About Word Count Kit

Why it exists

Counting words is a solved problem, and yet the tools that do it tend to be covered in advertising, ask you to paste an unpublished draft into someone else's server, and answer only one of the questions you actually have.

Word Count Kit handles the whole set of questions — length, structure, reading time, speaking time, distance from a target — and handles them without your text ever leaving the page.

What it will not do

It will not generate text, rewrite your sentences, expand a paragraph to reach a word count, or complete an assignment. This is a fixed product boundary rather than a feature that has not been built yet.

The reason is simple: a tool that measures your work is safe to have open next to your work. A tool that writes it is a different thing with different consequences, and mixing the two would make the first one unusable in the places it is most needed.

How the counting rules were chosen

Every rule is documented on the tool page that uses it, and every rule has an automated test behind it. Where a genuine ambiguity exists — whether a hyphenated compound is one word or two, whether an emoji is one character or four — the choice is stated openly rather than left for you to reverse-engineer from a number that does not match your word processor.

How it is paid for

The free version may carry advertising in three fixed positions: below the tool, between sections of explanatory text, and near the footer. Never in, above or over the editor. A paid version may exist later; if it does, it will add convenience features and remove advertising, and it will not take away anything the free version does today.