What this is
A click counter that remembers where you left off. Tap the big plus button and the number goes up. That’s the whole idea. The part most online counters get wrong: close the tab and your count is gone. This one writes every change to your browser’s local storage, so refreshing the page, closing it, or coming back tomorrow keeps the number exactly where you parked it.
You also get more than one counter. Start with a single tally, then add as many as you need and give each a name. Counting people coming in and going out? Two counters. Tracking five different SKUs during a stock count? Five counters, each labeled. The running total across all of them sits up top so you don’t have to add them in your head.
Where people actually use it
A handful of real situations come up again and again:
- Inventory and stock counts. One counter per shelf or product code beats scribbling tally marks on paper, and nothing gets smudged.
- People at a door. Event headcounts, gym capacity, a club checking how many came through. Tap on the way in, hit minus on the way out.
- Laps and reps. Swimmers and runners losing track of laps, lifters counting sets between rest breaks. Set the step to whatever matches one rep.
- Knitting and crochet. Stitch and row counters are a tiny industry of their own. This does the same job: one counter for rows, one for pattern repeats, both saved.
- Crowds and traffic. Counting cars, birds, foot traffic past a storefront, anything that moves faster than you can write.
The spacebar trick matters more than it sounds. When your eyes need to stay on the thing you’re counting, reaching for a mouse breaks your rhythm. Tap a counter once to make it the active one, then just press Space every time something passes. The highlighted card is the one Space adds to.
Handy details
Each counter has a step size. Leave it at 1 for normal counting, or bump it to 12 if every tap means a dozen, or 25 if you’re counting in cases. The plus and minus buttons both respect the step.
The minus button and the per-counter Reset only work down to zero, so you won’t accidentally drop into negative numbers during a headcount. Want a clean slate everywhere? “Reset all” zeroes every counter at once but keeps your labels and step sizes intact.
Nothing here talks to a server. The counts live on your device, which is why they load instantly and work with your wifi off. The flip side: clearing your browser data wipes them, and they don’t sync across devices.
Questions people ask
Will my count survive if I close the tab?
Yep. Every tap saves to local storage right away, so closing the tab, refreshing, or shutting the laptop all keep your numbers. Reopen the page and they’re waiting.
How many counters can I add?
As many as you like. Each one is independent with its own label, count, and step. Most people use two or three, but there’s no cap that you’ll realistically hit.
Does the spacebar mess with typing the labels?
Nope. While you’re editing a counter’s name, Space types a space like normal. The bump only fires when no input is focused, so renaming and counting never collide.
Can I count down instead of up?
Sort of. The minus button drops the count, which works for inventory you’re depleting or a door where people leave. It stops at zero, so it’s a floor-at-zero counter rather than a full negative tally.
Why does the count reset to zero sometimes?
It shouldn’t on its own. If a count vanished, your browser likely cleared its site data, or you opened the tool in a private/incognito window, where storage is thrown away when the window closes.
Does it work on my phone?
It does. The plus button is sized for a thumb, the layout stacks on small screens, and taps register the same as clicks. The spacebar shortcut is really a desktop perk, since phones don’t have one handy.