Volume Button Tally Counter

Counting usually happens when your hands are busy. Stock on a shelf, people coming through a door, reps in a set. If you have to aim at a small button on screen every time, you end up watching the screen instead of the thing you are counting.

This app counts with the volume keys. It works with the phone still in your pocket, with gloves on, without looking.

Use it as a tally counter, click counter, people counter, lap or rep counter, stock counter — or to count prayers, dhikr or japa — pressing the volume key without looking at the screen.

■ There is no reset button
When you are done, press Done. It saves instead of resetting. The run is kept as "2026-08-22 · 14:03-14:20 · Stock 1,942" and the screen starts again at zero. Press it by mistake and you lose nothing. Deleting is something you do later, on purpose, from the list.

■ Pick up where you left off
Tap a saved run and you keep counting from that number. What you started today can be finished tomorrow.

■ Turn it sideways for more counters
Counting two things at once — in and out, pass and fail — put the phone on its side. On a wide screen you can open up to four columns, with the total shown above them. Each column can be named, so you still know what you counted a week later.

■ Straight from Quick Settings
Put the tile in Quick Settings and the counting screen opens without going through the home screen.

■ What it does not have
· No account. No sign-in.
· No internet permission — it is not that we choose not to send your data, it is that we cannot.
· No ads.
· Nothing asks you for permission.
· Records stay on this phone. They do not follow you to a new one.

■ Worth knowing
· Hold ＋ to add ten at a time.
· Hold a volume key and the system volume panel opens; it does not count then.
· Press and hold a record to select, copy or share it.

"Built for myself" is a series of apps made because they were needed, and used every day by the person who made them. No settings screen, nothing to sell, nothing that asks.