Utilities
Utilities
Character Counter
Live character count with academic and journal limit comparisons, including spaces, excluding spaces, and word counts.
Input
Your text
Paste anything, abstract, social post, meta tag
Output
Counts
Updated as you type
- Characters
- 0
- No spaces
- 0
- Words
- 0
- Avg word length
- 0
How you compare against common limits
Twitter / X post
0 / 280
Bluesky post
0 / 300
LinkedIn post
0 / 3000
Title tag (SEO)
0 / 60
Meta description
0 / 160
Journal title (typical)
0 / 250
Grant aims statement
0 / 3500
Paper short abstract
0 / 1500
When character limits matter for academics
Many journals impose hard character limits on titles, abstracts, and significance statements. Some grant agencies, including NIH and NSF, count characters (with spaces) for portions of the Specific Aims and Project Summary pages. This tool gives you a live comparison against those limits so you can edit until the bar turns green.
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