Character Counter
Paste text and instantly count characters with spaces, characters without spaces, UTF-8 bytes, and lines. Built for hard limits rather than for documents: social posts, meta descriptions, ad copy, SMS segments, and form fields. If you are counting the length of an article or an essay, use the Word Counter instead — it is Markdown-aware and reports words, sentences, paragraphs and reading time.
Against common limits
Counts are plain characters. Emoji and accented letters can cost more than one byte, so check the UTF-8 byte count above for anything with a byte limit.
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About Character Counter
Count characters and UTF-8 bytes against the limits that matter: an X post, a meta description, an SMS, a LinkedIn headline. Free, browser-only, no signup. This tool runs entirely in your browser, so your content is not sent to a server. MarkdownMe provides free, fast, and reliable Markdown tools for developers, writers, and anyone who works with Markdown.