Shorten text to a character or word limit for previews, titles and meta descriptions.
About
Shortens text to a character or word limit you set, appending a suffix like an ellipsis to show it was cut off.
SEO writers use it to fit a meta description to a search-engine character limit, while developers preview truncated card and list copy before it ships. It's one of many free text tools on Toolapt, and like every tool here, it's free to use with no sign-up and no limit on how many times you run it.
Examples
3 worked examples
Paste a 160-character product description, set Limit by to Characters with a limit of 120, and Truncate cuts it to 120 characters plus a trailing ellipsis (…), with "Break at whole words" keeping the cut clean.
Paste "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", set Limit by to Words with a limit of 3, and Truncate returns "The quick brown…" instead of counting characters.
Replace the default ellipsis in Suffix with " ... read more" so a truncated excerpt ends in " ... read more" instead of a bare ellipsis.
FAQ
Quick answers to common questions about the Text Truncator.
It shortens text to a character or word limit you choose, adding a suffix to show where it was cut off.
Yes. It's free, with no sign-up, no watermark and no limit on how many times you use it.
Yes. Your text is processed entirely on your own device — nothing is sent to a server.
Yes. Type anything you like into the Suffix field — for example "... read more" — and it replaces the default ellipsis (…).
When turned on, it pulls the cut-off point back to the end of the last complete word within the limit, so no word is chopped in half.
The limit applies to the truncated text itself; the suffix is appended afterward, so the final result may be slightly longer than the limit.
Yes. Choose "Words" from the "Limit by" dropdown instead of "Characters".
It's built for everyday text; extremely long input is still handled but may take a moment longer to process.
Did Text Truncator work for you?