Character Counter
Paste anything to get exact character counts (with and without spaces), Unicode-aware grapheme counts, words, lines and UTF-8 bytes, plus progress bars for each platform’s limits.
Runs 100% in your browser · nothing you enter is uploaded
How to use it
- Paste or type your text.
- Read the counts and platform gauges live.
- Trim until every gauge you care about is green.
Questions
Why do characters and graphemes differ?
An emoji like 👍🏽 is several code points but one visible symbol (grapheme).
Does X count emoji as two?
Yes, most emoji count as 2 toward X’s 280 limit; we show an X-weighted count.
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