For Google Docs · Chrome extension

Find your words.
Keep writing.

Search across your Google Docs. Keep live word and character counts beside the sections you’re working on.

Read-only Google access. A search index stored on your device.

Docs Essay Toolkit finding a passage across Google Docs, with results grouped by document

Find that passage.

Search documents you own and documents shared with you. See matching passages grouped by document, then open the source.

Default shortcut: Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + F

Count each section.

Track words, characters or characters without spaces for selected sections. Your counters update as you edit.

Default shortcut: Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + K

Keep it local.

The search index stays in Chrome. Google access is read-only, with no document content sent to a developer-operated server.

Clear the index or disconnect in Toolkit settings.

Live word and character counters alongside selected sections of a Google Doc

Live word & character counts

A count for the section.
Space for the writing.

Keep an eye on an essay, answer or paragraph without counting the whole document. Add counters to separate sections and choose how each one counts.

Change shortcuts, counting defaults and the search date range in one Toolkit settings page.

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Your documents, on your device.

Document search requires Google sign-in. The extension reads document text and metadata to build a local index; Google API requests go directly from Chrome to Google over HTTPS. It does not use Google APIs to modify documents. You can clear the index or disconnect Google at any time in Toolkit settings.

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