Character Counter

The longer the text you have to read, the more chances to get bored, especially if content mostly beats around the bush. Luckily, some services like social networks can be fitted with character limitations for more efficiency. In case your string needs to meet a specific length limit, you can easily check it with the help of Character Counter.

The application comes in an incredibly lightweight package, and doesn’t even require installation in order to function. As such, you can keep it stored on a thumb drive to have it at hand, regardless of the computer you’re working on. Don’t worry about the health status of the target PC, because registry entries are not affected in the process.

A compact window shows up on launch, with classic elements used in the design, but keeping things simple to make it easy for individuals of all levels of experience to get the hang of things. As the name clearly points out, the core function is to let you know how many characters are in a specific text string.

Input goes in a dedicated field and needs to be inserted from the clipboard, because the application can’t extract text from existing files. Unfortunately, all text needs to be on a single line for the process to successfully count characters. Result is displayed as soon as text reaches the input field.

For more practicality, the application is fitted with a size limiter. This doesn’t affect the amount of characters you can insert, but rather uses different colors to display results, depending whether the string is longer or shorter than the target value. To access the program a lot faster, you can assign a hotkey command to its shortcut.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Character Counter is a practical application which instantly lets you know whether or not your text meets length limitations. However, it could have used options to read at least plain text files, or process text on multiple lines.