Tally Counter: Tap & Click

Count by feel. Tally is a tally counter with one giant button and one big number. You tap, the count goes up, and your thumb feels a crisp click, so your eyes never leave the work.

Most counting apps ask you to aim at a small plus sign. Tally does not. The whole screen counts. Keep the phone in your pocket, keep your gloves on, and keep watching the laps, the rows, the crates, the birds, or the people coming through the gate.

The click is the point. Every tap answers with a sound and a buzz, tuned to land together, and the count fires the moment your thumb touches down instead of when you lift it. That is what makes a manual counter feel like the metal hand counter clipped to a clipboard.

Count anything

At the gate. A crowd counter has to survive a queue, so the number is enormous and the target is the whole screen.
• An event counter that holds one running total across a whole shift
• A head counter for the bus, the boat or the school excursion home
• Two gates, two people, one crowd counter each, and the totals add up later
• An attendance counter for a class, a rehearsal or a training run

In the gym. A workout counter is no use if you have to look at it.
• Reps and sets, counted without breaking rhythm
• Laps in the pool, rounds on the bag, lengths on the track
• A set counter for the last three of a drop set, when the maths gets hard
• Swings and squats with chalked hands and gloves still on

On the land. A hand counter belongs in a pocket, not on a clipboard.
• Head in the yards, ewes through the race, a muster that has to add up
• A stock counter for cartons, cases and pallets on a shelf
• A row counter for knitting and crochet, so you watch the yarn and not the screen
• Tasbeeh, dhikr, mala and rosary, at whatever pace you keep

On paper. Tally marks in a notebook are the oldest counting app there is, and the habit still works.
• The same five-bar rhythm, on a screen that will not smudge
• Scores at darts, cards and the pub trivia night
• Glasses of water, smokes skipped, pages read
• Tally marks add up in your pocket while your hands stay free

Surf clubs, nurseries and door staff all end up wanting the same thing: a people counter that survives a busy afternoon, and a counting app that will not lose the number when the phone locks.

What you get
• Undo takes one off, so a double tap costs you nothing
• Silent mode drops the sound and the buzz for a library or a meeting
• Volume keys count too, so you can tally up without looking at the phone
• The screen stays awake through a long set instead of locking mid-count
• Five named counters on one screen, with an All view and a Focus view
• Themes from Minimal to Retro to Arcade, each with a click of its own
• Your own colours on the button, the numeral and the background
• Light, medium or heavy click, so you can feel it through gloves
• Start from any number when you are picking up a count already in progress
• A home screen widget, so the count is one tap from your wallpaper

Tally is a manual counter, and that is deliberate. The number moves when you move it. Nothing is guessed from a sensor, which is what separates a workout counter you control from one that counts for you.

An event counter should not need a manual. There are no menus to learn, no setup to finish and nothing to sign up for. Open it, tap the screen, watch the number go up.

Nothing leaves your phone. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Your counts stay on your device and Tally collects nothing about how you use it.

One button. No menus. No setup.

Pay once. No subscription. No ads. Yours forever.