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Character Counter

Text Utilities

Count characters, letters, digits, spaces, and lines as you type. Emoji count as one character, all in your browser.

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Key Capabilities

Live Statistics

Characters, characters without spaces, letters, digits, spaces, and lines update as you type.

Emoji and Accents Count Once

An emoji, a flag, a family emoji, or a letter with a combining accent is one character, not several.

Clear Definitions

Spaces are whitespace that is not a line break, and characters without spaces leaves out all whitespace.

Private by Design

Everything is computed in your browser. Your text is never uploaded or stored.

100% Client-Side Processing

When you use Character Counter, your data never leaves your browser. All transformations execute in-memory on your local machine with zero server uploads. Web assets are downloaded to run the tool, but your input data is never transmitted.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my text sent to a server?

No. The statistics are computed in your browser as you type. Nothing is uploaded or stored. The page does download the code needed to run the tool.

Why can the count differ from JavaScript's string length?

JavaScript's length counts UTF-16 code units, so a single emoji can count as 2 or more. This tool counts user-perceived characters (extended grapheme clusters), so it counts one emoji as one.

Does a family emoji or flag count as one character?

Yes. Sequences joined by zero-width joiners, skin-tone modifiers, flags, and letters with combining marks are each one character, and a Windows line break (CRLF) is one.

What counts as a space?

Spaces, tabs, non-breaking spaces, and other whitespace that is not a line break. Characters excluding spaces leaves out all whitespace, including line breaks.