The story behind WordCountPro and why we built it.
WordCountPro is a free online word counter and writing analysis tool built for anyone who works with text — students, bloggers, journalists, copywriters, novelists, academics, and professionals of all kinds. It gives you an instant breakdown of word count, character count, sentence count, reading time, speaking time, reading level, keyword density, and more, with no sign up, no limits, and no cost.
Every calculation happens directly in your browser. Nothing you type is ever sent to our servers. Your writing stays completely private.
WordCountPro is an independently developed project created as a faster, cleaner alternative to word counters that hide basic features behind accounts or subscriptions. The aim is straightforward: make useful writing measurements available immediately and explain how they are calculated.
Writers working to a deadline shouldn't have to fight their tools. Students checking an essay against a word limit shouldn't need to create an account, and bloggers estimating reading time shouldn't have to work through obstructive sign-up prompts before seeing the result.
WordCountPro is designed to do exactly what it says, the moment you need it, for free.
Students use it to check essay and assignment word counts against their institution's requirements, using the target word count progress bar to track their writing in real time.
Bloggers and content creators use it to estimate reading time before publishing, check keyword density, and ensure their posts are the right length for their audience.
Professionals — from copywriters to lawyers, from journalists to HR managers — use it to check document length, assess readability, and estimate speaking time for presentations.
Writers and novelists use it to track daily word count goals, check chapter lengths, and analyse the readability of their prose.
Feedback is reviewed directly. If you have found a bug, want to question a calculation, or have a useful feature suggestion, use the contact page to get in touch.