Text Tools
Use simple browser-based text utilities for writers and editors, including a live word counter for words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs as you type.
Overview
The text tools cover quick, browser-local utilities for everyday writing tasks. The word counter measures words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs from any pasted or typed text and updates the totals as you type.
When to use the word counter
Use the word counter when you need to hit a length target for an essay, email, abstract, or social post, or when you want to confirm a draft fits inside a character budget such as a meta description, ad headline, or platform-specific limit. The counter updates as you type and exposes both character-with-spaces and character-without-spaces totals, plus heuristic sentence and paragraph counts so you can see structural balance at a glance.
It is also useful as a quick check while editing: if a paragraph is suddenly twice as long as the others, the counter is a fast way to confirm whether the imbalance is real or just a perceptual one. Pair it with the sentence count when a draft starts reading run-on, since the sentence-per-paragraph ratio is a quick signal.
How counts are derived
Words are counted as whitespace-separated tokens after trimming leading and trailing spaces, which matches the convention most word processors use. Hyphenated phrases like "browser-local" count as a single word, so if you intend them to count as two, separate them with a space. Sentence counts use punctuation-boundary heuristics like periods, exclamation marks, and question marks. They may differ from editor-specific definitions when a draft uses unusual abbreviations or initialisms.
Paragraphs are split on blank-line boundaries, so a draft that uses single line breaks instead of empty lines between paragraphs will count as one large paragraph. Character counts come in two flavors: including whitespace, which matches how most platforms define a character budget, and excluding whitespace, which is closer to a "typed letters" count for short-form copy.
Privacy and limits
Counts run locally in your browser and the text you paste is not sent to analytics, advertising, or any Cleartali server. The counter handles drafts of typical article and document length comfortably. Pasted books or very large documents may make the browser pause briefly while counts are recomputed, since the work is synchronous. If you need to count a multi-megabyte corpus, use a desktop tool or a script. The word counter is tuned for everyday writing tasks, not corpus analysis. Treat any count as a quick visual aid rather than a forensic measure, and remember that different platforms may count slightly differently depending on their tokenization rules.