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Character Limit Checker

Type once, check any limit: pick a platform preset and the remaining-character bar tracks every keystroke. Each platform also has its own page with the limit's fine print. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

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The fine print lives on each platform's page

A raw number is rarely the whole rule: X counts URLs as 23 characters, Instagram truncates captions long before the cap, SMS switches budgets entirely when you add an emoji, and Google's snippet cut is about display width, not a hard character count. Each dedicated page pairs the live checker with that platform's actual behavior: X/Twitter, Instagram captions, SMS segments, YouTube titles, and meta descriptions.

How characters are counted

Limits here are checked in Unicode code points — the convention most platforms document — so é is one character and most emoji count as one. The notable exception is SMS, where encoding rules change the arithmetic completely; the SMS counter implements the real GSM-7/Unicode segmentation rather than pretending 160 is always 160. Details on the methodology page.

Everything is processed locally in your browser and never transmitted or stored. See the methodology page.