Tasbih counter for PC

Search for a tasbih counter for a computer and most of the top results tell you to install Android emulation software, then install an Android app inside it, so that you can press a button and see a number go up.

That's several hundred megabytes and a background process to replace a web page. A counter is a number and a key press. Your browser already does both.

Space Enter → Page Down each add one.

Backspace ← Page Up each take one back.

Page Down and Page Up matter more than they look. They're what a Bluetooth page-turner pedal and most presentation clickers send. A £10 pedal turns this into a counter you work with your foot, eyes closed, hands free. That's the closest the web gets to counting without looking at a screen, because browsers reserve the volume keys for the system and no web page can use them.

Holding a key down does not run the count up. Auto-repeat is ignored, so a resting foot on a pedal costs you nothing.

The count is written to your browser on every single press. Not on a timer, not when you leave the page, every press. Close the tab, kill the browser, restart the machine: the number is still there.

This is the thing most counters get wrong, and it's the complaint that comes up most often about the apps. Losing a count partway through a long dhikr is a small thing that feels like a large one.

After the first visit the page stores itself in your browser. Open it again with the network off and it loads normally. Nothing about the counter needs a server, because nothing about your count ever leaves your machine.

If you'd rather have it in your dock or taskbar than in a tab, you can install it. In Chrome or Edge, open the page and click the install icon at the right of the address bar, or open the browser menu and choose to install. It opens in its own window after that, with no tabs, no address bar and no other pages in the way.

Installing does one more thing worth knowing. Browsers protect the stored data of installed sites more aggressively than that of pages you visited once. If you count regularly, installing makes your history harder for the browser to clear on its own.

Safari on Mac supports this too, through Add to Dock in the Share menu. Firefox does not currently offer it on the desktop, and the counter works normally in a tab there.

Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Brave, Opera and anything else built on the same engines. The counter uses no unusual features, so if the page loads it counts.

Two things differ by browser rather than by operating system. Vibration is a phone feature and desktop machines don't have it, so the setting is switched off and greyed out there. Keeping the screen awake is supported in Chrome, Edge and Safari, and quietly skipped elsewhere. Neither affects counting.

Pick a phrase from the menu at the top and the target changes with it: 33 for the tasbih after salah, 100 for istighfar, and no target at all for the phrases where no number is narrated. That last case is deliberate. If the hadith gives no count, the page says so instead of inventing one.

The post-salah sequence button runs the whole thing in order: istighfar three times, the salam formula, then 33 SubhanAllah, 33 Alhamdulillah, 33 Allahu Akbar and the closing tahlil to complete the hundred. It advances on its own as each step lands, and the hadith reference for the step you're on stays on screen.

You can also change how the counter looks. There's a ring, a large button, a bead strand and a handheld digital tasbih. All four count from anywhere on the screen and from the keyboard; only the picture changes.

There are no adverts on this page or any other page here, no sign up, and no third-party scripts. You can check that by viewing the page source.

The reason is specific. Read the reviews of the popular tasbih apps and the same complaint repeats: adverts appearing on screen during dhikr, sometimes for gambling or worse. One reviewer paid to remove them and got them anyway. A counting screen is not a place for an advert.

Do I need to install anything to use a tasbih counter on my PC?

No. This one runs in the browser you already have. There's nothing to download, no emulator and no APK. Open the page and press the spacebar.

Which key counts?

Space, Enter, the right arrow and Page Down all add one. Backspace, the left arrow and Page Up take one back. Page Down and Page Up are what most Bluetooth pedals and presentation clickers send, so those work too.

Does it work offline on a desktop?

Yes, after the first load. The page stores itself in your browser, so it opens with no connection. That covers a dropped connection, a flight or a basement.

Will it remember my count if I close the tab?

Yes. The count is written to your browser on every single press, so closing the tab, a crash or a restart can't lose it. It's still there when you come back.

Can I count on my phone and my computer and keep one total?

Not yet. Each device keeps its own count, because nothing is sent to a server. Cross-device sync is planned, and it will stay free and need no email address.

Is a digital tasbih counter allowed in Islam?

Fatwa bodies from different schools have addressed this and permitted it, reasoning that if prayer beads are allowed then a counting tool is easier to justify. Both add the same condition: the heart has to be present in the dhikr.