Character Counter — Free Online Tool

The Character Counter gives you a live character count with and without spaces, plus word, sentence, and line counts, as you type or paste. Character limits are enforced in far more places than word limits — X caps posts at 280, an SMS segment is 160 characters before it splits and gets billed twice, an Instagram bio allows 150, and a meta description is effectively cut off by Google somewhere around 155 to 160 characters.

Counting characters correctly is less obvious than it looks. Emoji and many non-Latin characters occupy more than one unit in some systems, so a post that looks like 275 characters can be rejected at 280 by a platform counting differently. Trailing spaces and line breaks also count against most limits even though they are invisible. Seeing both the with-spaces and without-spaces numbers side by side makes it obvious which limit you are actually up against.

Typical uses: trimming a meta description so Google does not truncate it mid-sentence, fitting a product title into a marketplace's field limit, keeping a text message to a single billed segment, and checking that an ad headline fits before the ad platform rejects it.

Counting runs entirely in your browser as you type — nothing is submitted, stored, or sent anywhere.

Our Character Counter is completely free to use with no signup required. For this tool, processing runs in your browser — your files and data stay on your device and are not uploaded to our servers.

Whether you are a developer, designer, student, or business owner, this tool is designed to save you time and make your workflow more efficient. Bookmark this page to access it whenever you need it — it will always be free.