Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, and reading time in real-time — free
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7 tools · Word counter, slug generator, case converter and more
Text processing tools eliminate the repetitive chores that slow down writers, developers, and content teams alike. This collection covers the full spectrum of everyday text needs: counting words and characters with precision, converting between case styles like camelCase and snake_case, generating placeholder copy for design mockups, crafting URL-friendly slugs that search engines can read, editing and converting Markdown documents, and exporting finished writing as a PDF with a single click. Every tool in this list runs entirely in your browser — no file upload, no account required, no data sent to any server. Input stays private. The Yanapex text tool suite is built for professionals who need fast, reliable transformations without installing software, learning command-line scripts, or waiting for round-trips to a remote API. Whether you're a technical writer, a front-end developer standardizing naming conventions, or a blogger checking word count targets, there is a tool here built for your workflow.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between a word count and a character count?
Word count measures how many separate words appear in your text — each sequence of characters separated by a space or punctuation mark counts as one word. Character count measures every individual symbol, including letters, digits, spaces, and punctuation. Word count is the primary metric for readability standards and content contracts (blog posts, essays, SEO articles), while character count matters when a platform enforces a hard upper limit — for example, a 160-character meta description or a 280-character tweet.
Why should URL slugs use hyphens instead of underscores?
Google treats hyphens in URL slugs as word separators — "case-converter" is indexed as two separate words, "case" and "converter". Underscores are treated as word connectors — "case_converter" is indexed as the single token "caseconverter". Hyphens therefore produce better keyword indexing and slightly higher search relevance for multi-word queries. This is why the slug generator always outputs hyphenated slugs.
What is Markdown and when should I use it?
Markdown is a lightweight markup language that uses plain-text syntax to indicate formatting — asterisks for bold, hashes for headings, hyphens for list items. It is designed to be readable as plain text and renderable as formatted HTML. Use Markdown when writing documentation, blog posts, README files, or any content that will be converted to HTML or PDF. Its main advantages over a word processor are that it is version-control friendly, portable across editors, and fast to write once you know the syntax.
Can the word counter handle text in languages other than English?
Yes. The word counter uses Unicode word boundary detection, which correctly identifies word boundaries in European, Latin American, and most romanized scripts. For languages without spaces between words — such as Chinese, Japanese, or Thai — the counter returns character count rather than a reliable word count, which is a fundamental limitation of space-based word boundary detection.
What Markdown flavors does the editor support?
The Markdown editor supports GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM), which includes tables, fenced code blocks with optional syntax highlighting, task lists, and strikethrough. GFM is the most widely supported Markdown variant and is compatible with GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Obsidian, and most static site generators. The Markdown-to-PDF tool also processes GFM and preserves code formatting and table layouts in the output file.