Character Counter
Characters with and without spaces, plus platform limits
Platform limits
Character counter with spaces and without spaces
The counter shows both figures at once, because forms disagree about which one they mean. Most online limits — social posts, application boxes, meta descriptions — count spaces, so the with-spaces number is the one to fit. Some academic and publishing limits count characters without spaces; if a brief does not say, assume spaces count and you will not be caught short.
The two figures differ by roughly one character in six for ordinary English, which is how often a space appears in normal prose.
Tweet, Instagram caption and LinkedIn character counter
Under the counts, the tool measures your text against five common limits at once and shows how much of each you have used, with a bar that fills as you type and flags any limit you go over: 280 characters for a post on X (Twitter), 2,200 for an Instagram caption, 3,000 for a LinkedIn post, 60 for an SEO title and 155 for a meta description. Paste the draft once and you can see whether it fits everywhere it is going.
Each platform also counts some things in its own way — links and some emoji in particular — so a draft that sits right at the limit here can be a few characters out once posted. Leave a small margin.
Line counter
The line count is the number of separate lines in the box, counting each line break. That is the number you need for lists, poems, CSV rows or code, where a "line" means a line and not a sentence. A long paragraph that wraps across the screen still counts as one line, because it contains no line break.
About the Character Counter
Count characters with and without spaces and check your text against the limits for meta descriptions, title tags and social posts before you publish.