Character Counter
Counts characters with and without spaces, plus words, lines, paragraphs, and UTF-8 bytes. Useful whenever a field has a length limit.
With spaces
0
Without spaces
0
Words
0
Lines
0
Paragraphs
0
Bytes
0
How to use
Type or paste into the box and the numbers update as you go. It is the quickest way to check text against a limit — a 280-character post, a 160-character meta description, a form field that cuts off at 500.
Characters are counted both with and without spaces, because guidelines disagree about which one they mean. Check which basis your limit uses and read the matching number.
The byte count is there too. Plain ASCII letters take one byte each in UTF-8, but an accented letter takes two and most emoji take four, so a string can blow past a byte-based database column long before it looks long.
What you type is never sent to a server. A draft you have not published yet stays inside your browser.