Privacy

Counting happens in your browser

All counters and text utilities on WordCount (word, character, sentence, paragraph and syllable counters, the case converters (including the camelCase, snake_case and kebab-case pages), word frequency, readability checker, remove line breaks, compare text, the Twitter/X and Instagram character counters, and file word counts for .docx/.txt/.md files) run entirely in your browser with JavaScript. The text you type, paste or drop is never sent to our servers for these tools — you can verify this in your browser’s network tab.

Speech features use your browser’s speech engines

Read-aloud (text to speech) uses your device’s built-in voices and runs locally — the text never leaves your browser. Dictation (speech to text) uses your browser’s speech-recognition service: in most browsers the audio is processed by the browser vendor (for example, Google’s speech service in Chrome), not by us. We never receive or store your audio or the recognized text — it goes straight into the editor on your screen. One exception, clearly labeled on the page: in browsers without built-in speech recognition (such as Firefox), the speech-to-text page offers server dictation — your clip (up to 60 seconds) is sent to our AI provider, transcribed, and immediately discarded. We never store audio or transcripts; only anonymous usage counts are kept.

AI tools process text, then discard it

The AI writing tools (grammar checker, paraphraser, sentence rewriter, summarizer, keyword extractor and translator) work differently: your text is sent over an encrypted connection to an AI model for processing and the result is sent back. The text is held in memory only for the duration of the request. We do not store, log or train on it — our request records keep only metadata: which tool ran, a character count, token counts, timing and status.

On the rewriting tools and the translator, a second, equally short-lived AI check compares your original text with the result to produce the “Meaning kept” score. It follows the same rule: processed, immediately discarded — only the numeric score is kept.

What our analytics see

We record small, anonymous usage events — which tool was used, a text-length bucket (like “under 500 words”), the referring site’s hostname and the interface language. These events never contain your text. We also use Ahrefs Web Analytics, a cookieless page-view counter. We run no ad networks and no cross-site trackers, and we do not sell or share data.

What stays on your device

Convenience features store data only in your browser’s local storage: your draft text (so a reload doesn’t lose it), recent counts, a per-day tally of how many words you wrote (the Desk’s “This week” chart), your word goal, saved translator phrases, and your light/dark theme choice. None of this is transmitted to us unless you explicitly sync it to an account. Clearing your browser data removes it.

Accounts

Accounts are optional and only needed to save things across devices. If you sign in, we store your email address, the documents you choose to save, translator phrases you choose to sync, and daily word-count totals (numbers only — never the text) for your writing streak. A session cookie keeps you signed in — it is the only cookie the site sets, and it is not used for tracking. You can delete your documents at any time. Nothing moves from your device to your account without an explicit action from you (a save, an import, or a sync).

Questions

This page describes what the site actually does, in plain language. If anything here seems out of step with the site’s behavior, we treat that as a bug.

Last updated: July 15, 2026