Truncate Text

Shorten text to a character or word limit with a custom suffix.

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Truncate Text — Free Text Utility

Truncate Text cuts a block of text down to a specific character or word limit and appends a suffix (typically "...") to signal that content continues — the exact operation needed when writing meta descriptions with a strict character budget, generating article preview snippets, or fitting a product description into a fixed-width UI card. Choosing between character-based and word-based truncation matters: character truncation can cut a word in half mid-way, while word-based truncation always breaks at a clean word boundary, trading some precision for cleaner-looking output.

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People searching for this tool use terms like: truncate text online, shorten text tool, text ellipsis generator, cut text to length, meta description truncator. Tooliby provides this utility free with no signup, no watermarks, and no data logging.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Character truncation gives exact length control (important for strict limits like meta descriptions), but can cut off mid-word. Word truncation always ends cleanly but the resulting length is less precise.

That's roughly Google's typical display limit for meta descriptions before truncating with an ellipsis in search results — though the actual cutoff varies by pixel width.

Yes, any suffix text works — some use ' [Read more]' or a custom character instead of the standard ellipsis.

The text is returned unchanged with no suffix added, since there's nothing to truncate.