Count words, characters, sentences, and reading time — instantly, as you type. Built for essays, blog drafts, social posts, and SEO copy.
Counts run in your browser. Your draft, contract, or unpublished essay never touches our servers.
No spinners, no upload step. Type and the numbers move with you — even on a phone, even offline.
Reading time, speaking time, sentence and paragraph counts — the metrics that actually matter for essays, decks, and posts.
It splits your text on whitespace using a Unicode-aware regex, then counts the resulting tokens. Hyphenated words like 'state-of-the-art' count as one. Numbers and contractions count as words. Everything runs locally in your browser — no upload.
Yes. The counter, character counter, sentence counter and reading-time calculator are 100% free, with no sign-up and no cap. wordkit Pro adds AI rewriting, grammar checks, and tone analysis — but the counters stay free, forever.
Completely. Counting happens entirely in your browser via JavaScript. Nothing is sent to our servers, logged, or stored. You can paste a confidential draft, contract clause, or unpublished manuscript without it leaving your device.
We use 238 words per minute — the average silent reading speed for adults reading non-technical English (Brysbaert, 2019). For technical material, real reading time tends to be 30–50% longer.
Yes. The counter is Unicode-aware and works for any whitespace-separated language including Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and most European scripts. CJK languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) use the character count instead, since they don't use spaces.
Pro adds AI rewriting, tone shifts, plagiarism check, and grammar suggestions for $6/month. Cancel any time.