TextLen is a free online word count tool, mainly intended for writing and social media posting scenarios. Users only need to enter or paste text into the text box, and the statistics are displayed in real time.
Main capabilities:
- Character count: both half-width and full-width characters count as one character, line breaks also count as one character, and variant characters count as two characters.
- Character count excluding line breaks: counts characters after excluding line break characters.
- Character count excluding spaces: counts characters after excluding line breaks, tabs, and half-width/full-width spaces.
- Byte count by character encoding: displays the byte count under encodings such as Shift-JIS, UTF-8, JIS, and UTF-16, with line breaks counted as 2 bytes.
- Line count: displays the total number of lines in the text.
- Word count: counts the number of words separated by spaces, suitable for languages such as English.
- Estimated reading time: displays the estimated reading time for the entered text.
- Manuscript paper conversion: converts the entered character count into manuscript paper pages (400 characters per page).
- Variant characters: variant characters count as two characters, conforming to social platform character limit specifications.
How to use: Enter or paste text into the text box on the page, and the statistics update in real time. To maintain optimal performance, it is recommended that a single processing run not exceed 1 million characters. Entered content is not sent to a server, so you can use it with peace of mind.
Use cases:
- For writing, to control the length of articles and manuscripts.
- When posting on social media, to check whether platform limits are exceeded. The tool provides word limit reminders for major social platforms: Twitter 280 characters; Instagram caption 4,000 characters, comments 2,200 characters; Facebook posts 63,206 characters, comments 8,000 characters; LinkedIn posts 3,000 characters, comments 1,250 characters; TikTok video descriptions 2,200 characters, comments 1,000 characters; Line messages 10,000 characters; Weibo 2,000 characters. A warning is displayed when the corresponding platform limit is exceeded.
- Multilingual support: supports text in multiple languages such as Japanese, English, and Chinese.
AI features: AI features can be used to quickly expand or shorten sentences, making it easy to adjust text length.
Excel and Word integration tips: The tool provides methods for counting characters in Excel and Word. In Excel: use the function =LEN(cell) to count the characters in a specific cell; total character count of multiple cells: =SUM(LEN(range)); character count excluding spaces: =LEN(SUBSTITUTE(cell, " ", "")). In Word: you can view the character count in the status bar at the bottom of the screen; the [Review] tab > [Word Count] displays detailed statistics; macros can be used for advanced character count analysis. Combining this with the site's tool allows more efficient management of character counts.