TextStatistics

Regardless of whether you are a professional writer or an avid Twitter user, one of the things that you need to account for is word count. While the first one might want to create a novel that is easy to read, for the latter it is all about conveying a message in a limited space.

TextStatistics is a small application that enables you to immediately find out the word count along with other important statistics in text files on your computer.

As you would expect from a tiny app, the application is quick and you should not encounter any special events during the process. The UI consists of a main tab where you can view the list of the texts you are trying to get statistics for and a few buttons that are relevant to the program's role.

You can start looking for texts to get the word or character count for in the upper section of the interface. It is necessary to mention that you need to browse through directories and load the text files, as the program does not support the drag and drop function. Some average users could argue that this feature could be useful when writing Tweets or writing an essay for instance.

The primary role of the app is to help you get details about the character, lines or word count in a given text. You can learn the details by loading the files into the app and then access the Get Statistics function to generate the results. The results usually include the number of lines, words and characters with or without the spaces.

The program allows you to generate statistics for the files in a single folder or from multiple directories. However, you should keep in mind that the application only works with text files and that you can export the results to a CSV format. It could be useful if the app could support other types of documents as well.

TextStatistics does a good job of generating statistics on text files relatively fast. On the other hand, its applicability for professional writers or bloggers is limited, as it does not allow you to see the data while you are working.