Paste your text or start typing — words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time are counted live. Everything runs in your browser, nothing is transmitted.
The fastest way to count words is an online counter: paste your text and the number of words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences and paragraphs appears instantly. Forge12's tool runs 100% in the browser — your text never leaves your device — and also estimates the reading time (about 200 words/minute).
Whether it's a cover letter, an essay, a meta description, a tweet or an SEO text: many formats have hard word or character limits. A live counter instantly shows whether you're over or under — without detouring through a word processor.
Characters with and without spaces aren't the same: meta descriptions and many forms count including spaces, some rules without. You see both values at the same time here.
No. The tool computes entirely in your browser (client-side). Your text is neither sent to a server nor stored.
A word is a string separated by a space, line break or tab. Multiple consecutive spaces are not counted twice.
'Characters' counts all characters including spaces and line breaks. 'Characters without spaces' omits any whitespace — relevant because some rules mean one and some the other.
As a rough guide at around 200 words per minute (average silent reading speed). The actual time depends on the type of text and the reader.
Yes. Sentences are estimated from sentence-ending punctuation (. ! ?), paragraphs from blank lines. Both update live as you type.