Paste or type any text and get live word, character, sentence, and paragraph counts, plus estimated reading and speaking time. Everything updates as you type — no button, no upload, nothing leaves your browser.
Reading time assumes 200 words per minute; speaking time assumes 130. Counts are words separated by whitespace, sentences ending in . ! ?, and paragraphs separated by blank lines.
Word counts matter in more places than you might think. Students work against essay limits like “500 words, no more,” and knowing whether you’re at 480 or 610 before you submit is the difference between a polish pass and a panic cut. Bloggers and web writers watch numbers too: search engines reward depth, and most articles that rank well land somewhere between 800 and 2,500 words depending on the topic. Copywriters trim ad text to fit character caps, lawyers watch filing limits, translators quote jobs by volume — the number of words in a document quietly drives decisions across half a dozen professions.
Character counts are just as practical. Text messages cap out, tweets cap out, meta descriptions show roughly 155 characters in search results before Google truncates them, and every form field on the web seems to have its own opinion about how long your answer should be. The characters-without-spaces figure is the one programmers, translators, and typesetters care about, since whitespace is often free or counted separately.
Reading and speaking time estimates round the picture out. At an average silent reading speed of about 200 words per minute, a 1,000-word article takes roughly five minutes to read — which is why many blogs print that estimate right under the title. Speaking is slower: presenters average around 130 words per minute once you account for pauses, emphasis, and breathing. If you’re drafting a wedding toast, a five-minute lightning talk, or a podcast intro, those numbers tell you immediately whether your draft fits the slot you’ve been given.
Everything here runs locally in your browser. Your text is never uploaded, stored, or sent anywhere — the counting happens on your device, which makes this tool safe for drafts under NDA, client work, or anything else you wouldn’t paste into a random website. Type, count, done.