About
Tally - Word Counter is a free online tool to count the number of characters, words, paragraphs, and lines in your text. It can also show counts for different types of characters like letters, digits, spaces, punctuation, and symbols/special characters.
Looking for an open-source alternative to Grammarly, QuillBot, or GrammarChecker? Tally also includes a grammar checker that can help you find and understand spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in your text.
Tally runs entirely in your browser, with no accounts, ads, or privacy-invasive tracking. Unlike many tools, it supports multiple languages, computes counts in real-time, and offers a modern, themeable interface (including dark mode). Make sure you have the right number of words for your essay or post by counting them instantly with Tally .
Features
- ๐งฎ Counting: Compute various counts for your text.
- General: Count characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, and lines.
- Characters by type: Count spaces, digits, letters, punctuation, and symbols/special characters.
- ๐ Grammar checking1: Find and understand spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
- ๐ Real-time updates: Watch text statistics update instantly as you type.
- ๐ Multilingual support: Work accurately with text in many languages and scripts.
- ๐จ Themes: Save your eyes with the built-in dark mode, or try one of the other included themes.
- ๐๏ธ Options: Customize your experience with various options.
- Warn on large input text: Avoid accidentally pasting large amounts of text.
- Remember input text: Save your text locally to continue where you left off.
- Enable grammar checking: Check your text for spelling and grammar errors.
- Enable debug logging: Print debug logs to the console for troubleshooting purposes.
- ๐ 100% Free & Ad-Free: Use the tool without distractions, privacy-invasive tracking, or paywalls โ no ads, no sign-ups, no limitations.
- ๐จ๐ปโ๐ป Open-source: Know how to code? Help make Tally better by contributing to the project on GitHub, or copy it and make your own version!
1 Grammar checking support is limited to English for now.
Use Cases
- ๐ Students & Educators: Check essay lengths and assignment limits quickly and accurately.
- โ๏ธ Writers & Bloggers: Track writing progress and optimize structure for readability.
- ๐ Legal & Business Professionals: Ensure documents meet required character or word counts.
- ๐ฑ Social Media Managers: Stay within platform limits for tweets, posts, and bios.
- ๐งช Developers & Testers: Analyze input strings and view line counts for code and data.
- ๐ SEO Specialists: Optimize content length for meta descriptions, headings, and body text.
How it Works
Counting functionality is provided by tally-ts , an in-house library for computing text statistics. Refer to its documentation for more information on how the counting algorithm works.
