ClickTally

Click Counter — Simple Online Click Tally

Count people, laps, items or anything else, one click at a time.

No counters yet — add one to start counting.

Keyboard: Space = +1 · ← / ↓ = −1 · R = reset · long-press −1 / Reset for 0.5s to confirm

A click counter for anything you can tap

This online click counter is the simplest possible counting tool: one giant button, one number, zero friction. Tap once for each thing you want to count and read the total at a glance. It replaces counting on your fingers, pencil tally marks, and notes-app arithmetic, and it works the same on a phone, a tablet, or a desktop with a mouse.

People use a click counter for a surprisingly wide range of jobs — counting attendees at events and classrooms, portions served at a food stall, birds at a feeder, stitches while knitting, turns in a board game, or inventory items during a stocktake. Whatever the task, the pattern is the same: eyes on the real world, one thumb on the button.

Built for accuracy and saved between visits

The minus and reset actions are guarded by a half-second long press, so a stray touch can never corrupt your total. A visible progress bar fills while you hold, then the action fires — subtract one, or back to zero. Keyboard users get instant shortcuts: space bar adds one, arrow keys subtract, and the R key resets.

Your count is persisted to local storage on every change, so closing the tab or shutting the laptop does not lose the number. Return later and it is still there. Need the result elsewhere? One tap exports a CSV file with your current count. The whole tool runs client-side, which means no sign-up, no network calls, and complete privacy.

Why an online counter beats paper tallies

Paper tally marks have three failure modes: they are illegible after the fifth strike-through, they cannot be undone when you miscount, and they are lost the moment the scrap of paper is. A click counter fixes all three. The number is always displayed in full, corrections are a deliberate long press away, and the total survives in your browser indefinitely.

The efficiency gain is real, too. Tapping a button takes about a quarter of the time of drawing a tally mark, and you never re-count a group because you lost your place. Over a few hundred counts, that is minutes saved and zero recounts — which is exactly why referees, stocktakers, and lab techs replaced mechanical clickers with digital ones years ago.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the click counter work offline?

Once the page has loaded, the counting itself is handled entirely in your browser, so your tally keeps working if the connection drops. The saved count also restores without a connection.

Can I count different things at the same time?

Yes — use the Multiple Counters tool, which lets you run up to 12 named counters side by side on one page, each with its own number.

How do I reset the counter to zero?

Press and hold the Reset button for half a second. The long press is intentional: it stops a careless tap from wiping your count.