Character Counter

About Character Counter

Confileo's Character Counter tool counts characters as you type and shows live whether the text fits each platform limit. Everything runs in your browser, free and without signup, and nothing is uploaded.

Almost nobody counts characters out of curiosity. They count because something has a limit: a post that has to fit in 280, a bio capped at 150, a meta description that gets truncated in the search result, an SMS that becomes two messages and costs twice as much at 161. So this page does not stop at the number — it shows the count live against the limits people actually write to, with the room remaining on each one, which is the question behind the count.

What counts as one character is less obvious than it looks, and getting it wrong is why two counters can disagree about the same text. A program's default measure is the UTF-16 code unit, under which an emoji counts as two and a family emoji with skin tones can count as eleven. This page counts grapheme clusters instead — what a person would point at and call a character — using the browser's own Intl.Segmenter. For plain English the two agree exactly; for anything with emoji, accents or non-Latin script, the grapheme count is the one that matches what you see.

Alongside the character count you get characters excluding spaces, words, sentences, paragraphs, lines, and reading and speaking time. Characters-without-spaces is the measure some academic and translation work is priced on. Sentence counting treats a trailing fragment with no full stop as a sentence, because a writer would — a heading is a sentence even without a terminator.

The limits are grouped by where they apply. Social covers X, Instagram bio and caption, TikTok bio and caption, LinkedIn headline, About and post, and YouTube title and description. Search covers the page title Google will display at around 60 characters and the meta description at around 160 — both are really pixel-width limits, so treat those numbers as the safe line rather than a hard cut. The rest covers a single SMS segment at 160 — or 70 once an emoji, a curly quote or a non-Latin letter forces Unicode, which the card detects — and an email subject line, which most clients truncate around 60 on mobile.

Everything updates as you type, and nothing you paste leaves your browser. That matters more here than on most tools, because the text people count is often something they have not published yet — a draft post, a client's copy, an unsent message. There is no upload, no account and no server involved in the counting.

If your text is long enough that words are the unit you care about, the word counter is the same tool with the emphasis the other way round.

Quick facts

Price

3 credits per use — runs in your browser (free every month: 50 credits as a guest, 300 with a free account)

Signup

Not required

Max file size

Up to 100 MB per file

Your files

Deleted automatically after processing

Works on

Any browser — desktop, tablet, mobile

Watermark

None on your output

How to use Character Counter

1. 1Paste or type your text into the box.
2. 2Read the character count, and the words, sentences and reading time alongside it.
3. 3Check the limit cards to see how much room is left in a post, bio, meta description or SMS.

Why use Confileo

• ✓Try it free — 50 credits a month with no account and 300 a month with a free one; no watermarks and no credit card.
• ✓No signup or account required — start using it instantly.
• ✓Your files are processed securely and deleted automatically for full privacy.
• ✓Works in any browser on desktop, tablet and mobile — nothing to install.
• ✓Fast processing built to handle real, everyday document workloads.

Character Counter — Frequently asked questions

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