Social Media Character Counter - Count Characters for All Platforms Free

About Character Counter

Our free Social Media Character Counter is the only counter that knows the real character limits across every platform in 2026—Twitter/X (280), Instagram caption (2,200), Facebook post (63,206), LinkedIn post (3,000), TikTok caption (2,200), YouTube title (100), YouTube description (5,000), Pinterest description (500), and Reddit post (40,000). It shows live count, remaining characters, and visual progress bar, plus word count, sentence count, and paragraph count for deeper readability analysis. No signup, no login, nothing to install. Switch platforms from a dropdown and the counter recalculates instantly, so you never accidentally hit a truncation point when it matters most.

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• Live character count updates as you type with no lag or rate-limiting
• Covers 9 major social platforms with the correct 2026 character limits built in
• Colour-coded status (green, yellow, red) so you know at a glance when you’re over the line
• Counts words, sentences, paragraphs, and reading time for deeper copy analysis
• No signup, no ads inside the tool, no data collected from your drafts
• Mobile-friendly design—count characters on the go right from your phone

Character Counter is perfect for these scenarios:

• Social media managers writing posts that will run across Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram simultaneously
• Ad copywriters checking Facebook ad headline and description limits before submission
• Students writing social-media assignments with explicit character-count requirements
• Content repurposers shrinking a blog post intro down to a 280-character tweet thread hook
• Email marketers crafting subject lines that stay inside the 60-character mobile inbox preview
• SEO specialists optimising meta titles (60 char) and meta descriptions (160 char) before pushing to CMS

• Platform dropdown with all 9 major social networks preloaded with the correct 2026 limits
• Real-time visual progress bar that shifts from green to yellow to red as you approach the limit
• Word count and paragraph count for readability scoring
• Character count both with and without spaces, useful for different platform APIs
• Estimated reading time (based on 200 WPM) for blog-adjacent use cases
• Works perfectly with our Twitter Character Counter for X-specific URL weighting

Get the most out of Character Counter with these tips:

• For Twitter/X, use our dedicated Twitter Character Counter instead—it handles URL weighting (links count as 23)
• Keep Instagram captions under 125 characters if you want the full text to show without the ‘more’ tap
• LinkedIn posts under 140 characters see the highest engagement per algorithm data
• Always leave a buffer of 10-20 characters when writing at the limit—it gives you room for edits
• Count meta descriptions (160) and SEO titles (60) here before pasting into your CMS to avoid truncation