Free Text Tools

Paste something in and get it counted, tidied or reshaped straight away. Handy for anything with a word limit or a messy copy-paste.

Tools in this category

7 tools

What these tools are for

Text work is full of small chores that do not deserve an application. You need to know whether a description fits under 160 characters. You need to strip the line breaks out of something copied from a PDF. You need a rough reading time for a draft. Each of these takes seconds if the right tool is in front of you and ten minutes if it is not.

Eliroo's text tools are built for exactly those moments. Each one opens with the input box already focused, works as you type, and gives you the answer without a submit button or a results page. There is nothing to sign up for, and if one of them becomes a habit it will install on its own.

Free, and one tool at a time

Most online text tools are the front door to something else. There is a sign-up wall after the third use, a suite to learn when you wanted one answer, or a plan that turns out to hide the single option you came for. It is a lot of ceremony for counting the words in a paragraph.

These work the other way round. Every one of them arrives complete and free to use as often as you like, with no account, no daily cap and no paid tier planned. They also install one at a time, so if the word counter is the only tool here you ever open, that single page can live on your home screen and nothing else has to come with it.

Choosing the right tool

If you want to know how long something is, start with the word counter, it reports words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs and an estimated reading time all at once, so you rarely need a second tool. If you are cleaning text up rather than measuring it, look for the tools that remove line breaks, collapse repeated spaces or strip duplicate lines. If you are changing its shape (case, sort order, encoding) the case converter and the developer encoders are the place to go.

We are adding to this category steadily rather than all at once, and the tools that go in first are the ones people actually search for. If something obvious is missing, it is probably next in the queue.

Getting the details right

Text is trickier than it looks. Depending on how you count, an emoji can be one character or five. A Sinhala or Devanagari letter looks like one character but is stored as several. Plenty of tools get this wrong and quietly give you the wrong number. Ours count the way a reader would, and each page tells you exactly what it counted, so you can trust the figure you are about to rely on.

Working with text on a phone

A surprising share of this kind of work happens on a phone, you are away from your desk, someone sends you a paragraph, and you need to check its length before it goes out. Text tools are usually terrible on mobile: tiny inputs, results below the fold, a submit button that reloads the page and loses what you pasted.

Ours are laid out mobile-first. The input box is large enough to actually see what you pasted, the results sit directly beneath it without scrolling, and because everything updates live there is no submit step to lose your work. Buttons are sized for thumbs rather than mouse pointers, and nothing on the page scrolls sideways.

What we do not do

These tools do not rewrite, summarise or generate text, and they do not check grammar. That is deliberate. A tool that transforms your words needs judgement, and judgement means either a large language model or a set of rules that will be wrong often enough to cost you more time than it saves. We would rather do a small number of mechanical jobs exactly right.

They are not a place to keep a draft either. Reopen a tool and you start from an empty box, which is exactly right for a two-minute job and exactly wrong for anything you will want again tomorrow. Write that in something built for writing, and bring the text here when it needs counting, cleaning or reshaping.

Questions people ask

Do these tools cost anything?

No, and they never will. Every text tool here is free to use as often as you like, with no account to make, no daily limit and no paid tier holding back the option you actually need.

Is there a size limit on the text I can paste?

There is no limit we impose. The practical ceiling is your device's memory, in testing, documents of several megabytes are handled without trouble on a mid-range phone.

Can I keep one of these on my phone?

Yes. Each tool installs on its own, so you can put just the word counter, or just the case converter, on your home screen. It opens straight into a focused input box, without a menu of other tools to walk past first.

Why do word counts differ between tools?

Different tools define a word differently. Ours follows the Unicode text-segmentation rules and counts word-like segments, so hyphenated compounds, contractions and non-Latin scripts are handled the way a reader would expect. Word processors often use a simpler whitespace split and will disagree on edge cases.

Can I use these for work documents?

Yes, and that is most of what they get used for: a client's copy to be measured, an internal draft to be tidied, a column pasted out of a spreadsheet. There is no account attaching the job to a profile and nothing to name or save before you get the answer.