Free Character Counter Online

Get detailed character analysis — count letters, digits, spaces, and special characters in your text.

📊 Character Counter

How It Works

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Enter Text

Type or paste text you want to analyze into the text area above.

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Click Analyze

Press the button to get instant character analysis results.

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Review Breakdown

See total characters, letters, digits, spaces, and special characters with counts.

Detailed Character Analysis for Any Text

Understanding the character composition of your text is important for many professional and academic tasks. Our character counter provides a detailed breakdown that goes beyond simple character counting, showing you exactly how many letters, digits, spaces, and special characters your text contains.

This tool is particularly useful for social media posts where character limits apply, such as Twitter (280 characters), SMS messages (160 characters), and meta descriptions (155-160 characters for optimal SEO). By knowing your exact character count, you can craft messages that fit within platform limits without being cut off.

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Deep Analysis

See breakdown by category: letters, digits, spaces, special characters.

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Social Media Ready

Check character counts for Twitter, SMS, and other platforms with limits.

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SEO Optimization

Keep meta descriptions and titles within Google's recommended character limits.

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Developer Utility

Analyze string content for validation, input checks, and data quality.

Our character analysis also includes the count without spaces, which is useful for academic writing where many style guides count characters excluding whitespace. The breakdown by character type helps developers validate input fields and content managers ensure data quality in their CMS systems.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does it count Unicode characters?
Yes, our counter handles Unicode characters including emojis, accented letters, and characters from non-Latin scripts. Each character counts as one regardless of byte size.
What counts as a special character?
Special characters include punctuation (periods, commas, quotes), symbols (@, #, $, %), brackets, and any character that is not a letter, digit, or space.
How is this different from Word Counter?
Word Counter focuses on word-level metrics (words, sentences, paragraphs). Character Counter provides character-level analysis (letter types, digits, symbols).

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