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Character Counter

Count characters, letters, numbers, spaces, and special characters with optional character limit tracking.

0Total Characters
0No Spaces
0Letters
0Numbers
0Spaces
0Special Chars

About Character Counter

The character counter is perfect for social media posts, SMS messages, meta descriptions, and any content with strict character limits. It breaks down your text into different character types so you understand exactly what makes up your content.

How to Use

  1. Type or paste your text into the textarea above.
  2. All statistics update instantly as you type.
  3. Enable the character limit option and enter a limit to track usage with a progress bar.
  4. The progress bar turns yellow at 80% and red when the limit is exceeded.

How It Works

Total characters counts every character including spaces. Characters without spaces removes all whitespace before counting. Letters counts only a-z and A-Z. Numbers counts only 0-9 digits. Spaces counts all space characters. Special characters counts everything that is not a letter, number, or space.

FAQ

Yes, a newline (Enter key) counts as one character in the total character count. It is counted as a space in the spaces category.
Any character that is not a letter (a-z, A-Z), digit (0-9), or whitespace counts as a special character. This includes punctuation marks like ! ? . , ; : " ' and symbols like @ # $ % & * ( ).
Twitter/X allows 280 characters per tweet. Set the limit to 280 to track your tweet length. SMS messages are typically 160 characters for standard GSM encoding.
No. All character counting happens locally in your browser. Your text is never sent to any server.