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 lengths, the rows, the crates, the birds, or the people coming through the door.

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

On the door. 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
• An attendance counter for a lecture, a rehearsal or a training day
• Two doors, two stewards, one crowd counter each, and the totals add up later
• Tally marks on a clipboard, without the clipboard

In the gym. A workout counter is no use if you have to look at it.
• Reps and sets, counted without breaking rhythm
• Lengths in the pool, rounds on the bag, laps on the track
• Swings and squats with chalked hands and gloves still on
• Your thumb knows the number, so your head can stay in the set

In your hands. A hand counter used to mean a metal clicker and a sore thumb.
• A row counter for knitting and crochet, so you watch the yarn and not the screen
• Boxes, cases and pallets during a stocktake
• Cars past the window, deer in the field, sheep through the gate
• A coin counter for the till float, and a head counter for the minibus
• Tasbeeh, dhikr, mala and rosary, at whatever pace you keep

Registers, stocktakes and door duty all want the same three things: a hand counter that fits the palm, an attendance counter that holds the register, an event counter for the running total, and a counting app that will not lose the number when the phone locks in a pocket.

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. If you have been after a manual counter app or a clicker counter app that feels like the real thing, this is it.

A counting app 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.