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DESCRIPTION
Word Counter is an application that performs a word count and a character count, but it can do much more. It can be used independently or in conjunction with other applications such as TextEdit, Microsoft Word, Pages, TextWrangler, and others.
Word Counter can automatically update the count based on a user-defined time interval. It can show the progress achieved towards a set goal for the total number of words and characters. 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 also calculate estimates for readability statistics using the well known Flesch-Kincaid readability formula and many others.
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), Apple's web archive (webarchive), the Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf), and others. This program may be useful for writing a manuscript or an abstract with a strict limit on the number of words or characters allowed.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.10:
- Can now calculate multiple readability statistics such as Flesch-Kincaid
- Multiple minor interface enhancements
- Fixed an issue for counting words with non-standard hyphens such as the em dash and en dash
- Fixed a problem with the order of the columns when exporting or printing multiple file counts
- When counting text with Microsoft Word 2004, subsets of selected text can now be counted
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Word Counter User Reviews (16 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Aug 13 2008 |
YOXI Great app - though I'd really like to see it work with Mail messages too, please :)
(Version 2.8) | |
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| Aug 12 2008 |
... to the developer for fixing the bug I mentioned below.
(Version 2.8) | |
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 | May 19 2008 |
RORO01 Still the same "AppleScript Error" as I mentioned below.
(Version 2.7.1) | |
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 | Feb 26 2008 |
PI-314 Many thanks for this clever, simple, and helpful application. Used with TextEdit, it will allow me not to buy MS Office, as I only used Word to write articles without layout... but I needed absolutely a powerful word counter. Here it is ! Icing on the cake, the developer is so kind and responsive. Congratulations from France
(Version 2.7) | |
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| Feb 25 2008 |
RORO01 The same "AppleScript Error" - The problem I mentioned below still exists.
(Version 2.7) | |
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| Dec 19 2007 |
It shows an error message - "NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4 (1)" - on whatever you click. You can't even quit the application by clicking Quit in the menu bar or C+Q. iMac Intel 10.4.11
(Version 2.6) | |
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 | Dec 21 2007 |
DAVID HANAUER Word Counter has been tested on more than one machine running OS X 10.4 on an intel mac and has worked well. Please contact me directly if you are experiencing trouble (Word Counter developer)
(Version 2.6) | |
| May 1 2007 |
DAVID HANAUER Word Counter cannot open Pages documents directly. As stated in the "What's New" section, Word Counter work with the Pages application itself. So if you have both Word Counter open and Pages open, Word Counter should be able to count the text in the Pages document. You must set it to work with Pages in the Word Counter preferences and then make sure the floating counter window is active. If you still have problems I would suggest e-mailing me and I can try to help you.
(Version 2.4) | |
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| Feb 12 2007 |
ALLBLUE Could anyone explain the advantage of using this app over WordService? http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10523 It provides 37 different word services, including statistics - words, characters, lines - accessible through the service menu, with no need to have a separate app running. I only ask because Word Counter sounds such a good bit of software, but I don't see that it would give me any additional functionality. Incidentally, if you do not want all 37 services fattening up your service menu, this other bit of freeware, Service Manager http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11777 is a PrefPane which allows you to remove any service you do not require from the menu.
(Version 2.2.1) | |
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| Sep 26 2006 |
THE VALRUS Haha, updated in time for NaNoWriMo excitement to start picking up. Marketing genius, I say. That is, if you were making any money off it. ;)
(Version 2.2) | |
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