Character Counter
What is a Character Counter?
A character counter is a simple tool that calculates the length of your text. This page shows total characters, characters without spaces, word count, and line count as you type or paste content. It’s ideal for social media posts, SEO titles and meta descriptions, essays, and form inputs with length limits.
How to Use
- Paste or type your text in the box above
- Toggle “Exclude spaces” to switch between counts
- View characters, words, and lines in real time
Common Length Limits
- Meta title: 50–60 characters
- Meta description: ~155–160 characters
- Twitter/X post: 280 characters
- Instagram caption: up to 2,200 characters
This Character Counter instantly calculates characters (with and without spaces), words, and lines. It's helpful for social posts, essays, SEO meta descriptions, and other length-limited content.
Characters with spaces includes every character, including spaces and line breaks. Characters without spaces removes whitespace characters.
Most emojis count as one visible character, but some can be composed of multiple code points. This tool counts by JavaScript’s character length, which matches most platforms.
Yes. The Lines metric increases for each new line in your text.
No. All counting happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or saved.