Free Sentence Counter

A sentence counter sounds trivial until you try writing one. Splitting text on every period turns “Dr. Smith paid $1.50 at 3 p.m.” into four sentences, and it misses the ending punctuation of most of the world's writing systems entirely. This counter uses Unicode sentence segmentation instead, so abbreviations and decimals stay put and 。！？؟। are all recognised.

Sentence counts matter more often than you would expect: abstracts capped at a number of sentences, summary assignments, ad copy with a hard limit, readability work where you are trying to bring the average sentence length down. The count updates as you type, so you can edit toward the target rather than pasting and re-pasting.

Everything runs in your browser — your text is never uploaded — and the panel also gives you words, characters, paragraphs, reading time and speaking time. If you want the same numbers with the word count leading, use the word counter.