Count characters, including spaces and special characters. Ideal for social media posts and text limits.
Total Characters
0
Without Spaces
0
Words
0
Lines
0
This character counter gives you a live count of characters with spaces, characters without spaces, words and lines as you type. It is built for the many places where the limit is measured in characters rather than words: social media posts, SMS messages, form fields, database columns and SEO tags.
Because different platforms count differently — some by visible characters, some by bytes, some treating an emoji as one unit and some as two — the counter shows the figures most tools actually use so you can stay safely inside a limit.
X / Twitter post: 280 charactersSMS (single message): 160 characters, then 153 per segmentSEO meta title: about 60 characters before truncationSEO meta description: about 155–160 charactersInstagram caption: 2,200 charactersLinkedIn post: 3,000 characters13 characters with spaces, 12 without, 2 words, 1 line.
Aim for 155 characters with spaces. Google measures pixel width, but 155 characters is a safe proxy that rarely gets cut off on desktop.
A 161-character message is sent as two segments and counts as 306 characters (153 + 153) for billing, even though you only added one character.
"Hi 👋" is 4 characters if an emoji counts as one, but some systems count the emoji as two units. The counter shows the straightforward character count so you can leave a small safety margin.
On most platforms, yes. X, SMS, and SEO snippets all include spaces. The counter shows both figures so you can use whichever your target requires.
Yes, a line break is one character (sometimes two on Windows-style text). It is included in the "with spaces" figure.
This tool counts an emoji as the number of underlying text units it uses, which is one for simple emoji and more for combined ones like flags or skin-tone variants. Platforms vary, so leave a small margin.
X counts every URL as 23 characters regardless of its real length, and counts some non-Latin characters as two. Allow for that when your post contains links.
Around 150–160 characters. Longer descriptions get cut off with an ellipsis in search results.
No. Everything is counted locally in your browser.