Character Counter
Live character, word and line counts for any text.
Get live counts of characters with and without spaces, plus words and lines, as you type. Handy for posts, bios and forms with strict limits.
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About Character Counter
Writing a social media bio is an exercise in subtraction: every platform hands you a fixed box and dares you to fit personality inside it. This counter exists for exactly those moments. Type or paste and the tallies update live, showing characters both with and without spaces, plus words and lines. Because some limits count spaces and others don't, seeing both numbers side by side saves you from trimming to the wrong target.
Beyond bios and captions, character limits hide in more places than people expect: form fields that silently cut off long answers, search-result titles you want to keep fully displayable, usernames, file names, and any field with a database column behind it. A quick paste here tells you instantly whether your text fits or by how much it overflows, so you edit with precision instead of guessing.
It counts as you type, which matters when the text you are counting is a draft cover letter or a private message. If a platform still rejects text that this tool says fits, the usual culprit is the platform's own counting rule (for example, counting a link as a fixed number of characters regardless of its real length); trim with that platform's rules in mind.
How to use Character Counter
- Type or paste your text into the box.
- Read the live character, word and line counts.
- Use Clear to reset the box.
Why use this tool?
- Live counts as you type
- Counts with and without spaces
- Free with no signup
Tips for best results
- Watch the without-spaces count when a limit is ambiguous, it's the safer target to trim toward.
- Draft long posts elsewhere, paste here to check, then trim. Iterating against a live count beats guessing.
- Check form fields before submitting anything important; silent truncation is how addresses and emails get mangled.
- Count URLs separately on platforms that shorten links, since the pasted length isn't what counts there.
- Use the line count alongside characters when formatting addresses or verse that must fit a fixed layout.