Word Counter & Character Counter - CounterWords

Free word counter and character counter for any page in your browser. Select text, get the count. No sign-up, no upload, works offline. WHAT IT COUNTS - Word count and character count, with and without spaces - Sentences, paragraphs, lines and unique words - Reading time and speaking time, both adjustable - Most repeated words, so you can spot the ones you lean on WHY YOUR WORD COUNT NEVER MATCHES MICROSOFT WORD Because every tool counts different things, and almost none of them say which. Hyphenated terms, contractions, numbers, URLs, headings, footnotes, reference lists - each one is a decision, and each one changes your total. CounterWords puts all sixteen of those rules in front of you and lets you set them. Counting "well-known" as one word or two, excluding a bibliography from an essay limit, ignoring URLs in a draft: your call, and the number updates straight away. No other counting extension shows you this. WORKS WHERE OTHER WORD COUNTERS FAIL - Text boxes, comment fields and rich text editors, not just plain page text - Sign-in pages and other forms inside iframes - Google Docs, PDF viewers and canvas editors, by counting what you copy - Any website, in any language that uses spaces between words GOOGLE DOCS Docs draws your document onto a canvas rather than into the page, so no extension can read it directly - anything claiming otherwise is guessing. CounterWords handles it the honest way: select your text, press Ctrl+C, click the icon, then "Count copied text". The same route works for PDFs. PRIVATE BY DESIGN The analysis runs on your own device. Your text is never uploaded, never stored, and never sent to any server or AI service. It works with no internet connection. No account, no tracking, no ads. HOW TO USE IT - Select text and a word count badge appears. Click it for the full breakdown. - Or right-click a selection and choose CounterWords - Or press Alt+Shift+W - Click the toolbar icon for the whole page, or to change your settings WHO IT IS FOR Students working to an essay word limit. Writers checking pacing and repetition. Editors reviewing sentence length. Translators counting billable words. Marketers trimming a meta description to 160 characters or a post to 280. Anyone who needs a count they can actually trust. FREE FOREVER No premium tier, no trial, no upsell. Need more? "Full analysis" opens the same text in the full CounterWords web tool, with repetition analysis, sentence length distribution, transition words, filler phrases and passive voice detection. Your text is passed locally and never touches a server.