Character Counter
Count characters with and without spaces, in real time.
Type or paste text below. We count characters with spaces, without spaces, letters, digits and UTF-8 bytes - instantly and locally.
- Characters
- 0
- Without spaces
- 0
- Graphemes (emoji-safe)
- 0
- UTF-8 bytes
- 0
- Letters
- 0
- Digits
- 0
How to use it
Paste the text you want to measure
Drop your tweet, meta tag, SMS draft, or product description into the field. Counting starts immediately.
Pick the relevant metric
Use 'with spaces' for most public-facing limits, 'without spaces' for word-density checks, and 'UTF-8 bytes' for storage or network constraints.
Edit to fit
Trim the text until the relevant counter drops below your platform's limit. The tool runs locally - nothing is uploaded.
What is it?
A character counter tells you exactly how many characters a piece of text contains - with and without spaces, by letter, by digit, and in raw UTF-8 bytes. Unlike a word counter, the unit is granular enough for hard-capped fields: Twitter's 280-character limit, an SMS that mustn't split, a meta description Google may truncate at ~155 characters, or a database column with a fixed VARCHAR width.
When to use it
Whenever a system enforces a character ceiling. SEO titles (~60), meta descriptions (~155), tweets (280), LinkedIn headlines (220), Instagram captions (2,200), product descriptions, ad copy, SMS messages (160 GSM-7 / 70 UCS-2), and any backend with a string column constrained by length. It's also useful for diffing two strings by visible length.
Common mistakes
Counting bytes when the system counts characters (or vice versa) - emojis and CJK characters take up multiple UTF-8 bytes but render as one grapheme. Some platforms strip trailing whitespace before counting; others don't. And don't forget hidden characters like non-breaking spaces or zero-width joiners - they count too.
FAQ
- What's the difference between characters with and without spaces?
- Characters with spaces counts every character including spaces and line breaks. Without spaces strips all whitespace before counting.
- How are emojis counted?
- We count grapheme clusters, so a flag emoji or a skin-tone variant counts as one character even though it may use multiple bytes.