Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Short and Sweet
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Short and Sweet launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Word Counterâ–˛249A simple, beautiful word and character counter
2018 · wordcounter.io · its alternatives →
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Zero Width Shortenerâ–˛314Shorten URLs with zero-width characters
2019 · zws.im · its alternatives →
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Driver.jsâ–˛446A lightweight engine to drive user's focus across the page
2018 · kamran.fyi · its alternatives →
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CharacterCounterâ–˛91An ultra-fast tool to check how many characters you've typed
2019 · charactercounter.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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- 7BJ
2013 · jakiestfu.github.com · its alternatives →
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With Ken Powers Comes Ken Responsibility
2016 · knpw.rs · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I became frustrated with the unpredictible/poor match quality and opaqueness of "relevance scores" in existing fuzzy and fulltext search libs, so I tried something different and this is the result. The main selling point is the result quality / ordering, with best-in-class memory overhead and excellent performance being bonuses. The API is pretty stable at this point, but looking for feedback before committing to 1.0. TL;DR The test corpus is a 4MB json file with 162k words/phrases, so give it a second for initial download. You can also drag/drop your own…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Charactersâ–˛143Mac menu bar app for quick use of special characters.
2015 · getcharacters.com · its alternatives →
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Counterâ–˛73Counting characters and words in the text layer.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Short Menu 3.0 for Macâ–˛199The most powerful URL shortener for macOS
2017 · shortmenu.com · its alternatives →
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Tweet Counterâ–˛132Bring back the tweet character counter in twitter
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Keeps you within social media and SEO character count limits
2024 · theendearingdesigner.com · its alternatives →
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Character Counterâ–˛102Highlight text beyond a limit you set and use AI to edit
2023 · originality.ai · its alternatives →
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CopySymbol™▲68Copy & paste special character library, shortcuts, CSS codes
2022 · its alternatives →
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CharacterCounterPro is a free online character counter and word counter. Get instant character count, word count, letter count, and sentence count, plus live Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, SMS, and SEO character limits — private, accurate, and works offline.
2025 · charactercounterpro.com · its alternatives →
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emotes.io▲113All your favorite emotes in one page ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
2019 · emotes.io · its alternatives →
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Hello HN community. Usually, I write open source code and release it to this community for you to all enjoy, but last time i released this code, I expected more feedback than I had actually received. That being said, I would benefit greatly from some feedback, whether it is about my code or my process of publicizing it. Any help would be great! https://github.com/jakiestfu/Snap.js Enjoy!
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Compare character count, pixel width & object length of text
2021 · its alternatives →
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Character Counterâ–˛10Professional online tool for text analysis
2024 · charactercounter.app · its alternatives →
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FREE Word Counterâ–˛12Count words and characters instantly
2025 · agenticdev.agency · its alternatives →
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Image comparison component leveraging native HTML range input and a few lines of JavaScript.
2025 · muffinman.io · its alternatives →
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