What this site is
wordtools.xyz is a small set of utilities for working with text: counting words and characters, converting case, scoring readability, measuring keyword density, generating placeholder text, comparing two versions, and removing duplicate lines. Each one does a single job and does it as you type.
There is no sign-up, no paywall, no upload step and no waiting. You arrive, you paste, you have your answer.
Why it exists
Text tools are among the most-searched utilities on the web and among the worst served. The typical result is a page carrying more advertising than function, that makes you press a button and wait for a round trip to a server for a calculation your own machine could do instantly — and that quietly keeps a copy of whatever you pasted.
That last part is the one that bothered us enough to build this. People paste genuinely sensitive things into text tools: unpublished manuscripts, draft contracts, client copy under NDA, personal letters. Sending that to someone else's server to have the words counted is an absurd trade, and most people making it have no idea they are.
How it works
Everything runs in your browser. Your text is never transmitted, never stored and never logged — there is no server behind this site that could receive it. You can verify that yourself: open your browser's network inspector and type into any tool. Nothing goes out. The privacy policy has the full detail, including the analytics and advertising cookies that are present.
How the counting is checked
Text analysis is deceptively fiddly, so the logic is covered by an automated test suite that runs on every change. It pins down the awkward cases specifically: hyphenated words, contractions, em dashes, multiple spaces, line breaks, trailing whitespace, numbers, and whether “don't” is one word or two. Reading time uses a stated words-per-minute figure rather than a mystery constant, and readability scores implement the published formulas rather than approximations of them.
Where a genuine ambiguity exists — and in word counting there are several — the tool page says which convention it follows rather than pretending there is one right answer. If you find a case where a count looks wrong, thecontact form comes straight to us.
Who builds it
The site is built and maintained by The Idea Works, an independent studio making small, useful web tools. It is one of several — the others include a colour picker and a percentage calculator. They share an approach: do one thing, do it quickly, explain it properly, and do not charge the visitor in attention for the privilege.
How it is funded
Advertising, and nothing else. There is no premium tier and we do not sell data — we collect none that would be worth selling, and the text you paste is not ours to sell in any case. Ads pay for the domain, the hosting and the time. They sit in fixed positions that do not move, expand or cover what you came for, and there are none at all on the policy pages or the 404 page.
A note on English
The site is written for a global audience and the tools are language-agnostic where they can be. Readability formulas are a partial exception: the well-established ones were built and validated on English, and applying them to other languages produces numbers that look plausible and mean very little. Where that limitation applies, the tool page says so.