Tally
Quick counting, scorekeeping, and habit tracking app

- What is Tally?
- Where do I get Tally?
- What’s new in Tally?
- Tally Pro
- Screenshots
- Tally on Apple Watch
- Automating Tally
- FAQ
What is Tally?
Tally is the quick, easy way to keep track of any sort of counts. Habit tracking, scorekeeping, attendance…anything else you keep up with. Tally’s gesture-based interface keeps your eyes free while counting.
Features include:
- Easy gesture support. Tap to count up, swipe down to count down.
- Great Apple Watch support, including watch face complications.
- Unlimited tallies and tally sets.
- Each tally can count up or down, and have a “step” increment – to count by twos, fives, tens.
- Each tally can have an option “target” value, enabling progress tracking.
- Visual, audio, and haptic feedback for counts.
- Quick reset to starting values, for individual tallies or whole tally sets.
- Extensive Shortcuts support.
- Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets to keep tabs on your tallies.
- Live Activities to pin a tally to your Lock Screen.
Where do I get Tally?
Tally is available for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch in the App Store:
What’s new in Tally?
Visit the release notes for details about updates.
Tally Pro
Tally is always free to use, but you can get more out of Tally with a Tally Pro subscription:
- Unlimited tally sets.
- Apple Watch support.
- Customize accent colors and app icons.
- Select from multiple sound sets.
- Advanced automation with Shortcuts.
Tally Pro is available in-app for only $2.99 USD per year.
Purchase an unlock in previous versions of Tally? All your features are still available! Details in FAQ
Screenshots
Tally on Apple Watch
Tally Pro users can also take advantage of Tally on Apple Watch. The Apple Watch companion app features include:
- Sync specified tally sets between the Watch and a paired iPhone.
- Incremen, decrement, reset, and rename tallies.
- Add tallies to a set.
- Complications to display tallies and tally sets on your watch face.
At this time, the iPhone version is still required to do tally set creation, and to control more advanced tally options.
Automating Tally
Automating Tally with Shortcuts
Tally offers a full suite of actions for Apple’s Shortcuts app on both iOS and macOS. Shortcuts can be used to increment, decrement, and reset tallies – but can also be used to create tallies and tally sets.
Install the below example to get started:
- Tally - New Scoreboard: Example shortcut that prompts for the name of the game, and a list of players, then creates and opens a new ready-to-use tally set to score the game in Tally.
- Display and Reset: Builds a list of current values in a tally set, displays it, then resets the tally set to default values. Meant to demonstrate how you might extract current values, then reset, a daily tracker set or similar.
Automating Tally with URLs
Tally registers the URL scheme tally
, and supports the actions described below. All of these support x-callback-url
callback parameters.
Supported URLs
- /open
- Opens a specific tally or tally set. Tallies can be specified by either ID or parameters or by name with options below.
- Parameters
tallySetID
[optional]: UUID of tally settallyID
[optional]: UUID of a tally within the settallySet
[optional]: Name of a tally settally
[optional]: Name of a tally within above set
- Example
tally://open?tallySet=MY-TALLY-SET
- /get
- Gets the current value of a specified tally. Tallies can be specified by either ID or parameters or by name with options below.
x-success
callback URL required. - Parameters
tallySetID
[optional]: UUID of tally settallyID
[optional]: UUID of a tally within the settallySet
[optional]: Name of a tally settally
[optional]: Name of a tally within above setretParam
[optiona]: By default, thex-success
callback will get the current value added as avalue
query argument. Use this parameter to specify an alternate name for the argument.
- Example
tally://get?tallySet=TALLY-SET-NAME&tally=TALLY-NAME&x-success=CALLBACK-URL
- Gets the current value of a specified tally. Tallies can be specified by either ID or parameters or by name with options below.
- /increment
- Increase count of specified tally. Tallies can be specified by either ID or parameters or by name with options below.
- Parameters
tallySetID
[optional]: UUID of tally settallyID
[optional]: UUID of a tally within the settallySet
[optional]: Name of a tally settally
[optional]: Name of a tally within above set
- Example
tally://increment?tallySet=TALLY-SET-NAME&tally=TALLY-NAME
- /decrement
- Decrease count of specified tally. Tallies can be specified by either ID or parameters or by name with options below.
- Parameters
tallySetID
[optional]: UUID of tally settallyID
[optional]: UUID of a tally within the settallySet
[optional]: Name of a tally settally
[optional]: Name of a tally within above set
- Example
tally://increment?tallySet=TALLY-SET-NAME&tally=TALLY-NAME
- /reset
- Reset specified tally to its initial value. Tallies can be specified by either ID or parameters or by name with options below.
- Parameters
tallySetID
[optional]: UUID of tally settallyID
[optional]: UUID of a tally within the settallySet
[optional]: Name of a tally settally
[optional]: Name of a tally within above set
- Example
tally://increment?tallySet=TALLY-SET-NAME&tally=TALLY-NAME
FAQ
Does Tally sync? (Short answer: No)
No. Tally is intended for simple, personal counting activities, and it does not offer sync across devices at this time. Specified tally sets can be synced between iPhone and a paired Apple Watch, but Tally does not sync across iOS devices at this time.
How do I disable sound, haptics, or screen flash?
These settings are available in the Settings screen (gear icon below tally list) or in counting options on the counting screen (“…” button at top right).
Can I use Tally Pro on multiple platforms?
Tally Pro is a Universal purchase. If you purchase Tally Pro, you can “Restore Purchases” on all of your iPhones and iPads devices to unlock features without any additional purchase. Tally Pro also supports Family Sharing, so all members of your family group can also share your Pro features!
I paid to unlock Tally some time ago. Do I still need Tally Pro?
The features offered by Tally Pro were not available in previous iterations of Tally. You are welcome to continue to use Tally without the Tally Pro subscription, and you will have access to all the feature you did previous to this upgrade. You may also use the “Restore Purchases” option if prompted and use your previous unlock purchase to unlock themes and alternate app icons without the need to enable a Tally Pro subscription.
The $2.99 USD per year Tally Pro subscription we hope will allow us to continue to update and support the app moving forward.