Stuff Counter
Cool little app for counting stuff and visualizing the numbers. First-class integration with iOS ecosystem. Available for iPhone and iPad.
Designed to integrate with your life
Stuff Counter is designed to be simple and effective at what it does - counting stuff you want to count, in a no-friction way, without unnecessary bells and whistles. You can use it to stay on top of things, to track stuff, to form new habits, to keep your ADHD in check, it's up to you. We give counters, you give them meaning.
It will do everything it can not to lose your data. And if you like hacking - it is quite hackeable.
Capture your data
It will be great for counting things like: your workouts, cups of coffee, glasses of water, meditation sittings, journaling sessions, poops of your newborn or a pet, cigarettes smoked, beers drunk, get-togethers with your friends, dates, packs of chips or tables of chocolate you ate, sexual intercourses, instagram posts, blog entries, times you have a hangover, menstruation days, waterpolo games, etc.
Stuff Counter is designed for capturing occurrences of low and medium frequency events. That is any stuff that happens no more than few/few-dozen times a day (however there are no technical limitations to that).
Visualize the data to understand it
...and share if you want! Once you have some data collected, you can generate a chart. This is great for seeing the big picture and finding dependencies and correlations.
Looking at the charts you will be able to spot things like: which days of the week you drink too much coffee, when you tend to procrastinate on your workouts, see your average training intensity over a long period of time, see how working overtime affects your private activities and health, and many, many more.
3 types of charts are currently supported, a simple line chart over a time axis, a cumulative histogram-style chart, a heatmap (like the one you may know from Github). All are designed to be easily readable while highly informative. Once you have a chart, you may easily share it wherever you like. Or just save in photos if you are not a sharing type. Sharing should work for any social application you have installed on your device, like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc.
It's simple
And will always be. The app's workflow is as simple as:
1) Create a Counter (2 clicks and 1 word to type)
2) click that "+" button to add a data point
The only data stored by the application is the timestamp of when you have clicked "+". Ough, and you can teach Siri to increment your Counters, if clicking "+" sounds too clunky.
Widgets
To keep up with your progress, you can add iOS widgets. They show your numbers aggregated over time, by the time period of your choice.
This is to answer questions like: How many glasses of water have I drunk today? How many coffees have I drunk this week? How many times have I gone running this month? How many times I went to the club this year?
Apple Shortcuts
You can create Shortcuts to increment your Counters. So you can integrate Stuff Counter with your existing workflows and solutions.
Siri
After you have created some Shortcuts, you can tell Siri what to do, instead of manually opening the app. It's as simple as saying "Hey Siri, add coffee!"
Dark mode
Because your eyes deserve it. Synchronizes automatically with system settings.
iCloud data storage
You can use iCloud to store your Counters (recommended, enabled by default). This way the data will be synchronized across all of your devices. And more importantly - you won't lose the data when uninstalling the app.
If you are a privacy pervert, you can disable iCloud data storage and your data will be stored locally on your device. Bear in mind though, that you will lose it upon uninstalling the app, and it will not synchronize across all your devices.
Data privacy
No account needed. No data collected. You own the data. The only data stored by the application are simple Counter definitions and the timestamps of when you click the "+" button. The timestamps look like this:
2022-03-13T19:54:00.000Z
2022-03-18T19:34:00.000Z
2022-03-23T19:55:00.000Z
If you use iCloud for data storage, Apple's privacy policy applies.
Regular small business behind
Hello, I am Fred 👋 , nice to meet you! This is my project, there are no boards, angel investors, corporate BS behind it.
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