utilime

Small tools that finish the job.

Text

Count it, recase it, or invent some to fill a layout.

About these tools

Text tools are the ones people reach for mid-sentence, which is the whole design constraint. You are part-way through writing something, you need to know whether it fits, and any interruption longer than the thought itself defeats the purpose. So these redraw on every keystroke and none of them has a button that says Go.

The hard part is not the counting. It is that a character is three different quantities and the difference only shows up on the text that matters. An emoji family is one thing on screen, five code points, and eighteen bytes in a database column. A pasted Windows document carries a carriage return on every line that most counters quietly add to the total. These name which number they are giving you.

Nothing you paste is uploaded, which for a draft of something unpublished is the only sensible arrangement.