Hello all, I hope you're well. Do you think text editors give us a correct word count? I thought so. Until, I accidentally discovered otherwise. A while ago, I had to count the total number of words in Moby Dick’s first chapter. (Moby Dick is an American novel written by Herman Melville.) To get that number of words I tried Google Docs first; it gave me a word count of 1655 words. Next, out of curiosity, I tried Apple’s Pages which gave a word count of 1679 words. Then, out of even more curiosity, I tried Grammarly which reported 1648 words. I was puzzled. And I ended up counting words by hand (for the curious it came out to be 1663 words–not the same as text editors’). It’s possible that different vendors use a different, and not same, definition of a word. How do you handle spaces in text, how do you handle dashes or en-dashes or even em-dashes; all this matters. Also, the problem of parsing all kinds of formatted text looks simple but it’s not. All this made me interested in the word-count problem :). So I developed a simple online Word Counter. I don't think it's perfect but I'll try to fix things as I find them. If you come across an issue please let me know. I'll try to solve it soon. I hope you find it useful. Take care!

Such an important problem to solve - can't wait to leverage it as a freelancer where every word can contribute to my revenue!

Nice, but can you also include space counts?

It's Simple and easy to use

Congrats on your work. Innovative and useful app. Keep rocking!

What an amazing tool! Good job team!