About WordCountly
WordCountly is a free set of word and character counting tools built around one idea: checking a limit should be instant, accurate, and private. Everything on this site — the counting, the limit meters, the exports — runs locally in your browser. Your text is never uploaded, logged, or stored on a server.
Who is behind this site?
WordCountly is built and maintained by an independent web developer — a one-person project, not a company. There is no growth team and no plan to add accounts or paywalls — the site exists because checking a character limit should not require signing up for anything. Questions, corrections, and suggestions all land directly with the person who ships the fixes, via the contact page.
How we verify platform limits
Character limits are the core data of this site, and platforms change them without announcements. Every limit we publish goes through the same process:
- Primary sources first. Each limit is checked against the platform's official documentation or help center where one exists.
- Manual testing. Where documentation is vague or missing (display truncation points like Instagram's “… more” cutoff), we test directly in the real apps and mark those values as approximate with a “~”.
- Dated freshness. Every limit table on the site carries a “verified as of” date, so you always know when a number was last confirmed.
- Reader reports. If a platform moves a limit before our next review, readers usually spot it first. Reports through the contact page are checked and corrected within days.
How the counting works
Words are counted the same way Microsoft Word and Google Docs count them — any run of characters separated by spaces or line breaks. Characters include everything: letters, spaces, punctuation, and emoji, because that is how the platforms themselves count. Reading time assumes 225 words per minute and speaking time 130, both standard industry estimates.
Privacy, in one paragraph
The text you type stays on your device. Counting happens in your browser's memory; the optional “Recently Measured” history is saved only in your own browser's local storage and never transmitted. The full details are in our privacy policy.