The following tool displays a count of characters while truncating anything beyond the 2200 Instagram character limit. This tool serves as a quick guide for checking your content against Instagram’s post character limit. Enter or paste the content into the box below and the number of characters remaining will automatically appear.

This is beneficial when using a desktop browser to post on Instagram. Some browsers that work well for this are Vivaldi and Safari. Vivaldi has a blog post for guidance on this and Safari has the option of changing the mode to iPhone for rendering an app-like behavior through the desktop browser.