Count characters as you type — and see at a glance whether your text fits a tweet, a meta description, an SMS, or a YouTube title.
Standard ASCII characters each count as 1, the same way every platform measures them.
Periods, commas, dashes and currency signs all count. So do brackets and quotation marks.
A space is 1 character. Line breaks count as 1 on most platforms; we display both totals.
Most emoji count as 2 on Twitter and SMS. We follow each platform's actual encoding rules.
With spaces counts every keystroke including the space bar. Without spaces is the count of just letters, numbers, and punctuation. Most platforms (Twitter, SMS, meta descriptions) count with spaces — that's the headline number on this page.
On Twitter, SMS, and many SEO snippets, emoji are encoded as surrogate pairs that take up 2 character slots. wordkit follows each platform's actual encoding behavior, so what you see is what those platforms will measure.
Google typically displays 155–160 characters of a meta description on desktop and slightly less on mobile. Anything beyond that gets truncated with an ellipsis, so we flag 160 as the practical ceiling.
Yes — on most platforms a line break is one character. We include line breaks in the main count and call them out in the breakdown so you can plan paragraph spacing.
Yes. Counting runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or stored — paste a confidential draft without worry.
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