MultiConvers

Character Counter

Count characters first — the length of the string, including spaces and line breaks — then characters with whitespace stripped, plus words. The same local engine as Word Counter, aimed at people watching a length cap. The box is not uploaded.

How to use

  1. Paste or type. Counting updates in the browser; nothing is posted to MultiConvers.
  2. Read characters as the headline, then characters without spaces, then words.
  3. Compare the number to the limit you care about (a form, an SMS product, a title field). This page will not print a live platform cap.
  4. Open Word Counter if you need sentences and paragraphs as well. Those extras are omitted here on purpose.

How it works

The main count is `text.length`: every letter, digit, punctuation mark, space, tab and newline. “Hello world” is 11 characters. “a b” is 3 because the space is a character. That is the number most “max 280” and “max 160” boxes care about, unless the product says otherwise.

Characters without spaces run a whitespace strip, including newlines. “Hello world” becomes 10. A poem with line breaks loses those breaks in the second figure. Use that when you want “how many glyphs,” not “how long is the payload including layout.”

Words are still non-whitespace tokens, so you can see whether a caption is 12 words while you watch the character cap. Contractions stay one word. This page does not show sentence or paragraph totals — Word Counter does — because a bio field rarely needs them.

Platform limits change. Twitter/X, SMS, Instagram, Google titles and app-store subtitles have all moved. Printing a stale 140 or 160 here would be worse than printing none. Count on this page, compare to the product you are typing into today.

Text never leaves the device. Refreshing discards it. Not a grammar checker, not a unicode-code-point explainer for emoji clusters (the count is JavaScript string length as the engine implements it), and not a plagiarism tool.

Formula

Characters = length of the text
Characters without spaces = length after removing whitespace
Words = non-whitespace tokens

Worked examples

  • A short phrase

    Hello world → 11 characters, 10 without spaces, 2 words

  • Spaces matter

    a b → 3 characters, 2 without spaces

Useful notes

  • Your text stays in the browser. Refreshing or leaving the page discards it.
  • This page does not claim current Twitter/X, SMS or Instagram limits.
  • Sentence and paragraph counts live on Word Counter, not here.

FAQ

Do spaces count as characters?

Yes, in the main count. The second figure removes all whitespace if you need letters-and-punctuation only.

Is my text uploaded?

No. The count runs in your browser. MultiConvers does not send the box contents to a server.

Do you show Twitter or SMS limits?

No. Platform caps change. Count the characters here and compare them to the limit you care about.

Why is this different from Word Counter?

Same local counts for characters and words. This page emphasises characters and omits sentences and paragraphs.

Do line breaks count as characters?

Yes in the main total. The “without spaces” figure removes all whitespace, including those breaks.

Related tools

See all Text tools.