Text Counter

Plenty of writing has a hard limit attached. A post that must fit 280 characters. A meta description that gets cut at about 160. An essay with a word count. A form field that silently truncates anything longer than it wants.

Text Counter answers all of those at once. Type or paste, and it reports characters, characters without spaces, words, sentences and lines as you go — not after you press a button.

You can also set a maximum. There are presets for 280, 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000 characters, or enter your own, and the field caps at the limit you set. That turns the count from something you keep glancing at into something you cannot accidentally exceed.

Characters without spaces is there because some systems count that way and the difference is large enough to matter on a tight limit.

Everything is counted on your phone — the text is not uploaded to our servers, which is worth knowing when what you are measuring is a draft nobody else should see yet. It is free, with no account.

If the text is sitting in a file rather than your clipboard, open it in the Text Viewer and send it straight here.