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Key highlights of the appGet a word count and character count on a Confluence page in seconds

Step 1: highlight text while in publish mode
Supports all languages (Unicode).
Step 2: click on the menu drop-down
Select the menu drop-down, then select Word Count
Step 3: result
Get an exact number of words and characters for the highlighted text.
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More details
Word Count for Confluence is the first inline word and character count for Confluence cloud.
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How to get an inline word or character count in Confluence Cloud:
Step 1: Highlight any Confluence text in publish mode
- Supports all languages (Unicode)
Step 2: Open menu and choose
- Click on menu dropdown → Word Count
Step 3: Result
- Get an exact number of words and characters
Note: only works in published mode (this is a technical limitation by Atlassian).
- Ignores special characters like Google Docs and Word
- Supports all languages (Unicode international character sets)
- No security worries, all processing done within Confluence, we never store your data
Resources
App documentation
Comprehensive set of documentation from the partner on how this app works
Privacy and Security
Privacy policy
Atlassian's privacy policy is not applicable to the use of this app. Please refer to the privacy policy provided by this app's partner.
Partner privacy policySecurity program
This app is part of the Marketplace Bug Bounty program.
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Word Count for Confluence integrates with your Atlassian app
Version information
Version 5.0.0•for Confluence Cloud
- Release date
- Oct 30th 2026
- Summary
- New: count in edit mode, page report, macro, additional metrics
- Details
See release history.
What’s new
- Edit mode
- count words and characters in edit mode as well
- Live docs
- supports Live docs
- Characters (excluding spaces)
- a new metric
- Understand how count
- explains how the count is done with a link to on Confluence limitations
- access via tooltip icon (see the docs page)
- Page report
- detailed content statistics including keywords
- open from More Actions or byline menu
- Word Count macro
- see total words and characters
- Edit mode
- Payment model
- Paid via Atlassian
- License type
- Commercial