Word & Character Counter
Live word, character, sentence and paragraph counts, plus reading time and a book-length verdict.
Everything here runs in your browser, needs no account and costs nothing. Work out a royalty, check a manuscript, validate an ISBN, test a cover at thumbnail size or generate a title — then get on with the book.
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Analyse the words themselves. Length, readability, pacing and the small habits that quietly weaken prose, all measured in seconds from a paste of your text.
Live word, character, sentence and paragraph counts, plus reading time and a book-length verdict.
Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, SMOG and Coleman-Liau scores with a plain-English verdict on who can read it.
Set a target and a deadline to see how many words a day it takes, and whether you are ahead or behind.
Per-chapter word counts, averages, and a flag on any chapter that sits far off your usual length.
Counts the hedges, filter words and weak intensifiers that pad your prose, ranked by how often you lean on them.
Finds -ly adverbs and likely passive constructions, with density scored against sensible genre benchmarks.
Ranked single words plus two and three word phrases, with stop-word filtering and a lexical diversity score.
Measures how much of your book is dialogue against narrative, judged against what your genre expects.
Convert text between proper title case, sentence case, uppercase and more, using real capitalisation rules.
These tools tell you what your book needs. When you would rather hand over the manuscript entirely, we build the print interior and the eBook to spec and hand back files that pass on the first upload.
Everything that decides how the finished page looks and what it costs to print, from trim size and typeface to the page count you are billed for on every copy.
Turns a word count into an estimated printed page count for your trim size, type size and line spacing.
Recommends the trim your genre and length call for, with two alternatives and the page count each produces.
Body and heading typeface pairings by genre, rendered live so you see the combination before committing.
Shows how trim, type size and leading change your page count, your print cost per copy and your royalty.
Rounds your extent up to the page multiple your printer needs and tells you how many blanks that adds.
Converts between inches, millimetres, centimetres, points, picas and pixels at any DPI you set.
Check artwork before it reaches a press, generate the codes a cover legally needs, and see your design the way a browsing reader actually meets it.
Turns an ISBN-10 or ISBN-13 into a print-ready EAN-13 barcode, with an optional price add-on, as SVG or PNG.
Generates a scannable QR code for a link, email or text, with colour control and downloadable PNG output.
Checks an image's true resolution at your intended print size and says whether it will print sharp or soft.
Shows your cover at real store thumbnail sizes so you can see whether the title still reads when it is tiny.
Converts HEX, RGB and CMYK with a live swatch and warnings about colours that shift badly on press.
You can check DPI and preview a thumbnail here for free. Designing a cover that still reads at 100 pixels, and wrapping it to exact spine and bleed spec, is what our cover team does every day.
The description, subtitle, keywords and categories that decide whether a reader ever finds your book. This is the work most authors skip and later regret.
Build a formatted description using only the HTML tags retailers accept, with live preview and character count.
Generates goal-focused hashtag sets by genre and platform, sized to what each network actually rewards.
Search 595 official BISAC subject codes by keyword or category and collect the three your book needs.
Builds long-tail phrases for all seven retailer keyword slots, each checked against the character limit.
Generates subtitle options from proven formulas, with length warnings for how search results truncate them.
Produces a 50, 100 and 200 word bio at once, written in the third person publishing convention.
Scores your description for hook strength, length, reading level, stakes and whether it has a call to action.
Builds clean retailer links across every Amazon marketplace and other stores, ready as HTML or Markdown.
Royalties, printing costs, pricing bands and advertising maths. The numbers that decide whether a book earns, laid out before you commit to a price.
Works out your royalty per copy for eBook and print, including delivery fees and per-page printing cost.
Estimates Kindle Unlimited earnings from pages read, per full read-through, per month and per year.
Tells you how many copies you must sell to recover editing, cover, formatting and every other upfront cost.
Build a full budget line by line at budget, standard or premium quality, and see what it takes to recoup.
Compares royalty at every price point so you can see exactly where the rate thresholds cost or earn you money.
Compares page-read income against wide sales, and shows the break-even number of reads.
Calculates break-even ACOS, actual ACOS, ROAS and whether a campaign is genuinely making money.
Estimates your Kindle file size and the delivery fee it quietly costs you on every single sale.
Works out compensation after wholesale discount and returns, compared against a standard royalty.
Splits royalty income between co-authors, illustrators and narrators, before or after shared costs.
Compares print cost and royalty per copy between two printers side by side, with every rate editable.
Estimates daily and monthly sales from a best seller rank, using a model you can calibrate yourself.
Break-even, ACOS and price bands tell you where you stand. Deciding what to change next, across formats, pricing, categories and platforms, is usually a conversation rather than a calculator.
Runtime, production cost and royalty models for authors taking a book into audio, updated for Audible's current rates.
Turns a word count into silent reading time, finished audiobook hours and estimated recording time.
Estimates audiobook units and royalties from a rank, using an editable model you can calibrate.
Works out finished hours, total narration cost and how many sales it takes to break even.
Calculates audiobook royalties on Audible's 2026 model, with the retiring legacy rates there to compare.
Dates, checks and identifiers. The unglamorous admin that has to be correct before you press publish, and that costs real time when it is not.
Enter a launch date and get every milestone dated backwards, from manuscript lock to post-launch reviews.
Validates ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 check digits, converts between them, and checks a whole batch at once.
Inserts the correct hyphens into any ISBN and labels what each segment of the number actually means.
Validators and checklists catch a lot. If a file has already been rejected, or you would simply rather someone else clicked publish, we run the whole submission for you and keep your account in your name.
Naming and front-matter help for the moments when a blank page is the actual problem, from titles and pen names to a finished acknowledgements page.
Generates genre-aware title ideas from proven structural patterns, built around a theme word you choose.
Creates a series name plus matching titles for books one to three, so the naming stays consistent.
Generates pen names that suit your genre and read well aloud, including initial-led variants.
Names by origin, era and character role, with a fantasy mode that builds invented names from syllables.
Writes dedication options by tone and assembles a properly ordered acknowledgements page from your fields.
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The calculators tell you the numbers. When you would rather hand over the interior, the cover or the upload entirely, that is what we do every day — to spec, first time, for any platform.