Paragraph Counter

In short A paragraph counter splits on blank lines, not on line breaks — one or more empty lines separate paragraphs, and a single line break inside a block does not start a new one. That distinction matters when you paste from a PDF or an email, where every visual line often ends in a hard break and a naive counter reports fifty paragraphs in a page of prose. The reason to count them is that paragraph length controls whether text gets read at all on a phone. Around 40 to 60 words reads comfortably on a narrow screen; past about 120 words a paragraph becomes a grey wall and readers skip it whole, which is why web writing runs to far shorter paragraphs than print ever did. Counting also finds the imbalance you cannot see while writing: a piece with one 200-word paragraph among fifteen 50-word ones almost always has a structural problem at that spot, usually two ideas that were never separated. This tool reports each paragraph's word count for exactly that reason rather than giving a total alone.