The Character Counter counts every character in your text as you type or paste, with and without spaces, and breaks the total down into letters, digits, spaces and punctuation. Emoji, flags and accented letters are counted the way you see them, as one character each, rather than as the two or more code units they take up inside a computer, which is why some simple counters report a higher number. Set your own character limit, for example the 500 or 1,000 characters an application form or bio field allows, and a bar shows how many characters are left or how far over you are. Built in bars show the limits of an X post (280), a Google meta title (about 60) and meta description (about 160), an SMS (160), a Google Ads headline (30), a YouTube title (100), an Instagram caption (2,200) and a LinkedIn post (3,000). A letter frequency panel shows how often each letter appears, with upper and lower case counted together, which is useful for word games, puzzles, cipher exercises and checking repeated letters. Highlight part of the text to count just that selection. Words, sentences and lines are counted too, and the text stays saved in your own browser so it survives a refresh. Nothing is uploaded. For a word count with keyword density use Word Counter, to turn a word count into pages use Words to Pages Converter, and to change letter case use Case Converter.
Character limits are everywhere: X allows 280 characters per post, a single SMS holds 160 characters of plain text or 70 when it contains emoji or non-Latin letters, Google shows about 60 characters of a page title and 155 to 160 of a description, Google Ads headlines allow 30 and descriptions 90, YouTube titles 100, Instagram captions 2,200 and LinkedIn posts 3,000. Many online forms, scholarship applications and job portals set their own limit for a bio, a summary or an answer, often 250, 500, 1,000 or 4,000 characters including spaces. When a limit says "characters" it almost always includes spaces; when it means otherwise it says "characters without spaces" or "letters". Counting is not always the same across platforms. Emoji can count as two characters on X, a link on X always counts as 23 characters however long it is, and a few older systems count the bytes of the text, where an accented letter takes two bytes and an emoji four. If a form rejects text that this counter says fits, the form is probably counting one of those ways, so leave a small margin. For text that is too long, Whitespace Remover strips double spaces and empty lines, which are easy to miss and all count toward the limit.