Counting Characters - #1 Letter & Word Count icon

Counting Characters - #1 Letter & Word Count

by Mohit Harjai

v1.1.8 Updated Aug 25, 2025 270KiB
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★ 3.75
36 reviews
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Description

Counting Characters is a free character count online extension that gives you instant results(total characters, total characters without spaces, total white spaces and total words) of given text or selected text. (www.countingcharacters.com) New: Website Word Count - With our new feature, you can count the total words of the web page on one click. Why should you choose this extension(Counting Characters)? # This extension is free to use. # Also work in offline. # It gives you real-time results of given text. # Count characters and words by selecting text from the context(right-click) menu. # Case Converter # UPPERCASE Converter # Lowercase Converter # Titlecase Converter # Our extension is best for the writers and bloggers.
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Reviews (8 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2023-11-23
Vinayak Sutar

Its DEAD and mostly NOT WORKING....

★☆☆☆☆2020-10-20
Kelsey Braford

limited to 1000 characters - so basically useless

★☆☆☆☆2019-06-24
Алексей Вербин

Maximum limit to count is 1000 and very slow work

★★☆☆☆2024-09-07
Alp Dindar

this extension no longer works

★★☆☆☆2021-10-25
Pat MySecret

Yet another context menu accessed counter. This one requires a right click, going to the tab, and then a left click. Cumbersome.. There are others that do it easier. It has the additional feature of counting white spaces.

★★★☆☆2019-01-29
Arkylie (Kilyle)

Picks up double-dashes as "words," artificially inflating word count (though I'm having trouble finding an extension that doesn't fail this crucial test!). Can count the whole page or what you paste into its box, but won't just count the words in a highlighted section (ADD THIS CAPABILITY, srsly). Visually a bit, um, amateurish, in terms of the colored buttons below the interface; kinda an eyesore, reminds me of bad website design. Has a 1000-char limit, and if it had been up front about that limitation then I would likely not have installed it in the first place -- always indicate whether basic functionality is behind a paywall, so users can make informed decisions about whether to install your software!

★★★☆☆2018-06-09
Grzegorz Browarski

I really need to this extension doesn't loose entered text while I accidentally click somewhere on website and close the extension windows :( Please fix it!

★★★☆☆2018-02-26
Sam O'Hanlon-Videau

Thanks for the reply. Still kind of sketched out by the new permissions. Maybe make that something that can be enabled/disabled by the user? _______ Update: This WAS a super awesome tool, until it asked for permission to view my browsing history. There is no good reason for a word counter to access my browsing history. It's a bummer, but I will not be using this anymore. _______ I teach online. My students have weekly discussion posts that need to be above a certain word count. I've been eyeballing post length and copy+pasting ones that "look short" into Word for years. (I grade ~400 discussion posts per week.) THIS IS SO MUCH EASIER!! I am really kicking myself for not searching for a word count extension sooner.

Permissions (5)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu notifications Can show desktop notifications storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 1.1.8
Updated Aug 25, 2025
Size 270KiB
First Seen Mar 28, 2026