Click Counter

A click counter does one job: it holds a number and adds one every time you click. That sounds trivial until you're counting something in the real world and can't afford to lose track — stock on a shelf, people through a door, reps in a set, cars at a junction. The moment you try to hold a running total in your head while doing something else, you lose it.

This one counts on a click, a tap, or the space bar, and shows the total large enough to read at arm's length or across a room.

Mouse, keyboard or touch

Clicking the number is the obvious way in, but the space bar is faster if you're counting quickly and want to keep your eyes on what you're counting rather than on the screen. The arrow keys move up and down, which matters when you miscount and need to step back one rather than start again.

On a phone or tablet the whole middle of the screen is the tap target, not a small button — so you can count with a thumb without looking, the way a handheld clicker works.

• Click or tap the number — counts up by your step
• Space or ↑ — counts up
• ↓ — counts down
• R — resets to zero
• Z — undoes the last click, up to 50 steps back

Counting in twos, fives or tens

The step doesn't have to be one. Set it under Settings and each click moves the total by that amount — useful when things arrive in pairs, in boxes of ten, or when you're counting money in fixed denominations. Counting a till in twenties is far quicker with a step of 20 than twenty separate clicks.

Undo, because miscounts happen

Most click counters have a reset and nothing else, which means one accidental double-click forces you to start the whole count again. This one keeps the last fifty changes, so a stray click costs you one keystroke rather than the entire tally.