Live word, character, sentence and paragraph counts as you type, plus reading time, speaking time and keyword density. Everything runs in your browser — your text never leaves your device. 📝
Live as you type
🔒 Counting happens entirely in your browser — your text never leaves your device.
Every keystroke updates the counts instantly — no button mashing needed while you write.
Top-10 keyword table (stopwords filtered) shows which words you repeat and how often.
Drafts, essays and confidential copy are analyzed locally — nothing is uploaded.
Almost everything you write in 2026 has a length target. College application essays via the Common App cap out at 650 words; many class assignments specify 500, 1,000 or 2,500 words; and standard US college admissions short answers run 150–250 words. A free word counter takes the guesswork out — paste your draft and instantly see whether you need to trim or expand, plus sentence and paragraph counts to gauge structure.
Character limits rule the web: an X (Twitter) post is 280 characters for standard accounts, an Instagram caption allows 2,200, a LinkedIn post about 3,000, and a YouTube title 100. For SEO, Google typically displays around 60 characters of a title tag and roughly 155–160 characters of a meta description before truncating — the "characters (no spaces)" and "characters" stats here let you stay inside every one of those limits.
The reading time estimate uses 238 words per minute, the average adult silent-reading speed found in a large 2019 meta-analysis, while speaking time uses 130 wpm, a comfortable presentation pace — handy for timing a 5-minute speech (about 650 words) or a wedding toast. The keyword density table filters out about 50 common English stopwords ("the", "and", "with"…) and shows your top 10 substantive words with counts and percentages, a quick way to catch repetitive phrasing or check that your target keyword appears naturally (most SEO writers aim for roughly 1–2%).