Character Counter
Count characters with and without spaces in your text.
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Total Characters
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Letters
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Digits
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Spaces
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Special Characters
A character counter is a vital tool for anyone who works with text that has strict length requirements. From social media posts to SMS messages, meta descriptions to database fields, character limits are everywhere in the digital world.
Our character counter provides real-time statistics as you type or paste text, showing you the total number of characters with spaces, without spaces, word count, sentence count, and paragraph count. This comprehensive analysis helps you understand your text at a glance.
Unlike simple counters, our tool handles Unicode characters correctly, including emojis, accented characters, and special symbols. This is particularly important for social media content where emoji usage is common and each emoji may count differently depending on the platform.
Character counting is critical for social media optimization, SEO meta descriptions (155-160 chars), SMS marketing (160 chars), and form field validation. Our tool works entirely in your browser for maximum privacy.
- Enter or paste your text in the input area
- View character count in real-time
- Check characters with and without spaces
- Google meta descriptions should be 155-160 characters for optimal display in search results.
- SMS messages are limited to 160 characters — exceeding this splits your message into multiple parts.
- Twitter/X allows 280 characters — use our counter to maximize your message impact.
- Title tags for SEO should be 50-60 characters to avoid truncation in search results.
- Pay attention to character count without spaces for more accurate text density analysis.