All tools
16 free tools for counting, analysing and cleaning up text. Every one runs in your browser — nothing you paste is uploaded, and none of them need an account.
Counters
Live counts for every unit of text.
Analysis
Understand how your writing reads.
Text utilities
Clean, convert and compare text.
Calculators
Turn words into pages and minutes.
Start in the workspace instead
Most of these tools are also panels in the main editor, where they run together on the same document and your draft is saved to your device as you type.
Open the writing workspaceFrom the blog
How to Increase Word Count Without Adding Fluff
Eight ways to add genuine substance when an essay or article is short, and the padding tactics that markers and editors spot immediately.
July 15, 2026
How Long Should a Meta Description Be?
Around 150 to 160 characters, and Google truncates by pixel width rather than character count. Here are the working limits for titles and descriptions, and what to do with them.
July 1, 2026
How to Count Words in Google Docs, Word and Pages
The keyboard shortcut and menu path for word count in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Apple Pages and a browser — plus why the three sometimes disagree.
June 17, 2026