Count Text

About

📝 CountText – Instantly Analyze Your Text with Rich Stats
CountText is a smart, minimalist Chrome Extension that lets you instantly analyze any selected or pasted text for words, characters, sentences, lines, spaces, and now even estimated reading time and character counts with/without spaces — all from a simple popup or right-click context menu.

Whether you're a writer, student, developer, or editor — this tool is your quick companion for accurate and meaningful text statistics.

🚀 Key Features
✅ All-in-One Text Analysis:
🔤 Words
🔡 Characters (with spaces)
✂️ Characters (without spaces)
🧾 Sentences
⏎ Lines
␣ Spaces
📖 Estimated Reading Time (based on 200 WPM)

🖱️ Right-Click Context Menu:
Highlight text on any webpage or PDF
Right-click → “Analyze Text”
CountText auto-opens with stats already filled

📋 Manual Mode via Popup:
Click the extension icon
Paste or type a paragraph
Press Submit to see instant stats
🌒 Incognito Support (optional - enable in Chrome settings)

📄 PDF & Web Support:
Works on browser-rendered PDFs and normal websites
Text must be selectable

📶 Offline-First & Secure:
No network requests
All analysis is done locally
Your text stays in your browser

🧠 Simple, Responsive Design:
Built with React + Tailwind CSS
Sleek, fast, and easy to use


🔍 New in This Version
✅ Character Count with/without Spaces
Great for meeting platform or content limits
Perfect for Twitter/X, Instagram bios, product descriptions, etc.
📖 Estimated Reading Time
Calculated from word count using standard 200 WPM reading speed

⚙️ Permissions Used
contextMenus: For right-click text selection
scripting and activeTab: To read selected text on the page
storage: To pass selected content from background to popup

🧪 Perfect For:
✍️ Writers checking word and character limits
📚 Students preparing essays or abstracts
👨‍💻 Developers analyzing code snippets
📱 Social media creators watching character caps
📝 Editors reviewing structure and flow
🧠 Anyone who works with words daily