Does my data get uploaded anywhere?
No. Everything runs locally in your browser and nothing is sent to a server.
Is this free to use?
Yes. It is completely free, with no account, no signup, and no usage limits.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The page runs in any modern mobile browser, on iPhone and Android alike, with no app to install.
Why is "the" always at the top of my list?
Because it is genuinely the most common word in English text and nothing is filtered out. The tool reports raw frequency. Skip past the function words at the top of the list, or delete those rows after you paste the result into a spreadsheet.
Why did my word split into two entries?
Two causes. Hyphens and underscores are not part of a word, so "mother-in-law" and "snake_case" break apart. And a curly apostrophe pasted from a word processor is not part of a word either, so "don't" becomes "don" and "t". Convert to straight quotes before pasting if that matters.
Does it count phrases like "machine learning"?
No. It counts individual tokens, so that phrase shows as one hit for "machine" and one for "learning". There is no bigram or n-gram mode.
Are numbers included?
Yes. Digits count as word characters, so years, prices, and version numbers appear in the frequency list alongside real words. If they are noise for you, strip them with the Extract Numbers or Remove Punctuation tools first.
How do I get the result into Excel or Google Sheets?
Copy the result and paste it into a sheet. The count and the word are separated by a tab, which spreadsheets read as a column break, so you land with counts in column A and words in column B ready to sort or chart.
Is the text I analyse kept anywhere?
No. The tokenising and counting happen in your browser tab. That matters here because people paste manuscripts, transcripts, and client copy into a frequency counter, and none of it is transmitted.