Character Counter
Count characters (with and without spaces), words and lines in real time.
How to use Character Counter
- Enter your text in the field above by typing or pasting.
- Watch the live counts — total characters, characters without spaces, words and lines update instantly.
- Trim or expand until you're within your target limit (e.g. 280 for a tweet, 160 for a meta description).
- Copy the final text and use it anywhere.
What is Character Counter?
A character counter counts the individual characters in a string of text — letters, numbers, spaces, punctuation and symbols. Many platforms measure limits in characters rather than words, so a character counter is essential for writing that has to fit a fixed space.
Common character limits include 280 for X/Twitter posts, 160 for a single SMS, ~155–160 for an SEO meta description, 60 for a title tag, and 150 for an Instagram bio. Counting characters as you write keeps your content within these limits and prevents truncation.
About the Character Counter
The Character Counter tells you exactly how many characters are in your text as you type — including a separate count without spaces — so you never blow past a limit. It's built for the places where every character counts: tweets, SMS messages, SEO meta titles and descriptions, Instagram and Twitter bios, and form fields with strict maximums.
Instead of pasting into a document and squinting at the status bar, you get an instant, always-visible count plus words and lines. Trim a meta description to land under 160 characters, fit a bio into 150, or keep an ad headline within Google's 30-character limit — all without guesswork.
It's free, requires no account, and processes everything in your browser so your text stays private and there are no length limits.