THE TOOLBOX
Free Writing and Text Tools
Five free browser-based utilities for common text tasks. Pick the one that fits your job.
Word Counter
Count words and characters in text, PDF and DOCX files.
Open toolWords to Pages
Need to know how many pages your essay, report, or manuscript will fill? Paste or type your text, and this calculator counts the words and estimates the page count from the font family, font size, and line spacing you choose.
Open toolReading Time
Need to know how long a blog post will take to read, or whether a speech fits its time slot? Type or paste your text into this calculator to see its word count with an estimated reading time and speaking time.
Open toolCase Converter
Retyping a paragraph because it was written in all caps, or fixing a headline word by word, wastes time.
Open toolText Cleaner
Text copied from emails, spreadsheets, PDFs or web pages often arrives with stray spaces, blank lines and repeated entries.
Open toolWord Frequency
Want to know which words you lean on most in a piece of writing? This free word frequency counter lists every term in your text with the number of times it appears, so repeated words are easy to spot.
Open toolChoose a tool
- Words to Pages: estimate how many pages a word count fills.
- Reading and Speaking Time: gauge how long text takes to read or deliver aloud.
- Case Converter: switch text between capitalization styles.
- Text Cleaner: tidy up messy text.
- Word Frequency: see which words appear most often.
How to use them
Open the tool that matches your task and follow the steps on its page.
What to keep in mind
These utilities work on wording, not meaning, so review the results before relying on them.