Word Counter

What is Word Counter?

Word Counter is a free, private online tool that counts words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, and estimated reading time. Paste or type any text and see live statistics. All counting runs entirely in your browser so your content never leaves your device.

Key features

• Real-time word and character counts
• Characters with/without spaces
• Sentence and paragraph counts
• Reading time estimate
• 100% client-side – text never leaves your device
• No account, no limits, no upload

How to use it

1. Open the Word Counter tool.
2. Paste or type your text into the box.
3. Watch live counts for words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time.
4. Copy the stats if needed. Nothing is sent anywhere.

When to use it

Use Word Counter for essays, articles, social posts, meta descriptions, or any writing that has a word or character limit. Ideal when you need accurate counts without pasting sensitive drafts into cloud tools.

In this family

Text utilities — related tools in the same cluster.

• Count characters
• Change text case
• Find and replace
• Sort lines
• Remove duplicate lines
• Generate lorem ipsum
• Turn text into a slug
• Turn a slug into text
• Remove line breaks

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