About this site

Word Counter is a small, independent web tool built and maintained by a solo developer. It does one job: count the things writers actually need counted — words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, keyword frequency and platform character limits — quickly, in the browser, with no sign-up.

Accuracy principles

• Every rule is stated. A count is only trustworthy if you know the rule behind it. This site documents exactly how words are tokenized, how characters are measured (Unicode code points), and how sentences are split — including the known failure case with abbreviations, which is why the sentence stat is labeled approximate.
• No fabricated numbers. Reading time uses 238 words per minute from Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis of adult silent-reading speeds; speaking time uses a commonly cited ~150 words per minute. Platform limits are current commonly documented values, with caveats noted where platforms count differently (X's weighted characters, SMS encoding shifts).
• Estimates are labeled as estimates. Where a number is inherently approximate — reading speed, feed truncation points — the page says so instead of presenting a range as a fact.

Privacy principle

The counting logic runs entirely in your browser. Text you type or paste is never sent to a server, never logged and never stored — there is no backend to send it to. See the privacy policy for the full picture, including how ads and anonymous traffic analytics are handled if enabled.

Corrections

Platforms change their limits without notice. If you spot a number on this site that has gone stale, or a counting edge case that behaves oddly, please get in touch — verified corrections are shipped quickly.