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Characters with spaces
A character counter built for the limits that matter. Live progress bars for Twitter, SMS, meta descriptions, and title tags. Type, paste, or upload your file.
Type your text and watch the bars fill. Green is safe, orange is close, red is over.
Live progress bars for the most common character limits on the web.
Most online tools throw a single number at you and call it a day. The Word Counter Online shows you the limits that actually matter — Twitter, SMS, meta descriptions, title tags — with live colour-coded progress bars so you know at a glance whether your text fits.
Google truncates page titles in search results around 60 characters. Anything longer gets cut off mid-sentence with an ellipsis. Use the title-tag bar above to write titles that display in full and earn more clicks.
Meta descriptions are the snippet shown under your title in Google search results. They cap at roughly 160 characters on desktop and even less on mobile. Hit that target precisely with the meta-description bar.
Standard X posts are limited to 280 characters. The bar will turn orange as you approach the limit and red if you go over. If you cross 280, your post will need to be split into a thread.
A single SMS holds 160 characters. Beyond that, your message is split into multiple SMS by the carrier, which can affect delivery cost. Watch the SMS bar to keep your message in one piece.
Facebook posts under 500 characters get the highest engagement, according to Facebook's own research. Instagram captions cap at 2,200 characters, but only the first 125 show before the "more" cut — so front-load your hook.
Most platforms count characters including spaces (this is the standard). Some tools, especially academic word-count tools, exclude spaces. We show both numbers prominently so you always have what you need.