A character counter is a feature that lets you know how many characters are being used in a text. It's useful to check if the character limit imposed by a platform (or a blog) is being respected, or simply to have an idea of the number of words your text contains. In this post, we explain in detail how to use this feature and we count on your help to test it!
What is a character counter?
The character counter is a very useful tool for anyone who needs to count words or text. It can be used for various purposes, such as finding out how many words a text has, or counting the characters in a document.
Online character counter
One of the simplest ways to use a character counter is to do the count online. There are several sites that offer this service, below we will list the most famous ones:
invert
The site has a very intuitive interface and is very easy to use. To use the Invertext character counter, simply access the website and click on the “Character Counter” option. Then, you must paste the text you want to analyze in the indicated area and just below the text box it will display the number of characters, words and lines.
Character counter
To use the character counter, just go to the website and paste the text into the text box. Below the text box you will have the following information:
- Characters (no spaces)
- Characters (spaces)
- Words
- Lines
4 developers
On that website link, you will see a text box where you can paste the text for review. Below the text box you will have some options for the count:
- Characters
- characters without spaces
- Words
- Spaces
- Lines
- Members
- Issues
how many letters
Go to the website and click on the “Character Counter” option. Then just paste the text into the text box and click on “Account characters”. Ready, the character count of your text will appear next to it!
character counter (PT)
Access the website and paste or write the text in the text box, next to it will be updated the count of:
- Characters
- Characters (no spaces)
- Words
- Phrases
- Paragraphs
- reading time
- speech time
o use Word character counter
To count characters in Word, just follow the steps below:
- Open your text in Word;
- Click on the “Review” tab;
- Click on the “Word count” item;
- A box will open with the following information: pages, words, characters and without spaces, paragraphs and lines.
o know the amount of characters in notepad?
Notepad does not have the option to see the amount of characters. To find out the number of characters you must use one of the options above.
count characters in google docs
To count characters in Google Docs, follow these steps:
- Open the document in Google Docs;
- Click on the “Tools” option;
- Click on “Word count”;
- A box will open the following counts: words, characters, characters excluding spaces
to count the characters of a text on the cell phone?
word counter
One of the ways to count characters on a cell phone is using the “Word Counter” application, available for Android. The app is very simple and intuitive, just open the application and paste the text in the text box, at the top will appear:
- Number of characters;
- Number of words;
- Number of phrases;
- Number of paragraphs
Note: in the free version there is no file upload option.
word count
The “Word Count” app, available for Android, is also a good option for counting characters on a cell phone.
To use the app, just open the app and click on the new text icon at the top, after that you can write your text or paste it and see the following information at the top:
- Number of characters;
- Number of words;
Note: It does not have a file upload option.
Words Counter
“Words Counter” is another app option for character counting on an Android phone. To use the app, just open the app. This app is the most complete in the list of several interesting functions, for example:
- Upload images – If you took a picture of a text, the app will recognize the writing;
- Save your text in pdf;
- Spell check;
- Text reading;
- Save text;
- Count something specific, for example how many times a letter appears in the text;
- Copy and paste
At the top of the application you will have the information about your text, you will be able to see:
- Number of letters;
- Number of words;
- Number of phrases;
- Number of paragraphs;
- Number of numbers;
- Number of symbols.
Pages (iPhone)
In the character count of a text on the iPhone, just follow the steps below:
- Abra o app Pages;
- Tap “…” at the top of the screen;
- Turn on word count;
- The number of words will be shown at the bottom of the screen, if you want to know more information or the number of characters click on the number of words
