Reviews of Word Counter - counts what you type
List of user reviews and ratings for Word Counter - counts what you type
Total ratings
4.17
(Rating count:
23)Review summary
Pros
- Works as described and calculates words accurately
- Unobtrusive and delivers live word count without needing to click
- Useful for translators and writers
- Offers dark mode for user preference
- Saves text for later use and includes markdown function
Cons
- Does not support multiple languages well (e.g., Russian, Ukrainian)
- Can be intrusive by adding unwanted text in certain applications like WordPress
- Console floods with messages on each keystroke
- Does not function properly in certain contexts (like rich text editors or reader views)
- Output div positioning can block vision or be out of range
Most mentioned
- Accurate word and character counting
- Unobtrusive design and ease of use
- Issues with multi-language support
- Problems with unwanted text in certain applications
- Console logging issues
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-05 |  | | en | It does work as described! Just reload the browser, select the text, and it automatically shows the number of words and characters on the corner of the screen. Really great! |
| 2025-03-04 |  | | en | Amazing, just what I needed. No wasting time on right-clicking and then clicking again on an obscure option in the menu just to see the word count. Well done! |
| 2024-12-23 |  | | en | can't count words in languages other than English! |
| 2024-05-02 |  | | vi | có đếm gì đâu, phải chi tô phần cần đếm rồi nháy chuột phải, nháy vào this extension, rồi hiện ra số từ. Còn đằng này mình copy rồi bật lên rồi dán vào, mà không hiện ra |
| 2022-11-08 |  | | de | This "Word Counter" is really, the best! While you mark sentences and words, word by word, the characters are displayed in the bottom right in a small "mini pop-up window"! The only one here in the store that offers and solves this so beautifully and elegantly with dark mode! This form is the best and so I have been looking for this really long! But I use this one already now a year about! Can I really only recommend, is also very accurate! For translators with character limits, this is really a blessing, because you can translate so much more efficiently! Thank you, for this little gem of browser extension! Dieser „Wortzähler“ ist wirklich der Beste! Während man Sätze und Wörter Wort für Wort markiert, werden die Zeichen unten rechts in einem kleinen „Mini-Popup-Fenster“ angezeigt! Der einzige hier im Shop, der das so schön und elegant im Dark Mode anbietet und löst! Dieser Modus ist der Beste und deshalb habe ich wirklich lange danach gesucht! Aber ich benutze ihn jetzt seit etwa einem Jahr! Ich kann ihn wirklich nur empfehlen, er ist auch sehr genau! Für Übersetzer mit Zeichenbegrenzung ist es wirklich ein Segen, weil man so viel effizienter übersetzen kann! Vielen Dank für dieses kleine Juwel einer Browser-Erweiterung! |
| 2022-01-31 |  | | ru | Не считает русские или украинские слова и считает пробелы как символы. |
| 2021-12-02 |  | | en | It's nice but there is definitely room for improvement. It's rather unobtrusive, which is a plus, and it basically gets the job done. Alas it doesn't work in some cases, because ist doesn't check whether the div it creates for it's output actually exists in the page. The div gets attached to the document body on setup and is afterwards just presumed to be present, which on single page apps is absolutely not guaranteed. Why not check in your code if your div is actually there, and create it on the fly if it isn't? Another thing is, and that's the one that prevented me from giving more than 2 stars, that it floods the console with messages. Every keystroke in a text field, results in a console message. I presume that this is not intentional but it's an absolute no go. Addition: Other reviewers reported, that they get "WordsCharactersReading time" output. This seems to affect richtext editors, like TinyMCE for example, that use an iframe for text input. As the output div for the plugin gets attached to *every* body tag found on the page, it also gets attached to the body of the richtext editor's iframe. But, as the iframe does not have access to the css of the surrounding page, the div doesnt't get styled properly. Simple solution would be to attach only to the first body tag of a page. |
| 2021-11-19 |  | | en | Useful and simple, recommended |
| 2021-10-03 |  | | en | Nicely helpful. This extension is a notch above the all-too-many similar ones, but the pop-up is either out of easy visual range in the lower right or blocks my vision in a frequently used upper right zone. What is great about this extension is that it does a "live" count vs a click-and-see. I doubt many will need the Counting time. I've noticed that it doesn't work in Reader View extension renditions. My other counter works in one of the readers. Additional feature is that clicking icon will pop up an editing box, and let's you "remember text" (save) so that you can add more text later. It gives you a Markdown function for those in-the-know. I very much like the author's "Pastel New Tab" extension too. |
| 2021-10-23 |  | | en | Hands down the best extension currently available for this purpose. I use this along with Capture2Text & Rename Tab to quickly keep track of word counts for all open tabs, & the distance of the number of words from the column that says "Words" means the OCR recognises the number seperately from the word, alowing me to paste the number first so it stays visible, & not need to remove words when entering the new name name. |
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