Effortlessly count your characters with our user-friendly character counter tool. Perfect for writers, students, and professionals.

Online Character Counter

Paste your text below to instantly count the number of characters in your text.

Get a free character count instantly

QuillBot’s free letter counter is a fast and easy way to get the character count of a piece of text. Our tool is simple and straightforward and only gives the most essential information. This makes it great for supporting writers of all kinds with a variety of projects. Try getting a character count for social media posts, homework assignments, personal writing, and much more.

What can you do with our character counter?

Monitor length

Know text length as you work

Meet limits

Avoid rework by ensuring text is the perfect length

Stay concise

Understand if writing is too dense and wordy

Plan content

Ensure text will fit into a design or page

What can our character counter be used for?

Schoolwork

Ensure you stay within length requirements

Marketing

Adjust length of subject lines, ads, and more

Social media

Keep your posts within platform limits

SEO

Optimize titles, meta descriptions, and more

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Character counter FAQs

Got a question about our character count tool? Find out if we’ve answered it here.

The best way to know how many characters are in your text is to use QuillBot’s free character counter tool. It will instantly give you the exact length of your writing.

Using QuillBot’s letter counter is easy. Just follow these steps:

1. Type or paste your text into the box
2. Decide if you want to include spaces in the count (toggle on/off)
3. Receive the final character count
4. Export or copy/paste your text to use elsewhere

No, our character counter does not have a limit on the amount of text you can put in at once.

Yes. Our letter counter tracks the number of characters in a text, regardless of its language. This makes it perfect for multilingual projects.

Each project is different, but here are some common character limits to be aware of.

X (formerly Twitter): 280
Facebook: 63,206
LinkedIn: 13,000 (140 until a "Read More" break)
Instagram: 2,200
Yelp: 5,000
Pinterest: 500
Reddit title: 300
Ebay title: 80
SEO titles: 60
SEO descriptions: 160
SMS: 160

Remember, every platform is different. When getting a character count, make sure to consult your project requirements carefully.