Why We're #1

Built for writers,
by writers

Every feature carefully designed to help you write more effectively and efficiently.

Real-Time Counting

Words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, lines — updated instantly as you type. Zero lag on texts of any length.

Reading & Speaking Time

Accurate estimates based on 238 wpm reading speed and 130 wpm speaking pace — so you know exactly how long your content takes.

4 Readability Formulas

Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade, Gunning Fog Index, and SMOG Index — the complete picture of your writing complexity.

Keyword Density

Every word ranked by frequency with percentage density. Filter stop words, search keywords, and export to CSV for SEO work.

N-Gram Analysis

Unigrams, bigrams, trigrams and 4-grams — identify the most frequent phrases in your text for content and SEO optimisation.

12 Social Media Limits

Live indicators for Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, SMS, Google meta description and more.

Find & Replace

Full-featured find and replace with live text highlighting, case sensitivity, whole word matching, and regex support.

Export Everything

Export as TXT, full stats report, Markdown table, JSON data, or keyword CSV. Copy stats to clipboard or print/save as PDF.

Complete Privacy

All processing runs in your browser. Your text never leaves your device. No server receives your content — ever.

Security & Privacy Architecture

Your writing is
completely private.

Unlike many online tools, InstantWordCount.com processes everything locally in your browser. We have no server that receives your text. Zero. Your words never leave your device.

No Data Storage

We never write your text to any database, log, or file. Everything runs client-side.

No Tracking

We use minimal, anonymised analytics only. No user profiling whatsoever.

No Ads Ever

We're funded by referral tools, not advertising. Your focus stays on writing.