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Simple Word Counter

By tb

Count words quickly and easily. Highlight text and instantly get the word & char count.

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Time on the storeAbout 3 years or moreA rough range, not an exact date

Store users3KAs shown on the Chrome Web Store

Chrome Web Store rating3.5 / 520 ratings on the Chrome Web Store

Last store update27 Mar 2026Version 12.7, 6 months ago

How Simple Word Counter is doing

Simple Word Counter has been on the store for about three years or more and is in the top 5% of Tools by users. Recent activity is steady.

Time on the store: About 3 years or more
Place in Tools: Top 5%
Recent direction: Steady

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Richard Dunks25 days ago
I'm going to be kind and think there was some update to Chrome that made this fail just like all the other word counting extensions I've tried. That being said, just move on if you're looking for something because this one doesn't work either.
Demian11 months ago
Works perfectly, thank you!
Arkylie (Kilyle)12 months ago
Just like the last such plugin I tried, this counts em-dashes as word-connectors. This is not how the em-dash works. A hyphen connects words: jack-in-the-box counts as a single word. An em-dash *separates* phrases. It's a way of stopping one thought to bring in another one, kinda like parentheses, or for conveying a kind of frantic, jumbled sequence of events. The following would be twelve words each: He wanted to see her again—if only for one bitter moment. For her sake—though it pained him greatly—he would do it. Panting, he turned—glanced around frantically—spotted her—rushed to her side. Your program would count these as 11, 10, and 9, respectively. Individually, that's not a huge amount, but when you start dealing with longer content, it adds up to a lot. I checked with a piece with a known count of 21,586; this plugin claimed 21,356, a discrepancy of 230, probably close to the number of em-dashes in the tale. Please fix this. I would like to be notified if you do. P.S. You might also look into the en-dash and determine its function; it doesn't work like a hyphen, but is a little more complicated. The em-dash *never* connects words, but the en-dash might (though it's also much rarer). Also, there's a video by languagejones that explains why it's actually kinda hard to define a word, discussing the whole hyphens thing, so you might give that a look.
Panagiotis Drivilas13 months ago
Sometimes it thinks I have selected text when in reality I just clicked a menu to navigate. For example in reddit when clicked to view from Hot to New, and it makes the popup menu to close so it can show the word count popup.
gilles charvet18 months ago
Dommage, cela ne fonctionne pas sur les sites qui m'intéressaient
Vishal Chaudhari18 months ago
does what it does excellently, a little too excellently. It keeps doing that and stealing the cursor when you are trying to select and edit something. most often keystrokes wont register, making it very annoying when you are working on say email or some document.
Mia Ramirez19 months ago
I used this to check word counts for students, but it does not work with Canvas using Google.
Freddy19 months ago
Doesn't seem to be working for me for whatever reason. Nothing happens when I highlight text in regular and incognito.
Yannis Samatas (ArtKreta)19 months ago
This is a very convenient and well-designed extension, but I’ve encountered an issue: it doesn’t seem to work within the Gutenberg editor on WordPress sites. I hope this compatibility can be addressed in a future update—it would make the tool even more versatile and useful!
Kay Langfitt20 months ago
Hello, would you be able to add Reedsy to the list of websites this would work on?
Hassan Radwan21 months ago
Excellent Plugin, what i love most about it is its simplicity. No fancy stuff, just character counting. As an SEO specialist, i use this to count characters for Meta Titles and Meta descriptions. However I gave it four stars because the plugin only counts characters without spacing. Google's counts the Meta Titles and Meta descriptions counts characters with spacing. My message to the developer is please give us the option to count the characters with spacing and/or without spacing. A toggle feature in the options to select what would be displayed would be so helpful. Thank you
Haris Sheikh24 months ago
Whoever made this extension, I Love You!
Yves Torre2 years ago
doesn't work on gdocs
Lauren Cooper2.1 years ago
I love this extension, but sadly I had to turn it off because it was causing trouble for me to work in https://platform.openai.com/playground/assistants. I causes some glitching and I has to turn it off to continue working. Let me know if you get this to work and I'll turn it back on.
Paulo Bayabos2.2 years ago
Great extension but I noticed it messes up the Gmail interface (creates a blank white strip at the top and on the left side). Confirmed this because the issue went away when I turned the extension off (and came back when I turned it back on). Thought you should know.

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Package size: 184KiB
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