Our Character Counter provides real-time counting of characters, words, sentences, and paragraphs in your text. Essential for writers meeting word limits, social media posts, and content creation with detailed statistics and character limits tracking.
The tool displays both counts - characters with spaces and characters without spaces for complete flexibility.
Very accurate. It uses standard word counting algorithms that handle punctuation, line breaks, and special characters correctly.
Yes, you can set custom character limits and the tool will show how close you are to exceeding them.
Yes, the character counter works with all languages including those with special characters and Unicode text.
Twitter (280), Facebook post (63,206), Instagram caption (2,200), LinkedIn post (3,000), and many more.
Currently, you need to copy and paste text from files, but we support all standard text formats.
The estimate uses standard reading speeds (200-250 words per minute) and provides a good baseline estimate.
HTML tags are counted as characters, but you can use our HTML tag remover first if needed.
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