Best Word Counter for Bloggers in 2023

Free!

Free Word Counter for Writers:

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1app The writing input into the app stays on your browser only. No trackers of any kind.

optional: Full page app

Substack doesn’t have a word counter as we write our articles. Substack DOES now have a word counter built into the editor. Thanks! Well, I took it upon myself to build you all a cool word counter.

This necessity was on a list I made a couple of weeks ago about what I’d like to see on SubStack to make it better for us writers.

What is the Optimum Word Count for a newsletter article?

There’s no right answer, but some are:

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2. Everyone has an opinion about optimum word count. I posted a tweet with a link to an article that 965,000 people saw so far. It was just under 2400 words.

3. I counted (copy and pasted into my Word Counter) the 5 most recent articles from 6 random SubStack writers with an average of thousands to tens of thousands of subscribers each. The 30 articles for everyone averaged about 2400 words.

4. It’s a personal choice. If your writing is compelling and carries the reader through the story paragraph by paragraph, then the 64000 average words for an English language book would work. However, I wouldn’t try an article of that length on SubStack, unless you break it into smaller pieces.

5. From SubStack:

   “There is no official word count or length for emails sent through Substack. You're allowed to write as much as you want. However, Gmail will truncate emails that are more than 102KB (the "Message clipped" notice you might've seen on other people's emails). We display a warning after you've exceeded Gmail's size limit.”

6. Here is what happens when you try to put too much into an article:

   StackHacks: Too long for Email Message?

7. Some writers stick to a 500-word limit. And that is what their readers like about that content.

8. Twitter only allows 280 characters.

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See if you can write your posts in the ‘Blogger’s Word Counter", then copy/paste into your SubStack Editor to format, add media, then publish. Or use it for #Twitter.

Say you have a list of keywords that you are trying to rank for in your blog. This tool shows the top 4 keywords used as well.

Use it to write without distraction. No ads or anything to take away from the task at hand. It’s rewarding to you watch your word count climb as you type.

Create a habit: If you have a daily goal for writing, say 1000 words per day, this lets you know if you are close to being finished.

If you’d like to use this application without the internet you can save the tool as a file on your desktop:

• Go to https://1app.ca

• Right-click and view page source

• Copy and Save page source.

• Paste the page source into a note or text file

• rename it: wordcounter.html instead of .txt

• save it on your desktop. It is now a local file to use as you wish. 😀

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