Character Counter

Accurately count the number of characters in your text with or without spaces. Perfect for staying within limits for social media posts, SMS messages, meta tags, and essay requirements.

When to Use a Character Counter?

While word counts are important for essays and articles, character counts are what actually matter when you are dealing with databases, social media, and structural web elements.

Social Media Limits

• X (Twitter): 280 characters
• Instagram: 2,200 characters for captions, 150 for bio
• TikTok: 2,200 characters for descriptions
• LinkedIn: 3,000 characters for standard posts, 120 for headline
• YouTube: 100 chars for titles, 5,000 for descriptions

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Google usually displays the first 50–60 characters of a Title tag. If you write more, the text gets truncated with ellipses (...). Meta descriptions are similarly limited to about 155–160 characters. Staying strictly within these limits prevents bad formatting on search result pages.

SMS Marketing

A standard SMS message is limited to 160 characters. Exceeding this limit splits your message into two, costing you double the price for SMS marketing campaigns.