Character Counter
Count characters with and without spaces, plus check live limits for X/Twitter, SMS, Instagram and LinkedIn. Nothing is uploaded to any server.
Platform limits
Why use this character counter?
charactercounter.com dumps 20+ stats on you at once with no privacy statement. This tool shows the essentials clearly, states plainly that your text never leaves your browser, and adds live pass/fail checks against the platform limits people actually paste text for — X/Twitter, SMS, Instagram captions, and LinkedIn posts.
Frequently asked questions
Is this character counter free, with no signup?
Yes — 100% free, no account, no watermark, no limit on how much text you can check.
Is my text sent to a server?
No. Counting happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your text is never uploaded, stored, or seen by IT Cares.
How is the SMS character limit calculated?
Standard SMS is 160 characters per segment. Longer messages are split into multiple 153-character segments (7 characters are reserved per segment for concatenation) — we show both the single-segment and multi-segment counts.
Does it count emoji correctly?
Yes — the counter uses Unicode-aware counting, so multi-byte emoji and accented characters are each counted as one character, not split into surrogate pairs.