Word & Character Counter
Your text never leaves your device — counting happens entirely in your browser.
What this tool does
Counts words, characters, sentences, lines, paragraphs and bytes — each with one exact definition instead of a guess. Words follow the Unicode segmentation standard, so “don't” is one word and Japanese or Chinese text counts correctly without spaces. Characters are what you actually see: a family emoji is one character here, while most counters report it as eleven.
Why the numbers differ from other counters
Naive counters count UTF-16 code units and split on spaces. This one reports the user-perceived characters, the Unicode code points and the UTF-8 bytes separately — all three are true and useful for different limits (a tweet, a database column, an SMS). And as with every tool here, nothing is uploaded: the page is static and keeps working with the network disconnected, verified by our automated tests on every release.