Word Counter

Paste text to see word count, character count, reading time, and platform limits — right in your browser.

Word counter, character counter & reading time calculator — paste text, get instant stats Word Counter is a paste-and-read tool for writers, students, social-media managers, and SEO editors who need fast, private word count, character count, and reading-time stats on a piece of text — without pasting it into a SaaS tool that stores or analyzes it server-side. Paste your text in, and the popup instantly shows: - Word count, character count (with and without spaces), sentence count, and paragraph/line count — computed with proper unicode handling (emoji, accented letters, and CJK text count correctly, not just a naive character tally). - Estimated reading time and speaking time, updated live as you type. PRIVATE BY DESIGN This is a paste-mode tool: it never reads the active tab or any page content, requests no host permissions, and injects no scripts. The text you paste never leaves your browser. This extension collects no data of any kind — no analytics, no tracking, no telemetry. The only network traffic it ever makes is a purchase-verification check with ExtensionPay if you choose to upgrade. ESTIMATES, CLEARLY LABELED Reading time (200 words/minute) and speaking time (130 words/minute) are commonly-cited estimates, not a measurement of your actual pace. The SEO meta-description preset (160 characters) is a widely-used guideline approximating how search engines truncate snippets, not a hard, guaranteed cutoff — Google does not publish an exact character limit. The X/Twitter (280), Instagram (2,200), and LinkedIn (3,000) presets reflect each platform's publicly documented limit as of writing; a platform could change its limit at any time. FREE, AND GENUINELY USEFUL - Word count, character count (with/without spaces), sentence count, and paragraph/line count. - Reading time and speaking time estimates. - Fully unicode-correct: emoji, accented letters, and CJK text are counted the way a person would count them, not by raw byte/code-unit length. PREMIUM ($5 one-time) Built for anyone publishing to a character-limited platform or optimizing copy: - Platform character-limit presets with progress bars: X/Twitter post, Instagram caption, SEO meta description, LinkedIn post — see at a glance how much room you have left, or how far over you are. - Keyword density: a stopword-aware frequency table of your text's most common words, useful for a quick SEO gut-check. - Local history: save named snapshots of your text and its stats, reload them later — stored only on your device. No subscription, no account required — pay once, keep the features.