Character Counter
Count characters with and without spaces, words, and lines. Useful for Twitter, social media limits, and code. Free and instant.
Quick answer
Character Counter is a free online tool that helps you count characters, words, and lines. Count characters with and without spaces, words, and lines. Useful for Twitter, social media limits, and code. Free and instant.
What is a Character Counter?
Use this character counter to measure text length for posts, captions, titles, snippets, forms, and other writing with length limits.
How do you use Character Counter?
- Paste or type your text into the input area.
- Check the live totals for characters, words, and lines.
- Edit the text until the counts fit your target length or platform limit.
What does Character Counter help with?
Checking a social caption
If a caption needs to stay under a character limit, paste it into the counter and trim the text while watching the character total update.
How does Character Counter work?
How text length is counted
The tool counts characters in the full text, can distinguish counts with and without spaces, and also estimates words and lines based on whitespace and line breaks.
Character Counter FAQ
Does the counter include spaces?
Yes. The tool can show character totals with spaces and without spaces.
How are lines counted?
Lines are based on line breaks in the text, so each new line in the input adds to the line count.
Is my text stored anywhere?
No. The text is processed in your browser and is not stored by this page.