Character Counter
Count characters with and without spaces, and check your text against common platform limits — instantly, entirely inside your browser.
What is a Character Counter?
A character counter tells you exactly how many characters a piece of text contains — with spaces, without spaces, and broken down into letters, digits, spaces, and special characters. It updates as you type or paste, which matters whenever a platform enforces a hard limit: a tweet that gets cut off, an SMS that splits into two messages, or a meta description that gets truncated in search results all come down to going over a character count that isn't always obvious while writing.
It's built for anyone writing to a limit: social media managers fitting a caption into a platform's cap, marketers writing meta descriptions and title tags for SEO, developers validating form field lengths, and anyone sending a text message who wants to stay under the single-segment SMS limit.
GuideHow to use it
How the counts are calculated
The total count includes every character typed, including spaces and line breaks. The "no spaces" figure strips out whitespace entirely. Letters, digits, spaces, and special characters are each counted by testing every character against the relevant category — a special character is anything that isn't a letter, digit, or whitespace, such as punctuation, symbols, or emoji. Platform limits are checked by comparing the total character count against each platform's published cap, so the "left" or "over" figure updates the moment typing crosses the threshold.
Why it helpsFeatures & benefits
Why this runs entirely in your browser
Whatever gets typed or pasted here — a draft caption, an unpublished description, a private message — stays in the tab. All the counting runs in JavaScript locally, so nothing is ever uploaded, logged, or sent to a server, and it keeps working offline once the page has loaded.
A note on platform limits
The limits shown here reflect commonly published caps at the time of writing, but platforms do change them — Twitter/X's limit, for instance, has moved over the years, and some platforms count certain characters (like emoji or non-Latin script) as more than one character toward the limit. When a limit is critical, it's worth double-checking against the platform's current documentation before publishing.
Frequently asked questions
A few things people usually want to know before trusting the numbers.
The total count includes spaces. A separate "no spaces" figure is shown for cases where only non-whitespace characters matter.
Anything that isn't a letter, digit, or whitespace — punctuation, symbols, and emoji all count as special characters here.
They reflect commonly published limits, but platforms update their rules over time, so it's worth confirming against the platform's current documentation for anything critical.
Yes. Use the Upload .txt button to load a plain text file directly into the counter.
No. All counting happens locally in your browser. Nothing typed or uploaded here is sent to a server, stored, or shared.