Live word and character count, reading time, reading level, and a limit tracker, as you type.
Academic work is bounded by word counts, and most limits come with a tolerance rather than a hard cliff. A live count tells you where you stand while you are still writing, instead of after you have finished and have to cut something you were attached to.
Everything updates as you type: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, and how long the piece takes to read aloud.
A running readability estimate shows whether your writing is getting denser as you add material, which is usually what happens in the last hour before a deadline.
Set the cap your brief or form enforces and a bar fills as you write, showing exactly how many words or characters you have left, or how far over you have run. Personal statements and application boxes are far easier to write against the real number.
A quick frequency list shows the content words you lean on most, which catches a term you have repeated too often before a marker does.
Counting happens locally on your device. Nothing you paste is uploaded or stored.
This counter includes everything you paste. Institutions differ on whether headings, in-text citations, footnotes and the reference list count toward your limit, so check the brief and remove those parts before counting if yours excludes them.
Around four pages double spaced, or two single spaced, in a standard 12-point serif with normal margins. Fonts and spacing move that a lot, which is exactly why most departments set a word count instead of a page count.
Roughly seven to eight minutes at a normal speaking pace, which is a useful check when you are writing a talk to a time limit.
Set your cap in the limit tracker and it counts down as you type, so you write toward the number rather than cutting a paragraph you were attached to after the fact. It tracks a character limit too, for forms that count characters.
Yes, free and unlimited, with no account needed.