Character Counter
Live character, word, and line count with limits.
Characters
0
No spaces
0
Words
0
Lines
1
Bytes
0
About
Type or paste text and see live counts for characters (with and without spaces), words, lines, and bytes. Set a limit (like Twitter's 280) and the counter goes red when you exceed it. Good for tweets, SMS, meta descriptions.
How to use
- Type or paste text.
- Optionally set a character limit.
- Watch the counts update live.
FAQ
Why does the byte count differ from character count?+
ASCII characters are one byte each. Most accented Latin characters are two bytes in UTF-8. Most emoji are four bytes. The byte count matters for SMS pricing and database limits.