Character Counter
Count characters with and without spaces instantly.
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How to Use
- 1Paste or type your text.
- 2View the live character count.
- 3Copy your text when ready.
Features
- Character count with and without spaces
- Live updates as you type
- Useful for meta descriptions & social posts
Example
Input
PDUtilities
Output
11 characters
Get an exact character count for your text, with and without spaces, useful for meta descriptions, tweets and character-limited fields.
When characters count more than words
Many fields on the web limit characters, not words: search result snippets, social media posts, text messages, app store descriptions, form fields and database columns. The counter shows the total with and without spaces, live as you type, so you can trim to fit before you hit the limit.
Common character limits
| Where | Limit (approx.) |
|---|---|
| Page title shown in Google results | 50–60 characters |
| Meta description shown in Google results | 150–160 characters |
| Post on X (Twitter), standard account | 280 characters |
| Single SMS (plain Latin characters) | 160 characters |
| Single SMS with Unicode (e.g. Devanagari, emoji) | 70 characters |
| Instagram caption | 2,200 characters |
| YouTube video title | 100 characters |
Search engine limits are really pixel widths, so wide letters like W and M use up the space faster than narrow ones like i and l. Staying under the character figures above keeps most titles and descriptions from being cut off with “…”.
With or without spaces?
Most online limits count spaces. Some academic and translation work counts characters without spaces. The counter shows both so you can match whichever rule applies. Line breaks count as characters too, which is easy to forget when pasting a multi-line bio into a single field.
Emoji and non-Latin scripts
Some platforms count an emoji or an accented character as two characters, because of how the text is stored internally. If you are right at a limit and your text includes emoji, leave a few characters of margin.
Need word count, sentences and reading time too? Use the Word Counter.