Free Character Counter

A character counter tells you exactly how many characters are in your text — with and without spaces. This precision matters when you’re writing for platforms that enforce strict character limits: Twitter’s 280-character cap, Google’s 160-character meta descriptions, or SMS messages that break at 160 characters.

Character counting is fundamentally different from word counting. A 50-word paragraph might be 300 characters or 400 characters depending on word length and punctuation. When a platform cuts your text at a fixed character position, word count is irrelevant — you need to know the exact character total.

Our character counter gives you both counts (with and without spaces) plus supplementary metrics like word count, sentence count, and line count. Everything runs in your browser with zero data transmission, so it’s safe for any content.

Character limits are everywhere — social media, SEO, development, and messaging all enforce them differently.

Word count tells you how much you’ve written. Character count tells you whether it fits. These are different questions, and using the wrong metric leads to truncated tweets, cut-off meta descriptions, and broken SMS messages.

A word counter is the right tool when your constraint is about content depth — essay word limits, blog post length targets, article assignments. A character counter is the right tool when your constraint is about physical space — a text field that accepts 160 characters, a title tag that truncates at 60, or an ad headline capped at 30.

Our character counter is purpose-built for space-constrained writing. The dual with/without-spaces display, real-time updates, and supplementary metrics give you everything needed to write precisely to any character limit.