Text truncator

Shorten text to a visible-character limit, with an optional ending and whole-word cut. Emoji and combining accents stay intact.

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Text truncator processes your input in this browser. Inputs and results are excluded from analytics. Recent tools save tool names, visit counts and last-visit times. Saved tools store only their names. Draft saving is optional and stays on this device; delete saved text with the draft controls. Loading text from a URL is optional and contacts that server; its URL and your IP address are visible to the server. An optional “Use in” action keeps a handoff in this tab. The next tool removes it on arrival and ignores it if more than a minute has passed.

Copy link includes the inputs you choose to share in the address. Anyone with that link can reopen them. Files and generated results are excluded. Password and key tools share settings only.

Your text

Maximum visible characters, including the ending

Options

Ending (optional)

Cut at

Your result

Reset reloads the tool with its starting values and releases open files and device controls. Saved drafts stay on this device until you delete them.

Links include your inputs and settings. Anyone with the link can see them, so leave out private text. Files and generated results are left out; random draws run again.

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Updated 2026-09-19

Using Text truncator

Set the maximum number of visible characters and choose an ending such as an ellipsis. The ending is included in the limit, so the copied result fits the length you selected. Text already within the limit stays unchanged.

The whole-word option removes a partly cut final word. If the first word cannot fit, the result may contain only the ending. Character mode uses all available space while keeping Unicode grapheme clusters intact.

Next: Remove line breaks

A worked example

With a limit of 6 and the default ellipsis, “Hello world” becomes “Hello…”. The ellipsis occupies one of the six visible characters.

Next: Character counter

Before you use the result

This is a grapheme limit, not a byte limit or a platform-specific post limit. Whole-word mode recognizes whitespace boundaries; languages without spaces may need character mode. Original text is not overwritten.

Next: Word counter

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