Word Counter

The Word Counter is a free, instant text-analysis tool that gives you live counts as you type or paste content into the box. Whether you're writing an essay with a word target, trimming a tweet to fit a character limit, drafting a meta description for SEO, or estimating how long a blog post will take to read, you'll see all the numbers update in real time without ever leaving the page. Beyond word counts, the tool reports characters with and without spaces, sentence and paragraph counts, and an estimated reading time based on an average pace of 225 words per minute. Everything runs entirely in your browser — your text is never uploaded, stored, or shared, which means it works just as well on confidential drafts as it does on public content. Common uses include writing within a strict word budget for academic essays, hitting platform-specific limits for social posts (X/Twitter, LinkedIn, meta descriptions), preparing translations where character count matters for layout, and quickly checking the readability of a draft before publishing.