Social Media Character Counter

Up to 2,200 characters, according to Instagram’s documentation, with 5 hashtags at most according to its help center. The bio stops at 150 characters. The tool counts on the safe side: an emoji counts as two.

Up to 3,000 characters, according to LinkedIn’s help center, which suggests writing an article beyond that. For the profile headline and comments, LinkedIn publishes no number, so the tool counts them without making up a limit.

A video caption is 2,200 characters at most, counted in UTF-16 units (an emoji is often two), according to TikTok’s documentation. The bio stops at 80 characters, according to its help center.

The title is 100 characters at most. The description is 5,000 bytes at most according to YouTube’s documentation: a plain letter is one byte, “é” is two, an emoji four. YouTube also refuses “<” and “>” in both. Tags fit in 500 characters, quotes and commas included.

Because each network counts its own way. Bluesky counts what the eye sees (an emoji, even a combined one, is one). TikTok counts the text’s computer units (an emoji is often two). YouTube counts the description’s bytes. When a network does not say how it counts, the tool uses the higher count, so it never tells you a text fits when it does not.

Yes: the first number counts characters including spaces, like the networks do. The “Without spaces” number removes them, line breaks included.

Because the network does not publish one. The numbers going around for LinkedIn headlines, LinkedIn comments, Facebook posts or Google updates come from third-party sites, not from the networks themselves: instead of copying one, the tool counts your text and says so.

No. Everything is counted in your browser; the text never leaves your device and is not stored anywhere.