Character Counter
Character counting with and without spaces, checked against the limits for social platforms, meta descriptions and SMS.
DEPLOY.md.Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded.
How to use it
- Paste your text into the input area
- Compare the count against the platform limit shown alongside
- Trim the text until you are inside the limit
Tips that actually help
- Meta descriptions should stay under 155 characters to avoid truncation
- Spaces count on every social platform, use the with-spaces figure
About Character Counter
Character counting with and without spaces, checked against the limits for social platforms, meta descriptions and SMS. It is one of 6 free online tools on Text Toolkit, all of which run without a download and without an account.
People searching for character counter with spaces for twitter and meta usually want the same three things: it has to work immediately, it has to work on a phone, and it has to be genuinely free rather than free-until-the-paywall. Character Counter is built to satisfy all three — there is no sign-up step, no install and no daily limit on the core functionality.
Because the processing happens locally in your browser, there is no upload wait and no queue. Even on a slow connection the tool responds immediately, and nothing you type is ever transmitted anywhere.
What makes it different
Most pages ranking for this term are buried under interstitials, cookie walls and pop-ups before you reach the thing you came for. Text Toolkit takes the opposite approach: the tool loads in the first screen, advertising is placed around the content rather than in front of it, and every page states plainly what you get before you commit time to it.
Common mistakes to avoid
Meta descriptions should stay under 155 characters to avoid truncation. Spaces count on every social platform, use the with-spaces figure These are the two things that separate people who get good results here from people who get frustrated — both are small habits rather than anything technical.