Count words, characters and reading time as you type - here in this tab, with nothing uploaded.
People count the words of essays, applications and manuscripts - work that is not finished and not yet theirs to share. Most counters send every keystroke to a server. This one counts in the tab, and nothing leaves it.
As runs of letters and numbers, so 'don't' and 'e-mail' count as one word each and punctuation counts as none - the way Word and Google Docs count.
At 238 words a minute for reading and 150 for speaking aloud, the averages most studies land on.
No. It counts a novel as happily as a tweet.
No. It exists in this tab and nowhere else, and closing the tab ends it.