, 2 words, 1 line.
• “Hello 😊” → 8 characters (emoji counts as 1), 7 without spaces.

Useful for

• Social media limits — Twitter/X has a 280-character limit; SMS messages are 160 characters.
• SEO meta descriptions — recommended between 120 and 160 characters.
• Form field validation — check text against a database or UI character limit before submitting.

FAQ

• Does it count emoji correctly? Yes — each emoji is counted as a single character using Unicode code-point counting.
• Is my text sent to a server? No. All counting is done locally in your browser using JavaScript.

Privacy

Your text is processed entirely in the browser. Nothing is transmitted to any server.