Count words and characters online

Course rubrics, SEO briefs, ad platforms, and journal submission forms all speak in lengths. A dedicated counter lets you tune drafts without keeping a heavy document editor open, handy in Slack threads, narrow CMS textareas, or lightweight note apps. Separating "characters with spaces" from "no spaces" also mirrors how some APIs, SMS gateways, and legacy forms enforce caps.

Reading time at 200 wpm tracks what readers expect from Medium-style estimates; speaking time at 130 wpm helps map a script to a ten-minute slot without a stopwatch. Pair this page with the case converter when titles arrive in shouting caps, or the whitespace cleaner when paste-ins carry PDF junk spacing that inflates character totals.

This is a private word counter: paste an essay, caption, or script and the counts update in your tab. Nothing is posted to UseBoldTools for analysis, and you do not create an account. That matters for unpublished drafts, client copy, and school work you would rather not send to a third-party server.

If a tool asks you to sign in or shows a progress spinner after paste, assume the text left the device. This page counts locally in the tab.

Reading time uses 200 words per minute, a common silent-reading estimate for blog posts and help articles. Speaking time uses 130 words per minute, closer to a presentation, podcast, or voiceover pace. Both values round up to whole minutes so a 10-word note still shows as 1 minute.

Use reading time when you are sizing an article. Use speaking time when you are fitting remarks to a slot. Copy Stats copies words, characters, and the reading-time line so you can paste the summary into Slack or a brief.

The chips under the editor compare your live character count (with spaces) to the public caps people actually search for: X/Twitter 280, Instagram caption 2,200, Instagram bio 150, LinkedIn post 3,000, Google title about 60, meta description about 155, and SMS 160.

Green means you still have room. Red means you are over. These are the widely published limits, not ads-manager or premium expansions — trim here, then confirm in the destination app if that product has a different cap.

1. Paste or type into the box. Word and character counts update under the editor as you edit.
2. Use Paste, Copy stats, or Clear on the editor toolbar. Try sample loads a short demo.
3. Extra stats under the box cover characters without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, and speaking time.
4. Check the platform chips for X, Instagram, LinkedIn, SEO title/meta, and SMS remaining or over.

Paste exactly this single line (six words, predictable punctuation):

One two three. Four five six.

• Words: 6
• Sentences: 2 (split on . ! ?)
• Paragraphs: 1 block
• Reading time: 1 minute at 200 wpm (rounds up)

Words gate long-form content and academic limits. Characters, usually including spaces, gate tweets, meta descriptions, SMS, and some ad lines. Stripped counts help compare the "payload" of two drafts when spaces differ. Neither metric tells you quality; they only keep you inside the box the channel gives you.

If you are chasing a strict word ceiling, trim sections in your editor first, then verify here. If you chase a character ceiling, toggle between Characters and No Spaces to see whether whitespace is eating your budget.