Character Counter
Count characters, characters without spaces, words, lines, and UTF-8 byte size online for free. Accurate on emoji and Unicode text — no signup, nothing uploaded.
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How to use Character Counter
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Paste or type your text into the box.
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Toggle "Include spaces" to switch what the main character count reflects.
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Word count, line count, and UTF-8 byte size are shown alongside it, updating as you type.
Common uses
- Staying under a strict character limit — a tweet, an SMS, a form field
- Checking a meta description or title tag length before publishing
- Confirming the byte size of text going into a size-constrained field or database column
Supported formats and limitations
Accepts text, up to one file at a time.
- Character counting uses grapheme clusters (what you'd perceive as one character), not raw UTF-16 code units — a complex emoji or a combining accent counts as one character, matching what you'd actually see and count by eye.
- Byte size reflects UTF-8 encoding, the web standard — a different encoding would produce a different byte count for the same text.
Frequently asked questions
No. Counting happens entirely in your browser as you type.
It switches the main character count between including and excluding whitespace — both underlying numbers are always available.
One — even a multi-part emoji (like a flag or a family with a skin-tone modifier) counts as a single character, matching what you'd see, not the number of underlying Unicode code points.
The text's size in UTF-8 encoding — useful when a system's limit is defined in bytes rather than characters, since non-English text often takes more than one byte per character.
Yes — counting is Unicode-aware throughout, not limited to plain ASCII.