Character Counter
Character Counter is a free web tool that counts characters, lines, and manuscript pages in real-time. With options to exclude spaces and line breaks, it's perfect for managing text length in blogs, reports, and social media posts.
What You Can Do
Character Counter is a tool that instantly measures character count, line count, and manuscript pages in real-time as you type. Perfect for checking SNS post character limits and managing essay/paper word counts. All processing happens in your browser for complete privacy.
- ✅ Real-time Counting: Instantly displays character count, line count, and manuscript pages as you type
- ✅ Whitespace Exclusion Options: Simultaneously check character count with/without line breaks and spaces
- ✅ Manuscript Page Conversion: Automatically calculates 400-character manuscript paper equivalents
Options to exclude line breaks and spaces. Check character counts with and without whitespace simultaneously.
💼 Use Cases
- Check essay or paper word count - Instantly verify if you meet character limits
- Manage SNS post length - Check character limits for Twitter, Instagram, etc.
- Calculate manuscript pages - Count pages for school assignments or writing contests
- Track article word count - Monitor character count while writing in real-time
- Adjust email length - Ensure appropriate length for business emails
How to Use
📌 Basic Usage
Type text into the text area and character count, line count, and manuscript pages will be calculated automatically.
⚙️ Optional Features
- Exclude line breaks: Remove line break characters from count
- Exclude spaces: Remove both half-width and full-width spaces from count
💡 Practical Uses
- Check essay or paper character count
- Verify SNS post character limits (Twitter, Instagram, etc.)
- Calculate manuscript page count for submissions
- Adjust email body length
- Manage article character count while writing
📱 Major SNS Character Limits
Each social media platform has character limits for posts. Use this tool to check beforehand.
| Service | Character Limit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Twitter (X) | 280 characters | Japanese/Chinese count as 2 characters each (effectively 140 characters) |
| Caption: 2,200 chars Bio: 150 chars |
Including hashtags | |
| 63,206 characters | Virtually unlimited | |
| LINE | 10,000 characters | Per message |
| Post: 3,000 chars Article: 110,000 chars |
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| Threads | 500 characters | Meta's new SNS platform |
* Information as of December 2025. Please check official guides for the latest information.
📄 What are 400-Character Manuscript Pages?
In Japanese education, the standard manuscript paper format is 20 characters × 20 lines = 400 characters per page. This format has been a tradition since the Meiji era and is still used today for assignments specified as "○ manuscript pages or less."
This tool automatically calculates how many manuscript pages your text equals. For example, a 1,200-character text equals 3 pages (1,200÷400=3) of manuscript paper.
Unicode Character Counting (Emoji & Special Characters)
This tool counts emoji and special characters as 1 character each. For example, "😊" and "™" count as 1 character. However, some services (like Twitter) may count emoji as 2 characters, so we recommend verifying before posting.
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