What it does
See how long your text really is while you write: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, and how long it takes to read or say out loud. Arabic is counted properly, which many counters get wrong: harakat (diacritics) don’t add characters, the tatweel stretch (ـ) isn’t a letter, and reading time uses the slower average pace for Arabic text. Emoji and flags count as one character, the way you see them. The limits section shows whether the text fits a Google title or meta description, a post on X (where links always count as 23), an Instagram caption, or a single SMS, which drops from 160 to 70 characters as soon as it contains one Arabic letter or emoji.
How to use it
- Type in the box or paste your text. Everything is counted as you type.
- Read the counts at a glance: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, and reading and speaking time.
- Check “Limits” to see whether the text fits a page title, a meta description, a post on X, an SMS or an Instagram caption.
- Look at “Most used words” to spot the words you repeat too often.
Common uses
- Keeping an essay, a cover letter or a university application within its word limit
- Writing a meta description or page title that won’t be cut off in Google results
- Checking whether a text message will be sent as one SMS or split into several paid parts
- Timing a speech or a video script before recording it
Tips
- An SMS with a single Arabic letter, emoji or curly quote (’) is sent in UCS-2 and holds 70 characters instead of 160. Replacing curly quotes with straight ones can save a whole message part.
- Word processors disagree on hyphenated words and numbers like 1,000. This counter treats each as one word, like Microsoft Word does.
- For a talk, plan for about 140 words a minute; a 5-minute slot fits roughly 700 words.