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Character & word counterwrite or paste text, measure it instantly
Words, characters and sentences are counted in your text. Reading time, speaking time and pages are estimated from a stated model. Everything runs in your browser — your text never leaves your device.
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- Characters
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Autosaved locally · text stays in your browser
Where your text fits
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- X postFits0 / 280280 left
- SMSFits0 / 160160 left
- Meta titleFits0 / 60 rec.60 left
- Meta descriptionFits0 / 160 rec.160 left
- YouTube titleFits0 / 100100 left
- LinkedIn postFits0 / 3,0003,000 left
Check your text against common limits
Reference limits from the publishing registry, measured against your text right now. Set your own limit to replace them.
Reading & speaking time
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- Estimated pages
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Model · 5.7 characters per word · 250 words per page · 225 wpm reading · 130 wpm speaking
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- No spaces
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Derived from the measured word count
Ranges are modelled, not measured: they show the same assumption applied with a ±10% allowance for style and formatting.
Document shape
Your sentence map appears here when there is text to measure.
Count & analyze
One workspace, every text metric
Each surface measures the same document with the same engine, and shows the rule it applied.
- Character CounterGrapheme-accurate characters, with and without spaces.Open character counter →
- Word CounterLength distribution, vocabulary variety and repetition in what you wrote.Open word counter →
- Sentence CounterEvery sentence as a measured row, with length bands and rhythm.Open sentence counter →
- Letter CounterOnly Unicode letters — digits, spaces and punctuation excluded.Open letter counter →
Structure, tokens and estimates
- Paragraph CounterDocument mass: how your text is actually blocked out.
- Prompt WorkspaceReal tokenizer boundaries, context fit and per-model cost estimates.
- Estimation WorkbenchWords to pages, characters, reading and speaking time — with the assumption shown.
- Rule LabType anything and watch the production engine classify it.
Understand the numbers
What the metrics mean
A character counter measures every keystroke — letters, numbers, spaces, punctuation. A word counter tracks how many words your text contains. Both matter when something external sets the boundary: a 280-character post on X (formerly Twitter), a 60-character page title, a 500-word scholarship essay, or a prompt you need to keep inside a token budget.
Beyond the raw counts, SnapLetterCount shows reading time, speaking time, page estimates, sentence and paragraph structure, keyword usage, a readability score, and estimated AI tokens. These are editorial signals — they tell you how your text is built and where it will and will not fit, not how a search engine will rank it.
Use the sentence counter for rhythm and structure, the letter counter for alphabetic constraints, and the paragraph counter for organisation. For quick reference, see how many pages 500 words fills, how long 1,000 words takes to read, or how many words are in 500 characters.
Students
Meet essay word count requirements for any academic level — from 500-word papers to doctoral theses.
Writers & bloggers
Hit a target length, check reading time, and see how sentence length affects readability.
SEO & content teams
Check title and meta description length, review keyword usage, and understand the structure of your content.
Social media managers
Stay inside the character limits for X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and every other platform you publish to.
Platform limits reference
The same numbers power the limit presets in the counter above, so they never drift apart.
| Platform | Limit | Type |
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| X (formerly Twitter) post | 280 | Hard limit |
| SMS message | 160 | Hard limit160 characters per GSM-7 segment. Emoji or accented letters switch the message to UCS-2, which drops the segment to 70 characters, and longer texts are split into concatenated segments of 153 (or 67) characters. |
| Instagram caption | 2,200 | Hard limit |
| LinkedIn post | 3,000 | Hard limit |
| Facebook post | 63,206 | Hard limit |
| TikTok caption | 2,200 | Hard limit |
| YouTube video title | 100 | Hard limit |
| YouTube description | 5,000 | Hard limit |
| Discord message | 2,000 | Hard limit |
| Reddit post title | 300 | Hard limit |
| Page title tag | 60 | RecommendedSearch results truncate by pixel width, not character count. Around 60 characters is a practical guide, not a rule. |
| Meta description | 160 | RecommendedSnippets are rewritten and truncated by search engines. Treat this as an editorial target. |
| Google Ads headline | 30 | Hard limit |
| Email subject line | 50 | RecommendedMail clients cut subject lines at different widths. 50 characters keeps the whole line visible on most mobile inboxes. |
Hard limits are enforced by the platform. Recommended lengths are editorial guidance — you can go past them, but part of the text may be cut off in the interface. Check any of them against your text with the character counter.
Privacy and how we count
Everything runs in your browser. Your text is never uploaded to a server, never logged, and never shared — which makes the workspace safe for confidential documents, academic work, and unpublished drafts. Your current draft is saved in your browser's own local storage so it survives a page change; it stays on your device and is deleted the moment you press Clear.
Characters count every visible character you type — one per grapheme, so é, å, an emoji with a skin tone, a family emoji or a flag each count as one — including spaces and punctuation; a separate figure excludes spaces. Words are whitespace-separated tokens. Sentences are split on terminal punctuation, with common abbreviations handled as exceptions. Reading time uses 225 words per minute and speaking time 130 words per minute, both adjustable assumptions rather than exact measurements. Page counts follow standard manuscript formatting. AI token figures on this page are estimates; the prompt workspace runs the real tokenizers for model-specific counts.
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