Gmail character counter

Write 280 characters emails in Gmail
What is Gmail character counter?
Gmail Character Counter is a Chrome extension that restricts the number of characters you can use when writing emails in Gmail. It provides character, word, and time counters to help you stay within the 280 character limit while composing short and concise emails.

Extension stats

By: SUMMARLY
Users: 216
Rating: 4.00 (1)
Version: 0.1 (Last updated: 2020-02-09)
Creation date: 2020-02-09
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • https://mail.google.com/
  • https://inbox.google.com/
Size: 139.26K

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Extension summary

We help you write short emails—a few sentences at max, by limiting the number of characters to use when writing in Gmail. 
While typing we display a set of counter–how many characters, words and total time spent to write the email.

Features

  • C: Characters Greater than 280, it turns red–we follow the twitter limit
  • W: Words Number of words that need less than a minute to be read, a total of 200–greater it turns red

Change log

  • Currently we support one compose at a time, we are working on releasing a fix to support multi-compose

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User reviews

Really useful as I use an SMS bridge via Gmail and this helps me to limit the number of characters to 160. The only niggle is that, when replying to an email, the three little dots at the bottom left of the email window no longer appear, so I cant easily view the chain of emails below. The workaround is simply Ctrl+A, which highlights the whole message and makes the rest of the conversation appear.
by Steve Pulfrey, 2023-07-04
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Gmail character counter requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Gmail character counter has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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