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Count words, characters, sentences and paragraphs as you type, in English, Hindi or any other language, with estimated reading and speaking time. A limits panel shows how your text fits an Instagram caption, an X post, a LinkedIn post, a YouTube title and an SMS. Your text stays in your browser.
How to use this tool
- Paste or type your text into the box.
- Counts update immediately as you type.
- Check the Character limits panel to see how many characters you have left on each platform, and how many SMS the text would take.
- Use the case buttons to convert the text, or copy it back once you are done.
Formula
Reading time = words ÷ 238 · Speaking time = words ÷ 140
- 238
- average adult silent reading speed in words per minute
- 140
- typical speaking pace in words per minute
Worked example
An article of 1,200 words.
- Reading time1,200 ÷ 238 ≈ 5.0 minutes
- Speaking time1,200 ÷ 140 ≈ 8.6 minutes
About five minutes to read silently, or roughly nine minutes to read aloud.
Where character limits matter
Social media and messaging apps enforce limits in characters, counting spaces, while academic abstracts and application forms usually give a word count instead. Both counts are shown, with and without spaces, because form instructions differ on which they mean.
The limits panel uses each platform's published maximum. Google does not enforce a length for titles or descriptions; it trims them on screen at roughly 60 and 155 to 160 characters, so those two are guides rather than hard limits.
- X (Twitter) post: 280 characters on a free account, with every link counted as 23
- Instagram caption: 2,200 characters, but only about the first 125 show before “more”
- LinkedIn post: 3,000 characters, with about 210 shown before “see more”
- YouTube: 100 characters for a title and 5,000 for a description
Why Hindi SMS are shorter
An SMS in plain English letters fits 160 characters. As soon as a message contains Hindi, any other Indian script or an emoji, the phone switches to Unicode and one SMS holds only 70 characters. Longer messages are split into parts of 153 plain characters or 67 Unicode characters, and bulk SMS services charge per part.
A few symbols such as €, [ ] and ~ take two places even in a plain-text SMS. The SMS line in the limits panel accounts for all of this and shows how many parts your message needs.
How reading time is estimated
Reading time uses 238 words per minute, which is close to the average silent reading speed for adults in research on non-fiction prose. Speaking time uses 140 words per minute, a typical presentation pace.
Both are averages. Technical material with formulas or unfamiliar terms reads more slowly, and a rehearsed speaker may run faster.
What counts as a word
A word here is a run of letters or digits, allowing internal apostrophes and hyphens, so 'don't' and 'well-known' each count as one. Vowel signs (matras), the anusvara and other marks stay part of their word, so 'हिंदी' counts as one word, not several. Sentences are counted at full stops, question marks, exclamation marks and the Devanagari danda (।).
Things to keep in mind
- Emoji and other characters outside the basic range are counted as single characters.
- Text is never uploaded, saved or shared; it exists only in your browser tab.
Frequently asked questions
Does the character count include spaces?
Both figures are shown. Check whether the form you are filling counts spaces, as the two numbers can differ considerably.
Can I count words in Hindi?
Yes. Paste Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi or text in any other script and the words, characters and sentences are counted the same way as English. Sentences ending in a danda (।) are recognised.
What is the Instagram caption character limit?
2,200 characters including spaces, emoji and hashtags. Only about the first 125 characters show before the caption is cut off with “more”, so put the important part first.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. Counting happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. The text is not transmitted to any server, saved, or shared, which is why the tool works even if you go offline after the page loads.
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