SnapToolsText Truncator
Runs in your browserCut text to a fixed character limit, breaking at a clean word boundary and appending an ellipsis — the exact job of trimming a meta description or preview snippet.
About this tool
Search snippets, social previews, and card layouts all enforce a character budget, and cutting text off mid-word looks broken. This tool truncates to your limit and backs up to the nearest word boundary before appending an ellipsis, so the result always reads as a clean, intentional excerpt rather than a raw string cut.
How to use
- Paste the text you want to truncate.
- Set the character limit — 160 is a common meta-description length.
- Run to get a cleanly truncated excerpt.
When to use this tool
- Trimming a meta description to a search-engine-friendly length.
- Creating a preview excerpt for a card or list view.
- Fitting a title or label into a fixed-width UI element.
Tips
- 160 characters is the traditional meta description guideline; Google's actual display limit varies and it's more pixel-width than character-count based.
- Turn off word-boundary cutting if you need an exact character count regardless of where it lands.
FAQ
- Does this count characters or words?
- Characters, including spaces — the same unit search engines and most UI constraints use.
- Is my text sent anywhere?
- No. Truncation runs entirely in your browser.