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Count words
Paste or type, and the word count updates live, along with characters, sentences, paragraphs and how long the text takes to read. Everything runs on this device.
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Save and continue on the desktop
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- Keep writing in Notes — it counts words and characters as you type
- Save to Files when you continue on the desktop
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After you download, continue on the desktop for Files or the full app.
What Word Counter can do
Essays, articles and talks
An essay with a floor, an article with a ceiling, a talk that has to fit ten minutes. Words, sentences, paragraphs and reading time update while you edit, so you stop guessing at the end.
Counts languages that do not use spaces
Splitting on spaces reports a whole Chinese or Japanese paragraph as one word. This uses the browser’s own word segmentation, so those languages are counted word by word, the way a dictionary splits them.
Keep writing on the desktop
Open the free desktop and the text continues in Notes, which shows the same word count and reading time beside the editor. Notes stay on your device, with no account and no sync you did not ask for.
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Questions
How is reading time calculated?
At 200 words per minute, the common average for silent reading, rounded to whole minutes and never under one. Reading aloud is slower (roughly 130–150), so for a talk treat it as a floor.
What counts as a word?
Anything the browser segments as a word, so hyphenated forms count once and punctuation is not counted. For Chinese, Japanese and Thai this segments properly instead of counting a whole paragraph as one word.
Does it count words in a document?
Not .docx or .pdf. Paste their text in. A .txt, .md or .srt file dropped anywhere on the page lands in the box, up to 2 MB.