Description
Shows a count of words and characters when you type in a text box on a website
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Ranking Summary
Overall Rank
Extension Rank
"Word Count" Keyword
"Permission" Keyword
"Cmd/ctrl+m" Keyword
"Counter" Keyword
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Review Summary
Users praise the extension for its automatic, accurate, and unobtrusive word and character counting with live updates and dark mode. It's especially useful for translators and bloggers. However, multiple reviews point out its lack of support for non-English languages, issues with WordPress inserting extra text, technical glitches in complex web apps, and occasional detection problems. Overall, it's highly recommended but can benefit from improved language support and bug fixes.
Pros
- Automatically displays word and character count upon text selection without extra clicks.
- Unobtrusive and elegant interface with a live count feature and dark mode support.
- Accurate word and character counting comparable to Word's count.
- Supports efficient translation with character limits, enhancing productivity.
- Includes features like text saving with Markdown support and is recommended by users for its simplicity.
Cons
- Does not support word counting in languages other than English, such as Russian, Ukrainian, or Vietnamese.
- Adds unwanted text "WordsCharactersReading time" in blog editors like WordPress when editing articles.
- Has technical issues in some environments, especially with single page apps and iframe-based rich text editors, causing misplacement of the counter or console flooding.
- Some users report that it fails to detect or count text automatically, requiring manual copy-paste.
- In certain cases, the counter pop-up location may be inconvenient or outside easy visual range.
Permissions
This extension can:
- storage
Additional Information
2.2.0
May 24, 2022
0.16 MB
en
Developer Information
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