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FastWordCount
word count, character count, sentences, paragraphs
12 followers
word count, character count, sentences, paragraphs
12 followers
Free word counter and character counter with spaces or without. Real-time counting, no limits, no signup. Perfect for students, writers, and developers.
FastWordCount is an online word counter and character counter that updates in real time as you type or paste. Whether you're writing a blog post, an essay, a tweet, a meta description or a novel chapter — knowing your exact word count and character count helps you hit your target every time.
Everything runs in your browser. Your text is never uploaded to any server, never logged, and never stored anywhere other than your own device.
What FastWordCount measures
Word count — total words, updated live as you type
Character count — total characters including spaces
Character count without spaces — useful for platform limits and translation estimates
Sentence count — number of sentences detected in your text
Paragraph count — number of paragraphs separated by blank lines
Reading time — estimated minutes to read at average adult reading speed (238 wpm)
Word frequency — top words ranked by how often they appear, with a visual density bar
Character density — ratio of non-space characters to total characters
It’s simple and easy to use, I like it.
I have two questions.
・Is the red circle in the upper right corner a color vision support feature?
・I entered the clearly incorrect sentence “I Won’t likEs she” into the grammar checker, but it didn’t flag any issues. English isn’t my first language.is this the expected behavior?
@hasui0310 The red/pink circle is an accent color toggle — clicking it switches the whole interface between cyan and rose. Not a color vision feature, just a theme preference. Good question though, worth making the tooltip clearer.
On the grammar checker — yes, that's expected behavior and an honest limitation. The checker catches mechanical errors (double spaces, repeated words, missing capitals after periods, common typos like "recieve") but it doesn't understand English grammar or sentence structure. "I Won't likEs she" has no mechanical errors — the capitalization on "likEs" should actually be caught though, that's a bug worth fixing.
A proper grammar checker that catches subject-verb agreement, incorrect pronouns and tense errors needs an AI/NLP engine. The current version is rule-based only, which keeps it fast and private (nothing leaves your browser) but means it misses real grammar mistakes. It's clearly labeled as detecting "common typos and punctuation mistakes" but I'll make that limitation more explicit on the page so it's not misleading.
@hasui0310 The red/pink circle is an accent color toggle — clicking it switches the whole interface between cyan and rose. Not a color vision feature, just a theme preference. Good question though, worth making the tooltip clearer.
On the grammar checker. The checker catches mechanical errors (double spaces, repeated words, missing capitals after periods, common typos like "recieve") but it doesn't understand English grammar or sentence structure. "I Won't likEs she" has no mechanical errors — the capitalization on "likEs" should actually be caught though, that's a bug worth fixing.
A proper grammar checker that catches subject-verb agreement, incorrect pronouns and tense errors needs an AI/NLP engine. The current version is rule-based only, which keeps it fast and private (nothing leaves your browser) but means it misses real grammar mistakes. It's clearly labeled as detecting "common typos and punctuation mistakes" but I'll make that limitation more explicit on the page so it's not misleading.
“I Won’t likEs she” this is fixed now just refresh the page. thanks for your feedbacks
Nice and clean tool. One thing that would help me a lot: a small reading time estimate next to the word count, maybe based on average words per minute. That would make it even more useful for writers drafting blog posts without needing a separate tool.
@abdulsamet34633 Reading time is actually already on the main word counter — updates live as you type. Just added it to the grammar checker and tone checker too based on your suggestion, good call.
Finally a word counter that just works without nagging me to sign up or hit a limit. I threw a long doc at it and the real-time count never hiccuped, which is more than I can say for the one I was using before.
@sezerhalezcsyv That's exactly the bar it was built to clear. No accounts, no limits, no friction — just paste and count. Glad it held up on a long doc too.
Would love to see a reading time estimate added alongside the word count, like "X min read" for prose or "X min speaking" for transcripts. Would be super handy for writers prepping blog posts or students timing presentations.
@smeyye289106 Reading time is already there — it's one of the stat cards above the editor, updates live as you type. Easy to miss on first glance.
Speaking time is a great addition though — different calculation from reading time (around 130 words per minute for average speech vs 238 for reading). Adding it to the build list.
Love how clean this is, no signup friction is a huge plus. One thing that would make it perfect for me as a writer: a session history sidebar that tracks each count I run with timestamps, so I can revisit earlier drafts without retyping. Keep up the great work.
@erafettinanmmk Glad the simplicity is landing. The session history idea is interesting — though since nothing leaves your browser, any history would live in localStorage only, which means it clears if you wipe your cache. Worth building with that caveat clearly stated. Adding it to the list.
A dark mode toggle would be a nice addition for those late-night writing sessions. Also, if you could add a simple readability score alongside the word count, it would make this way more useful for students working on essays.
@haruntaghyo Dark mode is already there — hit the moon icon in the top-right corner. It also remembers your preference so it sticks on return visits.
Readability score is a great call though. Something like Flesch-Kincaid would fit naturally alongside the existing stats. Adding it to the build list.