Word & Character Counter

Live counts for words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, and lines. Reading and speaking time update as you type. The panel includes a top-10 most-frequent words table and the most common characters in your text. No signup, no upload — your draft never leaves the browser.

What you can measure

A counter is rarely about the count itself. It is about hitting a target — a 280-character tweet, a 60-character meta description, a 1000-word essay, a 3-minute talk. Each of those is one quick measurement away from done. Type, watch the number, edit until it lands.

This counter measures every dimension that matters:

• Words — whitespace-delimited, punctuation-aware
• Characters — with and without spaces (the version platforms care about)
• Sentences — terminator-based with abbreviation handling
• Paragraphs — blank-line-separated
• Lines — useful for code or columnar text
• Reading time — at 240 wpm
• Speaking time — at 150 wpm

Common workflows

Composing a meta description. Aim for 150-160 characters. The character counter (with spaces) updates live; you stop at the first match.

Writing a tweet, BlueSky post, or Mastodon toot. Each platform has its own limit. Type, watch, edit. The character counter handles surrogate pairs correctly — emojis usually count as two.

Estimating speaking time for a presentation. Drop your speaker notes in. Speaking time appears below the word count. A 5-minute slot is roughly 750 words at conversational pace.

Auditing prose density. The top-10 words panel surfaces overuse — if “the” and “actually” dominate the first slot, you have an editing target.

Why the counter is in your browser

A word counter has no business uploading anything. The text you most often need to count is the text you have not yet decided to publish — drafts, outlines, sensitive notes. This tool runs entirely in your browser. No autosave, no telemetry, no API calls. Type, count, leave.

Last updated: 2025-01-15