Line Counter
Line Counter. Free, no signup, no watermark. Runs in your browser — your file never leaves your device.
How to line counter
- Add your input — Paste or type into the box above. There is no length limit, because the work happens on your own machine rather than in a request to a server.
- Adjust the options — Where the tool offers settings, change them and the output updates immediately — there is nothing to submit.
- Copy the result — Use the copy button, or select the output and copy it by hand. Nothing is stored once you leave the page.
What this tool does
To use the line counter, paste or type your text into the box above. Counts update as you type, with no button to press, and the text is never transmitted. The tool is free, needs no account, applies no watermark, and has no daily limit.
What this tool does
Text tools are the cheapest thing on the internet to build and the easiest to get subtly wrong. This one follows the same counting and casing rules as the software you are likely being measured against, and it processes your text locally — which matters when the text is unpublished work, under embargo, or simply not yours to paste into someone else's server.
Why nothing is uploaded
This tool runs entirely on your own device. Your file is read into memory by JavaScript on this page, processed there, and handed back to you as a download. It is never transmitted to us, which means there is nothing on our side to store, log, leak or forget to delete.
You can verify that yourself: load this page, disconnect from the internet, and the tool still works. That is a different claim from a privacy policy promising prompt deletion, and it is the reason this site exists.
Where the counts come from
Words are split on runs of whitespace, which is the rule Microsoft Word and Google Docs both apply. A hyphenated compound such as “well-known” counts as one word; “well known” counts as two. Numbers count as words, and a line of punctuation on its own does not.
Sentence counting is harder than it looks, because a full stop does not reliably end a sentence — “Dr. Smith” and “3.5%” each contain one without finishing anything. The counter treats a terminator followed by whitespace or the end of the text as a boundary, which handles ordinary prose well and drifts a little on text dense with abbreviations.
Character counts matter more than word counts in several common places. Meta descriptions are truncated at roughly 155 characters, page titles at around 60, and application forms frequently impose hard character limits that include spaces. Both totals are shown for that reason.
What it costs
Nothing. There is no account, no email capture, no free-trial countdown, no watermark on the output and no daily limit. The site is funded by advertising, which sits below the tool and never between an input and its result.
Works offline
Because everything runs locally, this tool keeps working once the page has loaded even if your connection drops. That is worth knowing on a train, on conference WiFi, or anywhere the network is unreliable — and it is the clearest demonstration that your file really is not going anywhere.