Free Word & Character Counter - Use Online Without Installing

How to use this tool

1. Type or paste the text.
2. Compare counts with and without spaces, plus words and lines.
3. For byte limits, confirm whether the destination expects UTF-8 or a legacy two-byte estimate.

Real-world uses

• Check a personal statement against a character limit.
• Estimate bytes before submitting text to an older system.

What to check

• The two-byte option is an estimate, not validation of a real character encoding.
• Emoji and combined characters can be counted differently by other services.

Common problems and fixes

Another site reports a different count

Check whether that site counts spaces, line breaks, UTF-8 bytes, or its own character rule.

File and input privacy

Your text is counted locally in the browser. The original text is not included in analytics events or sent to the server.

Questions about this tool

Practical guides

• Why Character Counts and Byte Counts Differ →

  Separate whitespace rules, UTF-8 bytes, and a receiving site’s custom limits.

• Fix Garbled CSV Text and Lost Leading Zeros →

  Check UTF-8 imports and spreadsheet auto-formatting before publishing a CSV.