Count characters, words, lines, sentences and unique characters in any text.
A character counter is a free online tool that counts the exact number of characters in any text, with or without spaces. It shows live counts against popular platform limits — Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, SMS and Meta Ads — so you always know exactly how close you are to the limit before posting.
Count characters before tweeting to stay within the 280-character limit without unexpected truncation.
Check your caption length against the 2,200-character Instagram limit and recommended engagement length.
Monitor your LinkedIn post length — shorter posts (under 1,300 chars) typically get higher engagement.
Count characters for SMS messages — messages over 160 characters are split into multiple texts, increasing cost.
Twitter (now X) allows 280 characters per tweet for standard users. URLs always count as 23 characters regardless of actual length.
Instagram captions can be up to 2,200 characters, but only the first 125 characters show before the 'more' button. Keep the most important content in the first 125 characters.
A standard SMS is 160 characters using GSM-7 encoding. Messages longer than 160 are sent as multiple SMS messages, each counted separately for billing.
Yes — spaces count as characters on all platforms. The tool shows counts both with and without spaces.