Instantly count characters with and without spaces, ideal for tweets, ads, meta descriptions and forms with a character limit
Count the characters in your text instantly, with and without spaces. It's essential when you're writing for limited space: X (Twitter) posts, Instagram captions, Google Ads, SEO titles and meta descriptions, text messages or forms with a character maximum. You'll also see the number of words, sentences and paragraphs. Everything is calculated in your browser: your text is never sent to any server.
Get the exact count in a couple of steps:
Type or paste your text into the box.
Click the button to analyze it.
See the characters with and without spaces, plus words, sentences and paragraphs.
Adjust the text and count again until it fits the limit you need.
Counts all letters, numbers, punctuation marks, spaces and line breaks. This is the figure most limits use, such as those on X or Google Ads.
Excludes spaces, tabs and line breaks. This is the usual measure in translation and in some academic work.
Accented letters and characters like ñ count as one character. Some emojis count as 2 characters, as on many platforms, because of the way they're encoded.
Use it whenever a text has a length limit:
Social media: fit your posts to X's 280 characters or the 2,200 characters of an Instagram caption.
SEO: write titles of about 60 characters and meta descriptions of about 155 so Google doesn't cut them off.
Ads: meet the Google Ads limits for headlines (30) and descriptions (90).
Forms and applications: check that your answer, summary or bio doesn't exceed the maximum allowed.
Write the full message first and trim it afterward: it's easier to cut than to add.
Check whether the platform counts with or without spaces; it's almost always with spaces.
Remove filler words like "really," "very" or "basically" to save space.
If you paste text from somewhere else, clean it first with Clean Text to remove double spaces that add to the character count.
Yes, on most platforms spaces count. That's why we show both values: with spaces and without spaces.
A post on X (Twitter) allows up to 280 characters for standard accounts. Links always count as 23 characters.
Between 120 and 155 characters is recommended so Google displays it in full in search results.
No. The count is done entirely in your browser and your text is never sent to our servers.
Absolutely. All processing is done locally in your browser, so your text is never sent to any server. Your data remains completely private and secure.
There are no artificial limits imposed by our tool. The only limit is your browser's processing capacity, which can generally handle very large documents without problems.
No, all our text tools are completely free and require no registration, login, or provision of personal information.