Clipboard Inspector
Inspect what you just copied: type, size, counts.
How to use
- 1 Click "Paste from clipboard" or paste text into the box.
- 2 Read the detected content type at the top of the report.
- 3 Check the character, word, line and byte counts.
- 4 Copy the report if you need to record the figures.
About Clipboard Inspector
The Clipboard Inspector tells you exactly what is sitting on your clipboard.
Paste in any text — or use the one-click read button where supported — and it instantly reports the essentials: how many characters, Unicode code points, words and lines it contains, and how many bytes it would take once encoded as UTF-8.
The byte and code-point counts are especially handy because emoji and accented characters take more than one byte, so a string that looks short can be larger than expected.
It also makes an educated guess at the content type, recognising URLs, email addresses, plain numbers, valid JSON snippets and multi-line blocks, which is a quick way to confirm you copied the right thing before pasting it somewhere it matters.
The detection is deliberately conservative: text that merely looks like JSON but does not parse is reported as plain text rather than mislabelled.
Everything is computed locally in your browser — the pasted content is never uploaded, logged or stored — so it is safe to inspect tokens, passwords or other sensitive snippets.
It also works offline once the page has loaded.
FAQ
Why is the byte count larger than the character count?
Bytes are measured in UTF-8, where emoji and accented or non-Latin characters take two to four bytes each, so text with such characters has more bytes than characters.
Why did the paste button not work?
Reading the clipboard programmatically needs a secure context and permission, which some browsers restrict. If it fails, just paste manually into the text box and the analysis still runs.