📝 Text Tools

🔤 Character Counter

Platforms from X (Twitter) to SMS gateways to search engine meta descriptions enforce strict character limits, and going even one character over can get your text truncated or rejected. This counter tracks the exact character count of your text live as you type, showing counts both with and without spaces, along with byte size for developers working with encoding limits.

It's a simple, focused tool — paste your text and immediately see whether you're within your target limit, no sign-up or upload required.

Your text

With spaces

Without spaces

Bytes (UTF-8)

How to use the Character Counter

Paste or type your text into the box.
View the live character count, with and without spaces.
Check the byte size if you need to account for multi-byte UTF-8 characters (like emoji or non-Latin scripts).

How characters are counted

The 'with spaces' count is simply the total length of the text string, including every space, punctuation mark and line break. The 'without spaces' count strips whitespace characters before counting. Byte size is calculated using UTF-8 encoding, where common Latin characters take 1 byte but emoji and many non-Latin scripts can take 2–4 bytes each — which matters for platforms with byte-based rather than character-based limits.

Frequently asked questions

Why does byte size differ from character count?

Character count treats every visible character as one unit regardless of language or symbol. Byte size reflects how many bytes that character actually takes up when encoded in UTF-8 — plain English letters take 1 byte, but emoji, Chinese, Hindi and many other scripts can take 2 to 4 bytes per character, so byte size can be much higher than character count for non-Latin text.

Does this match Twitter/X's character limit exactly?

This tool counts raw characters, which is close to how most platforms count, but some platforms apply special weighting to links, mentions or certain Unicode characters (X, for instance, treats some characters as weighted units). Always double check against the platform's own counter for a hard limit.

Are spaces and line breaks counted?

Yes, in the 'with spaces' count every space and line break counts as one character. The 'without spaces' count excludes spaces and line breaks so you can see the count of visible, non-whitespace characters only.