Character Counter and Text Statistics Tool
Count characters without whitespace, lines, words, bytes, and more as you type.
Your text and selected files are processed only in your browser and are not sent to or stored on a server.
The input text is not saved in browser storage.
Text input
Enter text directly or load a text file from your device.
Drop a TXT, Markdown, or other text file here
Character target
Counting works even when no target is set.
Count results
The selection count includes only the currently selected text.
- Length
- 0 Including whitespace and line breaks
- Without whitespace
- 0 Excluding whitespace and line breaks
- Selected range
- 0 Currently selected characters
- Lines
- 0 Including a trailing empty line
- Words
- 0
- Paragraphs
- 0
- Sentences
- 0
- UTF-8 bytes
- 0 B
- Unicode code points
- 0
- UTF-16 code units
- 0
- 400-character manuscript pages
- 0 pages
- Estimated reading time
- 0 min
Whitespace and line breaks
- Half-width spaces
- 0
- Full-width spaces
- 0
- Tab
- 0
- Line breaks
- 0
Character types
Top 10 characters
Enter text to see the results.
Whitespace preview
Half-width spaces appear as “·”, full-width spaces as “□”, tabs as “→”, and line breaks as “↵”.
About this tool
Check visible character counts and detailed text statistics when writing, submitting copy, filling forms, or reviewing manuscripts.
Features
- Grapheme-aware characters, characters without whitespace, selection counts, lines, words, paragraphs, and sentences
- UTF-8 bytes, character types, frequency, manuscript-page estimates, reading time, and character targets
How to use
- Enter text or load a local text file from your device.
- Review characters, characters without whitespace, lines, words, bytes, and other statistics.
- Optionally set a character target, then copy or save the results.
Limitations
- Japanese word and sentence counts are estimates produced by the browser's language segmentation.
- The amount of very large text that can be processed depends on device memory and browser performance.
Privacy: Selected files and conversion or analysis results are processed in your browser and are neither sent to nor stored on the Develop Tools server.