I Built a Word Count Tool Because SEO Drafts Shouldn't Need a Spreadsheet

I added a small tool to Tools Online today: Word Count.

https://toolsonline.run/word-count

It is one of those utilities that looks almost too simple until you notice how often you need it. I hit this all the time when writing README sections, product descriptions, changelogs, SEO snippets, launch posts, and short technical notes.

The annoying part is not counting words itself. The annoying part is switching context just to check whether a title is getting too long, whether a meta description is still readable, or whether a draft has turned into a wall of text.

What I wanted was the boring version of this tool: paste text, get the counts immediately, keep everything in the browser, and avoid uploading draft content anywhere.

The tool shows character count, characters without spaces, word count, sentence count, paragraph count, and estimated reading time.

Developers write more text than we usually admit. A lot of it is not code, but it still affects how people understand the code or the product around it. README intros, PR descriptions, documentation summaries, changelog entries, landing page copy, SEO titles, and short launch notes all benefit from a quick count.

Privacy matters for tiny tools too. Drafts often contain unfinished product ideas, notes, customer wording, or internal phrasing. There is no reason to send that text to a server just to count it.

You can try it here: https://toolsonline.run/word-count

I am slowly collecting these small daily utilities into Tools Online. The goal is not to make a heavy platform. It is to make the little tasks developers repeat all day faster to finish.