Yes, 100% free with no hidden costs, no premium tier, and no account required. Every single feature — readability scores, n-gram analysis, exports — is free forever.
Absolutely. All analysis runs locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your text is never sent to our servers. This is a technical reality, not just a promise — we have no server infrastructure capable of receiving your content.
We split text on whitespace after normalising punctuation. Hyphenated words (e.g. 'well-known') count as one word. Contractions (e.g. 'don't') count as one word. URLs count as one word. Numbers and alphanumeric strings count as words.
The Flesch Reading Ease formula rates text on a 0–100 scale. Higher is easier to read. Scores above 70 are easy (suitable for most readers); 50–70 is standard; below 30 is very difficult, suitable for academic or technical audiences.
N-grams are sequences of N consecutive words. Unigrams are single words, bigrams are 2-word phrases, trigrams are 3-word phrases. They're valuable for SEO (identifying repeated phrases) and content analysis.
There is no practical word limit. The tool handles texts up to several hundred thousand words. Full-length novels process comfortably on modern devices.
Yes. InstantWordCount.com is fully responsive and works on smartphones and tablets, including Chrome, Safari, and Firefox for mobile.
Yes. We auto-save your last 15 sessions locally in your browser using localStorage. These are accessible in the History tab. The data is stored on your device only — we cannot access it.
You can export as plain TXT, a formatted statistics report, Markdown table, JSON data, or keyword CSV. You can also copy stats to clipboard or print/save as PDF directly from the browser.
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