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About · Since 2019

A counter that grew into
a toolkit.

Digital Tally Counter started in 2019 as one online counter. It is now a browser-first set of counters, scorekeepers, timers, and game trackers used in classrooms, gyms, mosques, stadiums, labs, and living rooms.

2019 In production since
30+ Counters, scorekeepers, timers, games
$0 To start — no account needed
The story

One tool, then many.

The site began with a simple question: where is the online tally counter that just works? It did not exist, so we built it. Everything else grew from people asking, "could it also do…"

Timeline
2019
The first counter. A single online digital tally counter. No account, no app store, no preferences pane — open the page, tap the button, count. Within months it was ranking on Google and quietly serving thousands of people a day.
2020–2022
The first variants. A people counter for venues. A tasbih counter for dhikr. An inventory counter with units. A multi-counter for parallel tracking. Each new tool came from a real request from a real user who needed the same shape of thing, but tuned for their use case.
2023
From counters to scorekeepers. Tennis, squash, badminton, table tennis. The pattern repeated: people were using a tally counter to keep score, but a sport-specific scoreboard with the right rule set was always better. The site started shipping them.
2024
Timers, games, and the cloud. A chess clock. A debate timer. An MTG life counter. A dice roller. And — because parents, coaches, and teachers kept asking — an optional cloud layer for syncing data across devices, saving match history, and sharing scoreboards with co-scorers, broadcasters, and spectators.
2025–2026
A platform, not a page. Basketball with OBS overlays. Soccer with stoppage time. Pitch counters that respect each U.S. state's high-school baseball rules. An attendance tracker. A leaderboard. A whole multilingual content layer. A chatbot that knows which tool you need based on what you're trying to do. The "digital tally counter" name stayed because that is still what most people open first — but it stopped being the whole product a long time ago.
How we work

Three things that have never changed.

The site has added a lot in seven years, but the operating principles haven't shifted.

01

Free in the browser

Every core tool — counters, scorekeepers, timers, games — works without an account, in any modern browser, on any device. We charge for cloud sync, match history, embeddable widgets, team features, and ad removal; we don't charge to count.

02

Privacy by default

Without an account, data stays in your browser's local storage. Nothing leaves the device unless you sign in and opt into a cloud feature. We don't sell data, we don't track across sites, and we'd rather not know who you are unless you choose to tell us.

03

Specialized over generic

A generic counter works for everything in theory and feels wrong for everything in practice. A tasbih counter knows about 33/99/100 targets. A basketball scoreboard knows about shot clocks. A pitch counter knows about state-specific rule limits. That difference is most of the value.

Voices behind the words

The articles are written by people.

The tools are software. The guides, the deep-dives, the explainers — the things you find under /articles — are written by named experts who care about the specific use case they're writing about: classroom teachers on attendance tracking, baseball coaches on pitch counts, hotel operators on lobby foot traffic, rabbis on the Omer, basketball officials on foul attribution.

If you want to see who has written what, the authors page lists each contributor and the articles they've published here.

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