Count words and characters

Word Counter is a useful, free program only available for Mac, that belongs to the category Utilities with subcategory Text.

More about Word Counter

Since we added this software to our catalog in 2007, it has already reached 7,725 downloads, and last week it had 3 downloads.

The current version of the program is 2.10.1 and it has been updated on 2/18/2013. This software is available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and previous versions, and you can get it only in English.

About the download, Word Counter is a slick software that will require less space than most programs in the section Utilities. It’s very heavily used in Spain.

Added the ability to set a goal for words and characters and to track progress towards that goalCan now exclude minor words (e.g. “a”, “of”, “or”, “the”) from the countCan now close the main window without quitting the programCan now set default font sizes for the applicationCan now set whether the application should use plain or rich text as a defaultNow works with the BBEdit applicationImproved preferences windowImproved handling of invalid file types when files are dropped into the main windowNew Leopard (OS X 10.5) compatible application iconMinor interface enhancements

Changes

• Added the ability to set a goal for words and characters and to track progress towards that goalCan now exclude minor words (e.g. “a”, “of”, “or”, “the”) from the countCan now close the main window without quitting the programCan now set default font sizes for the applicationCan now set whether the application should use plain or rich text as a defaultNow works with the BBEdit applicationImproved preferences windowImproved handling of invalid file types when files are dropped into the main windowNew Leopard (OS X 10.5) compatible application iconMinor interface enhancements

Word Counter is a Macintosh OS X application that performs a word count and a character count, but it can do much more. It can work alone or in conjunction with Apple’s own TextEdit application via a small floating window. Text can be typed, pasted, or dragged into the window. Word Counter can automatically update the count based on a user-definable time interval. It also can perform bulk counts on multiple files and folders simply by dropping them onto the window.

Word Counter can count the number of times a particular word appears in a document. It can even create a sortable summary table of all words in the document, with the number of times each word appears and the length of each word. Word Counter can handle various file types including plain text (txt, text), rich text (rtf, rtfd), Hypertext Markup Language (htm, html), Microsoft Word (doc), Microsoft Word XML (wordml), and Apple’s web archive (webarchive). This program may be useful for writing a manuscript or an abstract with a strict limit on the number of words or characters allowed.