How to use Social character counter
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Choose platforms
Tap the chips for X, Instagram, LinkedIn, SMS or any other network you're posting to; your choice is remembered.
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Write the post
Type or paste into the editor. Each platform's ring fills up and its remaining count drops as you write.
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Trim what's highlighted
Anything over the selected platform's limit is underlined in red; click another platform in the list to preview it instead.
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Copy it
Use Copy to put the final text on your clipboard, then paste it into the app.
Limits and Pro
No sign-up and no length cap: all 15 platform limits are checked at once, and drafts of 60,000+ characters (a full Facebook post) are counted instantly.
Pro hides the ads on this page; counting itself has nothing to unlock. See Pro
About Social character counter
This counter answers the question every social media manager asks before hitting publish: will it fit, and where will it get cut off? Pick the networks you post to and each one gets its own progress ring and remaining count while you type.
X is measured with the same weighted rules X applies: every link counts as 23 characters whatever its real length, each emoji and each Chinese, Japanese or Korean character counts as two, and accented letters are normalised first. Text past the limit is highlighted in the editor so you can see exactly which words to trim.
For SMS the tool works out the encoding. Plain GSM-7 text fits 160 characters in one message and 153 per part after that; one curly quote or emoji switches the whole message to UCS-2, where a part holds 70 or 67. The characters responsible are marked and common look-alikes can be swapped for plain ones in one click.
Google titles and meta descriptions are measured in pixels with Arial at Google's sizes, because search results truncate by width, not by character count. The preview card shows the post as a feed card, a YouTube title, a search result or a text bubble, including roughly where “…more” folds it.
It cannot know your account type, so X Premium's longer posts and each app's future rule changes are not reflected automatically.
Privacy
Everything you type is counted by JavaScript running in this tab; no request carrying your text is ever made. Your draft, the platforms you picked and the one you were previewing are saved in this browser's local storage so they survive a refresh, and pressing Clear empties the draft.
Features
X's weighted length
Links fixed at 23, emoji and CJK at 2, Unicode normalised first — matching how X validates a post.
SMS parts and encoding
GSM-7 vs UCS-2, € and brackets counted as two, parts split at 153 or 67 without breaking a character.
Pixel-width search snippets
Title tags and meta descriptions measured against Google's ≈600 px and ≈920 px truncation.
Feed previews
See where Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube fold your text behind “…more”.