About

A calm bench for words

WordBench is a small collection of text tools designed to stay out of your way. No accounts, no clutter, no waiting.

What it is

WordBench started from a simple frustration: most online text tools are loud. They bury a one line job under pop ups and clutter, ask you to sign in to copy a result, or send your text to a server for something a browser can do on its own. WordBench does the opposite. It is a quiet page with a wide editor and a set of focused utilities that each do one thing well.

How privacy works

Every tool runs as JavaScript inside your browser tab. When you type into the word counter or paste a list into the duplicate remover, that text is processed on your own device and never sent anywhere. There is no server that sees your content and no database that stores it. Even if the site later adds standard page analytics or ads, those run at the level of pages and visits, not keystrokes; they never see the words you type into a tool. So a refresh does not lose your work, the text is kept in your own browser's local storage, and the Clear button deletes it. That makes WordBench safe to use with a cover letter, a private list, or an unpublished draft. See the privacy policy for the full detail, including how cookies and ads work if enabled.

How reading time is measured

The word counter estimates reading time using an average silent reading speed of 238 words per minute, from Brysbaert’s 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies and 18,573 participants. Speaking time uses a slower 130 words per minute, which is a presentation-pace convention rather than a research finding, and the site says so rather than implying a citation it does not have.

Every rule the tools apply is written out on the methodology page: what counts as a word, the four different ways characters can be measured, the readability formulas, and the complete stop-word list used for keyword density. Publishing the rules is the point. A number you cannot check is a number you have to take on trust, and this site would rather you did not have to.

Who builds this, and how it is kept honest

WordBench is built and maintained by FusionStudios, a Dutch web studio. It is an independent side project, not a client site, and it earns nothing: there is no advertising, no paid tier, no email list and no affiliate link anywhere on it.

That matters for what you can expect from it. Nothing on these pages is written to sell you something, so there is no reason to round a number in a flattering direction. Where a figure comes from research, it is cited. Where it is a convention, it says so. Where a platform publishes a limit, the page links to the document and shows the date it was last checked, and those checks happen quarterly. What changed and when is on the changelog.

If you find something wrong, say so on the contact page. A correction with a source attached gets made.

The tools

The bench includes a word counter, a case converter, a lorem ipsum generator, and line tools for removing duplicates, sorting, cleaning whitespace, making slugs, and finding and replacing. See them all on the tools page.