A while back, I needed to count the number of letters that a piece of text in an email template had (to avoid passing any character limits). Unfortunately, I could not think of a quick way to do so on my MacBook and me therefore turned to the Internet.

There were a couple of tools out there, but none of them met my standards and since I am a web designer I thought: why not do it myself and help others along the way? And... here is the result, hope it helps out!

What is this?

Character Count Online is a free online character and word-counting tool.

All results are immediately shown, and it is ridiculously easy to use and of course, the service is completely free.

How is it used?

You can copy and paste your text with the characters to count in the text area above, or type your characters and words into the text area. The counter will be updated instantly, displaying the number of characters, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and whitespace in your text, and the keyword density (which you can configure from the options menu) will also be displayed.