Character Counter
Count characters in your text with a detailed breakdown: letters, digits, spaces, punctuation, and special characters. Perfect for social media limits and data validation.
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Punctuation
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Special
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Lines
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Without Spaces
Character counting serves a different purpose than word counting. While word count tracks volume of content, character count enforces hard technical limits. Twitter/X enforces a 280-character limit per post. SMS messages are limited to 160 characters in a single segment (longer texts are split and billed separately). Meta descriptions beyond 160 characters are truncated in Google search results. Bio fields on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok have character caps that can silently cut off your text if you exceed them. Knowing your exact character count prevents unpleasant surprises after publishing.
This tool goes beyond a simple total count by breaking down your text into meaningful categories: letters (a–z, A–Z), digits (0–9), spaces, punctuation marks, and special characters. This breakdown is useful for password validation rules (minimum uppercase/digit requirements), data field constraints in databases, and API request size limits where payload character counts matter. All counting happens instantly as you type, running entirely in your browser with no data sent to any server.
How to Use Character Counter
- Type or paste your text.
- View real-time character breakdown.
- Check counts for letters, digits, spaces, and special characters.