Word & Character Counter
Count words, characters, sentences and reading time of any text.
About Word & Character Counter
Get instant statistics for any text: total characters (with and without spaces), word count, line count, sentence count, paragraph count, and estimated reading time at 200 words per minute. Updates live as you type. Useful for SEO content, academic writing, social media character limits, and code documentation.
All processing happens entirely in your browser using modern web APIs. Nothing is uploaded to our servers — your data stays local and private. Free to use forever.
Common use cases
- Checking blog post or article length for SEO content guidelines
- Staying within Twitter (280), LinkedIn, or SMS character limits
- Verifying academic paper word count requirements
- Estimating reading time for newsletter or documentation pages
- Counting characters in meta descriptions (aim for 150–160)
How it works
Word count splits on whitespace sequences (\s+) and filters empty tokens. Character count is simply text.length (with spaces) and text.replace(/\s/g, '').length (without). Sentences are counted by matches of sentence-ending punctuation followed by whitespace or end-of-string. Reading time assumes 200 words per minute (average adult reading speed).