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Character Counter

Count characters with and without spaces.

How to Use Character Counter

1

Paste your caption, headline or message into the input box and watch the character total move as you type.

2

Set the limit to the number that matters, such as 280 for a post or 160 for a single SMS segment.

3

Click the "Process" button to see the with-spaces and without-spaces counts side by side along with the characters remaining.

4

Copy the trimmed text with one click once the counter shows you are comfortably inside the limit.

Features

Counts characters with spaces and without spaces at the same time
Set a custom limit and see how many characters you have left
Estimates SMS segments using the correct GSM or Unicode rules
Handles emoji and accented characters as single visible characters
Copy the result in one click or download it as a .txt file
Works offline in your browser with no account and no uploads

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, the tool is free for unlimited use. You do not need to register, and there is nothing to buy or upgrade later.
The counting runs entirely inside your browser, so the text you paste is never transmitted or stored. Close the tab and it is gone.
Plain GSM text fits 160 characters per segment, but as soon as you include an emoji or a character outside the GSM set, the encoding switches and the limit falls to 70. The counter flags this so you can split the message deliberately instead of paying for extra segments by accident.
For ordinary Latin text, yes - pixels and character counts line up closely. Emoji and multi-byte scripts are the exception, where Google measures rendered width rather than a simple character count, so leave a little headroom.

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About Character Counter

Plenty of the limits you run into online are not measured in words at all. A tweet or X post stops at 280 characters, a Google meta description is expected to sit around 155 to 160 characters before it gets truncated, an SEO title usually has about 60 characters of room, and a standard SMS segment holds 160. The character counter reports the total with spaces, the total without spaces, and the number of characters left against a limit you choose.

SMS is the case where the distinction matters most. Messages encoded in GSM 7-bit fit 160 characters per segment, while any emoji or non-Latin character forces UCS-2 encoding and drops the limit to 70 per segment. A counter that only shows you a raw number will not warn you about that, so it is worth checking the segment estimate before you send a campaign to thousands of subscribers.

Emoji and other multi-code-point characters are counted the way a modern platform does, so a family emoji is treated as one visible character rather than several code units. Paste your meta description, your headline draft or your next post and see exactly how much room is left before the ellipsis appears in a search result.

When to Use This Tool

  • Keeping a tweet, X post or LinkedIn update inside its character limit
  • Writing meta descriptions that will not be cut off in Google results
  • Measuring SMS campaign length and estimating the number of billable segments
  • Checking whether an Instagram caption, YouTube title or description fits
  • Trimming database fields or API inputs that have a fixed maximum length