Character Counter
Count characters with or without spaces.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter or upload leaves your device.
What the character counter does
This tool counts every character in your text, with and without spaces, and breaks the total down into letters, digits, spaces, lines, words and bytes. It also measures your text against the length limits of places where every character matters.
Use it when writing a social media post, a text message, a page title or meta description for search results, a product listing, or anything for a form field with a maximum length. The counts update with every key press, so you can edit until the text fits.
How to use the character counter
- Type or paste your text.
- Read the counts: characters, characters without spaces, letters, digits, spaces, lines, words and UTF-8 bytes.
- Check the limits panel to see how much room is left, or how far over you are, for a post, a meta description or an SMS.
Understanding the limits
The panel checks your character count against seven limits: an X (Twitter) post at 280, a meta description at 160, an SEO page title at 60, an SMS at 160, an Instagram caption at 2,200, a LinkedIn post at 3,000 and a YouTube title at 100. Each line shows the characters left, is highlighted when less than a tenth remains, and shows how many characters over once you pass the limit.
The title and description figures are guides rather than hard rules, since search engines shorten them by display width. The SERP preview shows how a title and description might look in results. The spaces count includes tabs but not line breaks, which are counted as lines instead.
Questions
How are emoji counted?
As one character each, the way you see them, even when an emoji is built from several code points (such as a skin-tone or flag emoji). The UTF-8 byte count shows the real storage size.
Why does a platform show a different number?
Each platform has its own rules. X counts every link as 23 characters, and SMS switches to 70-character segments when a message contains emoji or some accented letters.
What are UTF-8 bytes?
The space your text takes when saved or sent as UTF-8, the encoding most websites use. Plain English letters take one byte each, accented letters usually two, and most emoji four or more. Some databases and systems set limits in bytes rather than characters.
Is my text saved?
No. It stays in this page only and is gone when you leave or press Clear.