Writing Calculators

What these tools do

These are free calculators and text analyzers for writers. They answer the practical questions that come up while you draft: how long a piece is, how hard it is to read, how many syllables a line holds, and how long a reader needs to finish it. Everything runs in your browser, and nothing you paste is uploaded.

Planning length. The words-to-pages converter turns a word count into pages for your font, spacing and margins, and the guide to how many words are in a novel compares your draft with cited ranges by genre. Checking your text. The readability checker scores reading level with six standard formulas, and the reading time calculator estimates how long a text or a book takes to read. Poetry and lyrics. The syllable counter counts word by word and line by line, and the haiku checker tests three lines against 5-7-5.

Where a tool gives an estimate, it says so and shows the assumptions behind it, so you can decide how far to trust it.