Does the character counter include spaces?

It shows both counts side by side — total characters including spaces, and characters excluding spaces — since different platforms and forms count differently.

Why does my SMS limit show 70 characters instead of 160?

Carriers switch an SMS to Unicode encoding as soon as it contains an emoji or a non-Latin character, which cuts the per-message limit from 160 characters to 70.

Does this count emoji as one character?

Most emoji count as one character in this tool, matching how JavaScript and most web platforms measure text length, though some complex emoji built from multiple code points may count as more than one.

Character Counter

Paste or type your text to instantly count characters, letters, digits, spaces, and more.

Your Text

Total Characters

Without Spaces

Letters Only

Digits Only

Spaces

Special Characters

Lines

Unique Characters

Top 10 Character Frequency

Type some text above to see character frequency.

How to use

Type or paste your text into the textarea above.
All character statistics update in real time as you type.
Special characters include punctuation, symbols, and non-alphanumeric characters.
The frequency table shows the top 10 most common characters with visual bars.
Unique characters counts how many distinct characters appear in your text.

About this Character Counter

A character counter measures every character in a block of text, including letters, numbers, punctuation, and spaces. It matters most when a platform or form enforces a hard limit — go one character over and a post gets truncated, a form gets rejected, or a title gets cut off in search results.

Common character limits worth knowing

X (Twitter) post: 280 characters
SMS text message: 160 characters (70 if it contains emoji or non-Latin characters, since that switches the message to Unicode encoding)
Google title tag: roughly 50–60 characters before truncation in search results
Meta description: roughly 150–160 characters
Instagram bio: 150 characters
YouTube video title: 100 characters

With spaces vs. without spaces

Most platform limits count spaces as characters — an SMS limit of 160 includes every space in the message. A small number of legacy systems (some old database fields, certain print specifications) only count non-space characters, so this tool tracks both numbers separately.

Example

The sentence "Free shipping on orders over $50" is 33 characters with spaces and 28 without. That fits comfortably inside an SMS limit, an X post, or a meta description with room to spare.