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Local-firstYour text never leaves your browser. No upload, no account, no server.
Most online text tools send whatever you paste to a server, run the work there, and send a result back. Your words sit in someone else’s logs, backups and databases, and you have to trust a privacy policy.
Local-first means the opposite: the whole tool is downloaded to your browser and runs on your own device. Nothing you type is transmitted anywhere — not to us, not to anyone. There is no server that could receive it, which is a stronger guarantee than a promise not to look.
Three consequences worth knowing:
Paste or type and the counts update as you go — no button to press. Alongside words and characters you get characters excluding spaces, which is what most social and SMS limits actually measure, plus sentences, paragraphs and an estimated reading time at 200 words per minute. Emoji and accented letters count as one character each rather than two, which is where a naive length check goes wrong.
One includes spaces, tabs and newlines; the other excludes all whitespace. Post and message limits usually count everything including spaces, while some form fields and database columns do not.
One. Many counters report two because an emoji occupies two UTF-16 code units internally, which is a detail of how text is stored rather than anything a reader would recognise as two characters.
Words divided by 200 per minute, rounded up, which is a common estimate for adult silent reading of prose. Treat it as a rough guide: dense technical writing reads slower and dialogue reads faster.
No. Counting happens in your browser as you type and there is no server to send it to, so a draft or a confidential document stays on your machine.