Text Counter
Text Counter, a small reckoner that computes in your browser and stores nothing. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here: go on, put something in it.
Forged into a knife, this tool ages with use: the blades you reach for wear soft, entries you tend keep their bloom, and the years travel with the file through every reforge.
The form says 500 characters maximum, the editor says 800 words, and you have written some unknowable amount of both. The Text Counter takes your text and tells you what it adds up to — the counts you need before you submit, in the moment you paste it. Then it forgets everything, which is more than can be said for most places you paste text these days.
Standing facts
- One HTML file. Opens in any modern browser, on any operating system.
- No account. No login, no sign-up, no e-mail wall.
- No cloud. Nothing leaves your browser: no server, no telemetry, no analytics.
- Yours forever. The file keeps working whether or not Offline.Ltd does.
- Ages with use. Entries you tend keep their bloom; the years travel with the file through every reforge.
In ten years
Text Counter computes; it doesn't hoard. Open the file in 2036 and it will do the same arithmetic it does today, because the arithmetic is written into the file and nothing about it needs a server to agree.
If Offline.Ltd closes tomorrow, nothing on your machine notices. That isn't a marketing promise; it's simply what a file is.
Getting your data out
There is nothing locked in to get out: copy the numbers, or keep the file. Either way you owe no one a request form. No export queue, no "we'll e-mail you a link within 48 hours", no format that only one vendor can read.
Copy the file to a USB stick, a NAS, a folder your devices already sync. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, online or off, because a browser is the only thing it ever needed.
Who else sees this
Nobody. Text Counter works out its answer in your browser and forgets it the moment you close the tab: there is no store to breach, because nothing is stored. There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics, and no code in the file that opens a network connection, pull the cable and watch it carry on working. How privacy works across the Reckoners tools →
Questions people ask
Is it safe to paste unpublished writing into an online word counter?
Into most, who knows — into this one, yes. It runs offline in your browser inside a single HTML file, counts on the spot, and stores nothing. Your draft never leaves the page, let alone the building.
How does the Text Counter work?
Paste or type your text and the counts appear. No upload, no processing screen — the arithmetic happens right there in the page. Try the live demo above; it is the real tool.
Who needs a text counter?
Students with word limits, writers with editors, applicants with character-capped forms, and anyone who has ever been told to say it in exactly so many words.
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