What is a character count without spaces?
It counts all characters in your text after removing every space, tab, and line break — giving you only the visible character total.
Character Counter Without Spaces counts only the visible, non-whitespace characters in your text, excluding all spaces, tabs, and line breaks. Many academic institutions, publishing platforms, and database schemas enforce character limits that specifically exclude spaces. This tool gives you the exact non-space character count in real time, with no upload or server processing required.
The tool strips all whitespace characters — spaces, tabs, carriage returns, and line feeds — from the input string before measuring length. This produces the exact non-whitespace character count that most programming language string length functions would return after a trim-and-replace operation.
It counts all characters in your text after removing every space, tab, and line break — giving you only the visible character total.
Yes. Commas, periods, exclamation marks, and all other punctuation are included. Only whitespace characters are excluded.
A regular counter includes spaces (Hello World = 11). This tool excludes spaces (Hello World = 10). Use the right version depending on what your platform requires.
Yes. Your text never leaves your browser. All processing is local — no upload, no logging, no storage.
Yes, completely free with no sign-up or limits.
Yes. Unicode characters and emojis are counted, though some emojis may count as 2 characters due to how Unicode encodes them.
Tool workspace
Count characters without spaces online free. Instantly measure text length excluding whitespace — perfect for academic word counts, URL slugs, and database field validation.
Input
Hello World
Output
10 characters (excluding 1 space)