Prayer Counter Pro Help Documentation

A complete guide to Prayer Counter Pro, from the first tap to your statistics.

Last Updated: November 12, 2026

1. Getting Started

Prayer Counter Pro has five tabs: Counter, Practices, History, Stats and Settings. Open the page and tap the large circle: the count goes up by one and the timer starts. Everything happens on this page; nothing is uploaded and there is no account. How it works, top right of the tool, repeats the main steps.

2. The Counter

The practice's name sits above the circle; tap it to choose another practice. Digital and Beads switch the look of the circle. In Digital mode the circle shows the count in large figures, with an outer ring for the target (or the round, when there is no target) and an inner ring for the round. Under the number a line says which round you are in, how many are left to the target, or how far over it you are. Below the circle, the readout shows the target, what is left (or over), the completed rounds and the time. The panel beside the counter (below it on phones) shows when the session started, its time and today's total over all sessions, and holds the target and round chips, a box for notes and Save these settings as a practice.

3. Targets, Rounds and Milestones

Pick a target (None, 11, 21, 27, 33, 54, 108 or 1,000) or Custom to type any whole number from 1 to 10,000,000. Pick a round length (None, 11, 21, 27, 33, 54 or 108) or Custom for 1 to 10,000. A round repeats; the target is the session's total.

• Each completed round can show a short message, play a soft chime and vibrate, as chosen under Settings, When a round is complete.
• Milestones: with a target of 20 or more, a quiet note at 25, 50 and 75 percent (Settings, Milestone messages).
• The target: the circle glows, a Target reached card shows your own message (Settings, Message when a target is reached) or "Take a quiet moment before you continue.", and the completion sound plays if it is on. Keep counting, New session and Finish are on the card. Counting goes on after the target; the readout then shows how far over it you are.
• Setting a target that is already below the count marks the session as reaching it, without the card.

4. Undo, Reset and Finish

Undo takes back the last change, a count or a reset; Ctrl+Z does the same. Undoing the very first count returns the session to Not started. Reset sets the count to 0; with 10 or more counts it asks first and offers Save and start new. After a reset, the message at the bottom has an Undo button too. Finish asks, then saves the session to History and starts a new one with the same practice, target and round. A session is saved as Completed when it reached its target and as Finished otherwise.

5. Beads Mode

Beads turns the circle into a ring of beads that moves on by one bead with every count. Counted beads light up, the bead at the pointer is the current one, and the larger first bead marks where each round starts. You never have to hit a single bead: a tap anywhere on the circle counts. A round longer than 120 is drawn with 120 beads, each standing for an equal part of the round. Beads mode needs a round length; when none is set it takes your default round (108 at first), and None is not offered among the round chips. Under Settings you can choose wooden, plain, gold or black and white beads.

6. The Timer

The timer starts with your first count and is shown in the readout and the session panel. Pause stops it; counting still works while it is paused, and Resume starts it again. If the page is closed, the tab is frozen or the device sleeps for more than a minute and a half, the timer stops at the last moment the page was known to be open, so the time away is not counted. When you come back, a Welcome back note shows the count and offers Resume timer, Save and start fresh (the session goes to History as Interrupted) or Dismiss. A pause you did not choose ends with your next count. A quick reload carries on timing.

7. Practices

A practice is a saved setup: a name (up to 80 characters), a description, a category, a target, a round length, a mode, a count sound, vibration and a note. The Practices tab lists them with Use, Edit, Duplicate and Delete. Five examples are there at first: one mala of 108, dhikr in three rounds of 33, five decades of the rosary, breath counting from 1 to 10 and an affirmation 21 times. Many Hindu and Buddhist malas have 108 beads, many Muslim prayer beads have 99 or 33, and the Catholic rosary is prayed as five decades of ten Hail Marys; set your own numbers if you were taught differently.

Choosing a practice when the count is above 0 asks first and saves the current session to History. Editing the practice in use changes its name at once; a new target or round applies from the next session. Save these settings as a practice, in the session panel, makes a practice from the current session. Deleting a practice keeps the sessions already in History.

8. History

History lists your sessions by day, newest first, 40 at a time with Show more. Each row shows the practice, its status (Completed, Finished, Interrupted, or In progress for the session on the counter), the times, the time counted, the target or how far it got, the completed rounds and the count. Notes adds or edits a session's notes; Delete removes it after asking. Filters choose the status, the practice and the period (the last 7 days, 30 days or 12 months).

9. Statistics

Stats is worked out from the sessions saved in this browser, including the one in progress. The tiles show the total repetitions, today's, the number of sessions (completed and interrupted), the total time and the average per session, the average repetitions per session, the current and longest run of days, the practice used most and how many targets were reached. The chart shows the repetitions of the last 14 days, 12 weeks (starting on Monday) or 12 months; periods before your first session are hatched as having no records, and Show the numbers lists them. By practice lists every practice with its sessions, repetitions and the day it was last used. Days follow your device's calendar, and a session past midnight is split between the two days.

10. Settings

• Appearance: High contrast (stronger colours and borders), the counter size (small, medium, large or extra large), the bead style, the count animation, Motion (follow the device, reduce or full) and the language (English, Hindi, Spanish or the device's). Light and dark come from the site's theme button.
• Counting: the default mode, target and round for new sessions (0 means none), the signals when a round is complete, milestone messages, the message when a target is reached, how often a screen reader hears the count, and Keep the screen on while counting.
• Sound and vibration: a soft click or chime on each count, a completion sound, the volume with a Test button, and vibration on each count.
• Keyboard: the count key, described below.
• Your data: backups, the spreadsheet file and deleting, described below.

Changes apply at once. A practice can set its own mode, sound and vibration, which then win over the defaults.

11. Keyboard, Page Turners and Accessibility

Space counts by default. Settings, Keyboard, Change waits for the key you press next; Escape cancels and Use Space goes back. Page Down, sent by most page turners and presentation clickers, works well. Keys the browser needs (Tab, Escape, F5, F11, F12 and the like) and keys held with Ctrl, Alt or the Windows or Command key cannot be chosen. The count key works while the counter is on screen, once you have tapped or clicked in the tool, and never while you type in a box. Ctrl+Z undoes, the keys 1 to 5 switch between the five tabs, and Escape closes a window. With Space or Enter on another button reached with Tab, that button is pressed as usual.

The circle is one large button with its count read out by screen readers; Settings chooses whether the count is announced every count, every 10, every 100 or only at rounds and targets (rounds, milestones and targets are always announced). The tabs follow the usual pattern: the arrow keys move between them. With reduced motion (on the device or under Settings) the sliding, fading and glow are turned off.

12. Backups, Spreadsheets and Deleting

• Export backup (JSON) saves everything: settings, practices, History and the session on the counter.
• Export history (CSV) saves one row per session for a spreadsheet, with the column names in the counter's language. Text that starts like a formula (with =, +, - or @) gets a leading apostrophe so it stays plain text.
• Restore from backup reads a backup file (up to 5 MB) and says how many sessions and practices it holds. Add to my data keeps everything here and adds what is not here yet; Replace my data asks, then uses the file instead. Export my current data first is one tap away. Every value in the file is checked before it is used, and anything that cannot be read is skipped and counted.
• Delete session history removes History and keeps practices, settings and the session on the counter. Reset all app data removes everything this tool saved in this browser and starts again with the example practices. Neither can be undone, so export a backup first.

13. Limits

• Count: up to 999,999,999. Target: up to 10,000,000. Round: up to 10,000.
• History: up to 5,000 sessions. Practices: up to 200.
• Practice name: 80 characters; description: 300; category: 40; notes: 2,000; message at the target: 160.
• Backup files: up to 5 MB.
• Saved data is checked value by value each time the page opens; anything the tool itself would not write is left out or set aside.

14. Privacy and Your Data

Your counts, practices, notes and settings stay in this browser on this device, under names that start with prayer-counter-; there is no upload and no account, and the tool asks no outside service for anything. Nothing is saved until you first count or change something. This browser's storage is not encrypted, so anyone who uses the same browser profile can see it, and clearing the site's data in the browser deletes it. Like every page on ZeroDataUpload, the page shows ads through Google AdSense and counts visits with Google Analytics; the Privacy Policy explains both.

15. How It Was Checked

Before publishing, the tool's counting and numbers were compared with a separate program written from the rules on this page: 110,586 cases in 13 groups, among them long random sequences of counts, undos, resets and changes of target, round and mode, the timer through pauses, sleep and reloads, sessions saved as completed, finished and interrupted, days and runs of days over many months in several time zones (with summer time changes), the charts by day, week and month, the History filters, the spreadsheet file read back by a separate reader, backup files made to break the tool, and texts cut without splitting an emoji. The page itself was then tested in a browser on phones and computers in both themes, with long and hostile names and notes, blocked storage, the keyboard and all three languages. The original version took a saved day split that fell years outside its session and a timed length of years, kept the timer running after the first count was undone, and saved data on a first visit; that is fixed.

16. Troubleshooting and Support

• Space scrolls the page instead of counting. Tap or click in the tool first, and make sure the counter is on screen and no box has the focus.
• The timer stopped by itself. The page was closed or the device slept for more than a minute and a half. Press Resume timer, or simply count again.
• No sound. Turn on a count sound or the completion sound under Settings and press Test; some phones play no page sounds in silent mode.
• No vibration. Many computers and some phones and browsers cannot vibrate; the setting then says so.
• My history is gone. It is kept per browser and device; a private window or cleared site data starts afresh. Restore a backup if you have one.
• Finish says History is full. It holds 5,000 sessions. Export a backup, then delete old sessions or the whole history.

For questions the FAQ does not answer, use the contact form.