Text Tools
Instagram Caption Formatter
Clean up captions, keep line breaks, add spacing and count characters live.
2 free tools
Free Caption & Hashtag Tools
Polish the words that go with your posts. Format captions with clean line breaks and live character counts, and turn messy hashtag lists into tidy, deduplicated sets you can reuse.
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Hashtag Organizer
Extract, deduplicate, sort and group hashtags, then copy a clean list.
which tool?
Choosing the right tool
- My caption looks like one long block of text
- Paste it into the Caption Formatter to normalize paragraph spacing and remove stray spaces that can break line breaks.
- I'm not sure if my caption is too long
- The Caption Formatter counts characters, words, hashtags and mentions live and warns you when you pass Instagram's 2,200-character limit.
- My hashtag list has duplicates and mixed capitalization
- The Hashtag Organizer extracts hashtags from any text, merges duplicates like #Travel and #travel, and sorts them.
- I use different hashtag sets for different posts
- Create groups in the Hashtag Organizer, such as “Core” and “Location”, and copy each group separately.
quick reference
Caption and hashtag basics
- Instagram caption length
- Up to 2,200 characters, including spaces, emoji and hashtags.
- Visible before “more”
- Roughly the first 125 characters in the feed (varies by app and screen), so lead with your hook.
- Blank lines disappearing
- Remove trailing spaces at line ends; if spacing still collapses, put an invisible character (U+2800) on empty lines.
- Hashtag characters
- Letters, numbers and underscores. Spaces and punctuation end a hashtag, and numbers-only tags don’t link.
- Capitalization
- #Travel and #travel are the same tag; CamelCase (#NatureLovers) just reads better.
Platforms change their limits and display rules; check each app’s help center for current guidance.