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TALLY

Write Japanese text. Count characters and the sounds in your lyrics.

Keep your draft and its analysis together. TALLY helps you fit text to a character limit or compare the length of lyric lines, without uploading your writing.

Price
Free
Processing
On your device
Export
TXT

What you can do

Character counts and targets
See total counts and counts excluding spaces or line breaks. Set a target and follow your progress.
Line-by-line mora counts
Lyrics mode counts the kana-based rhythmic units of each line. Small ゃ・ゅ・ょ combine with the preceding kana; small vowels have a separate counting option.
Writing modes
Choose Japanese prose, lyrics, social posts, YouTube descriptions or general writing. Readability indicators include average sentence length and kanji ratio.
Drafts and revisions
Compare counts with a snapshot, keep text in three temporary slots and export a TXT file.

Get started

  1. Open TALLY and type, paste or import a text file with OPEN.
  2. Choose Lyrics mode to see mora counts. For a lyric written in kanji, enter its intended reading in kana when checking the sound count.
  3. Edit while comparing line lengths. Export important drafts with SAVE .txt.

Before you start

Mora analysis does not automatically convert kanji to readings and ignores non-kana text apart from supported long-sound marks. A mora count is a writing aid, not a count of musical beats or notes. Browser storage is local to this browser and can be cleared; export a backup.

PRACTICAL GUIDE

Count the Sounds in Japanese Lyrics: Characters vs Mora