Free, private, and pleasantly quiet
A calm bench for working with words.
Eighteen text tools that run entirely in your browser, so nothing you type is uploaded, logged or stored. Start counting below, or pick a tool from the bench.
Quick count
The counter, right here, no click needed. Open the full word counter for readability scores and keyword density, or the character counter if you are up against a field limit.
Readability
Readability scores appear once there is text to score.
Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, both formulas and the syllable rules published on the methodology page, so you can check the arithmetic instead of trusting it.
Keyword density
Type at least a few words and the most frequent terms will appear here, filler words aside.
As a rough guide, keep any single term under 2 to 3% of total words. Higher than that usually reads as stuffed rather than focused.
Every tool on the bench
Small, sharp utilities for the everyday work of shaping text. Pick one and it opens instantly, no sign up and no upload.
Why build another set of text tools?
Because most of them get in the way. WordBench is built around a single idea: the tool should be as calm as the writing you are trying to do. The editor is wide, the type is a comfortable reading serif, and the numbers update the instant you type without a single button to press. There are no pop ups to close and no account to create before you can count a paragraph.
Privacy is not a footnote here, it is the design. Every tool runs as JavaScript inside your browser tab. Your draft, your list of emails, your unpublished chapter, none of it is uploaded, logged, or stored on a server. The word counter can keep one local backup of your last draft so a refresh doesn't lose it, but that backup lives only in your browser, you choose whether to restore it, and Clear wipes it instantly. That is exactly what you want from something you reach for with a first draft or a sensitive list.
The bench keeps growing, but it stays small on purpose. A word counter for length and reading time, a case converter for headings and code, a lorem ipsum generator for mockups, and a handful of line tools for tidying lists. Each does one job well and links to the others, so moving between them is quick.
Two things here are reference rather than tools, and both exist because the answers elsewhere are usually wrong. The character limits per platform carry the unit each platform actually counts in, a link to the document the number came from, and the date it was last checked. The methodology writes out every counting rule these tools apply, including the full stop-word list, so you can check the arithmetic instead of trusting it.