Character Counter Text
Count characters with and without spaces, plus limits for common platforms.
Character Counter is a free online tool that count characters with and without spaces, plus limits for common platforms. It runs entirely in your web browser using plain JavaScript, so files are processed on your own device and never uploaded to a server. There is no sign-up, no file size limit imposed by the site, no watermark and no paid tier.
- Price
- Free — no account, no quota, no watermark
- Category
- Text
- Where it runs
- In your browser, on your device
- Files uploaded
- None
- Technology
- plain JavaScript
- Settings
- None — it just works
- Works offline
- Yes, after the first visit
About Character Counter
Character Counter is one of 57 text tools on DuckyTools, and like all of them it runs entirely inside this page. Count characters with and without spaces, plus limits for common platforms.
How to use it
- Paste or type your text. Every figure recalculates on each keystroke.
- Use the sample button to see what the numbers look like on real prose.
Under the hood
| Runs on | plain JavaScript — runs the whole thing |
Questions
Do emoji count as one character?
Often not. Many emoji are made of several code units, and skin-tone or family variants can count as four or more. This counter reports JavaScript string length, which is what most platforms measure against — so what you see here is what their limit will apply.
Why does my SMS split into several messages?
Plain GSM messages hold 160 characters. Adding any non-GSM character — an emoji, a curly quote, an accented letter — switches the whole message to Unicode encoding, which drops the limit to 70.