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25 free text tools — word count, case converter, character limit checker, lorem ipsum, text repeater, diff checker, palindrome checker, hashtag generator and more.
Whether you need to count words in an article, convert text to a URL-friendly slug, check that a tweet has not exceeded 280 characters, generate lorem ipsum placeholder text, remove duplicate lines from a dataset, compare two versions of a document side by side, or translate text between languages — LazyTools has a free text tool for it. All 25 tools run in your browser.
From the free word counter and character limit checker to the case converter, find and replace, text summariser, hashtag generator, fancy text generator and slug generator — this collection covers the full range of text manipulation tools that writers, developers, social media managers, students and content creators need daily.
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Free Online Text Tools: The Complete Writer's and Developer's Guide
Text manipulation is one of the most frequent tasks across writing, development, content creation, data cleaning and digital marketing — yet the tools for it are scattered across apps, extensions and paid services. LazyTools offers 25 free, browser-based text tools covering word counting, case conversion, deduplication, translation, summarisation, formatting and generation, all running client-side with no data transmitted anywhere.
Free Word Counter and Text Analytics
The free Text Studio combines the most commonly needed text metrics: word count, character count (with and without spaces), sentence count, paragraph count and estimated reading time (calculated at 200-250 WPM for average adult reading speed). It also includes a case converter and whitespace normalizer in the same interface. The standalone Word Count tool provides the pure count for users who need just the number. Word counting is used by writers checking article length against editorial briefs (1,500-2,000 words for a feature, 300-500 for a social post), students meeting minimum essay length requirements, content managers verifying SEO target word counts, and transcriptionists checking transcript completeness.
Free Character Limit Checker for Social Media
The free Character Limit Checker displays a live character count with a visual indicator showing proximity to the limit for each major platform: Twitter/X (280 characters standard, 25,000 for Blue long posts), LinkedIn (3,000 for posts, 2,000 for comments, 220 for connection requests), Instagram (2,200 for captions), WhatsApp (65,536 characters), YouTube (5,000 for descriptions), TikTok (2,200 for captions), Threads (500) and Pinterest (500 for pin descriptions). Switching between platforms shows the same text against each limit simultaneously — helpful when adapting content across channels from a single draft.
Free Case Converter — camelCase, snake_case, Title Case and More
The free Case Converter converts text between all standard formats used in writing and programming. Title Case (following AP Style or Chicago Style rules). UPPERCASE and lowercase. Sentence case. camelCase (JavaScript variables and function names). PascalCase (class names, React components). snake_case (Python variables, database column names, URL paths). kebab-case (CSS class names, URL slugs). SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE (constants in most programming languages). Converting between these is a frequent need when adapting content from one context to another — copying a phrase from a design brief into a CSS variable, or adapting a database column name for a JavaScript object key.
Free Slug Generator for URLs and Permalinks
The free Slug Generator converts any text into URL-safe slugs: lowercase, hyphen-separated, with accented characters transliterated to ASCII equivalents and all special characters removed. "This is an Article Title: 5 Ways to Improve SEO (2025)" becomes "this-is-an-article-title-5-ways-to-improve-seo-2025". Handles a wide range of Unicode inputs including Arabic, French, German and Spanish — accented characters are transliterated rather than removed, keeping slugs descriptive. Used for WordPress permalink slugs, blog post URLs, Shopify product handles, API endpoint names and any human-readable URL component.
Free Find and Replace with Regex Support
The free Find and Replace tool performs bulk text substitutions in any pasted content. Plain text mode replaces exact string matches (case-sensitive or insensitive). Regular expression mode supports full JavaScript regex syntax including groups, quantifiers and flags. A match count shows how many replacements were made. Common uses: cleaning data exports with inconsistent formatting, replacing placeholder text in email templates, normalising date formats across a dataset, removing unwanted HTML tags from copied content, and applying consistent terminology across long documents.
Free Hashtag Generator for Social Media
The free Hashtag Generator suggests relevant hashtags categorised by volume: high-volume tags (millions of posts — broad reach but competitive), medium-volume tags (hundreds of thousands — good balance), and niche tags (thousands of posts — less competition, more targeted audience). Instagram's best practice is a mix of all three tiers for optimal discovery. The generator includes platform-specific suggestions for LinkedIn (where effective hashtag culture and the right number of tags differ significantly from Instagram) and Twitter/X. The related Fancy Text Generator converts standard text to Unicode variants — bold, italic, cursive, bubble, strikethrough — that display in any platform supporting Unicode input, including Instagram bios and Twitter profiles. The Old English Text Generator converts text to Fraktur (blackletter) Unicode for gothic and medieval-themed content.
Free Lorem Ipsum Generator and Text Cleaning Tools
The free Lorem Ipsum Generator produces Latin placeholder text in paragraphs, sentences, words or bytes — used by designers building page templates before final copy is available, and developers populating database fields with realistic-looking text for UI testing. The Remove Duplicate Lines tool strips repeated lines with case-sensitive or insensitive matching. The Sort and Deduplicate tool combines alphabetical sorting with deduplication in one step. The Remove Extra Spaces tool normalises whitespace — stripping leading and trailing spaces, collapsing multiple spaces to single spaces, and normalising different Unicode space characters to standard ASCII. The Text Splitter divides text by any delimiter (comma, newline, tab, pipe or custom string). The Difference Checker compares two blocks of text side by side, highlighting every addition, deletion and change — equivalent to a git diff for plain text documents.