Character Counter
Character Counter tallies the exact number of characters in your text as you type, including a separate count that excludes spaces. It also breaks the total down into letters, digits, spaces, words, sentences, lines and UTF-8 byte size so you can see precisely what your text is made of.
Live progress bars show how your text measures against common limits — SEO titles, meta descriptions, SMS and X/Twitter posts — turning red when you go over. It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.
Platform limits
How to use Character Counter
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Type or paste your text
Enter text into the box. The counts update on every keystroke.
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Read the breakdown
See total characters, characters without spaces, letters, digits, spaces and words side by side.
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Trim to your limit
Edit your text while watching the count to land exactly within a character limit.
Why character limits matter
Many platforms count characters, not words. A meta description that exceeds roughly 155–160 characters gets truncated in search results, a single SMS segment is 160 characters, and posts on X are capped at 280. Form fields, database columns and product titles often have hard limits too.
Checking your character count before you publish prevents cut-off headlines, split text messages and rejected submissions.
Characters with vs. without spaces
Some limits count every character including spaces; others count only the visible glyphs. This tool shows both numbers at once so you never have to guess which definition a platform uses.
Letters and digits are counted using Unicode-aware matching, so accented letters and non-Latin scripts are included correctly.
Frequently asked questions
- Does it count spaces as characters?
- Yes. The main count includes spaces, and a separate "no spaces" figure excludes all whitespace so you can use whichever a platform requires.
- Is my text uploaded anywhere?
- No. All counting happens locally in your browser, so your text never leaves your device.
- Does it handle emoji and accented characters?
- Letters are matched with Unicode rules so accents and many scripts count correctly. Note that some emoji are made of multiple code points and may count as more than one character.
- What is the UTF-8 byte count for?
- Bytes are what actually travel over the network or fit in a database column. Non-ASCII characters take more than one byte in UTF-8, so the byte figure can exceed the character count — useful when a limit is specified in bytes rather than characters.
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