Paste or type your text and watch every count update live: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, and your longest word. Free, unlimited, and your text never leaves your browser.
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Paste reads like ChatGPT wrote it? Our humanizer rewrites it until it is undetectable and reads naturally, and your text carries over in one click.
Try the humanizerGet an instant estimate of how likely your text is to read as AI output, with the exact patterns that triggered the score.
Run the free detector5,000 humanizer words included, then $9.99/month. Cancel anytime. Prefer no subscription? The Essay Pack is $10.99 for 30,000 words, one time.
See pricingMost counters stop at words and characters. This one tracks the metrics writers actually get graded, published, or rejected on: words, characters with spaces, characters without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, estimated reading time, and even the longest word in your text. Every number updates the instant you type or paste, with nothing to submit and nothing to wait for.
Because the counting runs entirely in your browser, it works on any length of text, from a tweet to a full thesis chapter, and it is private by design. Nothing you paste is uploaded, stored, or seen by anyone.
Character limits are everywhere: 280 for a post on X, roughly 155 to 160 for a meta description, 160 for an SMS, 2,200 for an Instagram caption. Word limits rule the other side of the desk: the Common App essay caps at 650 words, most college supplements sit between 150 and 400, and a typical blog post lands between 1,500 and 2,500 words.
The reading time estimate uses the standard 200 words per minute benchmark for adult silent reading, so you can sanity check how long a speech, article, or newsletter will take your audience. When the draft is the right length but reads a little robotic, the humanizer and AI detector linked above pick up exactly where this tool stops.
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Any run of characters separated by whitespace counts as one word, the same rule used by Word, Google Docs, and most college portals. Hyphenated terms like state-of-the-art count as a single word, and numbers count as words too. The counter updates live as you type, so the number you see always matches the current text.
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