Character and word counter online - with and without spaces

A single SMS in the GSM-7 alphabet holds 160 characters; longer messages are split into parts of 153. Characters such as € [ ] { } ^ ~ \ | take two positions. Any character outside GSM-7 (accented letters like ą or ś, emoji) switches the whole message to UCS-2, where the limit is 70 UTF-16 units, or 67 per part. A simple emoji usually takes two units; composed emoji can take more.

The title and description shown in Google depend on character width, device and query; Google can also compose them from page content. 50-60 characters for a title and 150-160 for a meta description are rough writing guides, not fixed limits.

• X (Twitter) - up to 280 characters in a standard post; links count as 23 characters.
• Instagram caption - 2,200 characters; LinkedIn post - 3,000.
• Google Ads - 30 characters per headline and 90 per description.
• Reading time assumes 200 words per minute, speaking time 130 words per minute.

Characters with spaces include every letter, digit, punctuation mark, space, tab and line break. Characters without spaces exclude all whitespace. Emoji and accented letters count as one character each, the way a reader sees them. Example: “Hello, world!” has 13 characters with spaces and 12 without.

Words are sequences of letters and digits; hyphenated words and contractions such as “well-known” or “don’t” count as one. Sentences end with . ! ? or …, and paragraphs are blocks separated by a blank line. The “Most frequent words” table skips short function words and numbers, which helps you spot repetition in an essay or overused keywords in web copy.

A standard page (used in Polish translation and publishing) is 1,800 characters with spaces - 30 lines of 60 characters. A 9,000-character text is therefore exactly 5 pages.

To see what changed between two drafts of the same text, use the diff checker.