Character Counter
Count characters in text (with and without spaces).
Character count will appear here.
What This Tool Does
Character limits show up everywhere — a tweet, a meta description, a form field with a hard cap — and manually counting characters in anything longer than a short sentence isn't realistic. Paste your text in and this tool counts it for you instantly, reporting two slightly different totals depending on how you want leading and trailing whitespace handled.
How to Use It
Paste or type your text into the box and click Count Characters. The result gives you two numbers: one excluding leading and trailing spaces, and one including them. There's no length limit on the input — paste as much text as you need counted, and the result updates instantly regardless of size.
The Formula
The "excluding" count trims whitespace from only the very start and end of your text, then measures what's left. The "including" count is simply the raw, untrimmed length of exactly what you typed or pasted. Both figures count every space, tab, and line break that appears in the middle of your text identically — the two counts only ever differ because of whitespace sitting at the outer edges, not because of any difference in how internal spacing is handled.
A Worked Example
Take the text " Hello, World! " — two spaces at the very start, two at the very end, 13 characters of actual content in between. The excluding-whitespace count reads 13, matching "Hello, World!" once the outer spaces are stripped away. The including-whitespace count reads 17, since it measures the string exactly as typed, outer spaces and all — 13 content characters plus the 4 leading and trailing spaces around them.
FAQ
- Does it count spaces?
- It shows both counts: character count excluding leading/trailing spaces, and character count including all spaces.
- What is the maximum text length?
- There is no practical limit — you can paste very large amounts of text and get an instant count.