A free naam jaap counter, and a planner to go with it.
Two small tools built for one job each: counting your jaap, and planning how much jaap a vow actually needs. No sign-up, no tracking of your data.
Naam Jaap Counter
LiveA digital mala for daily chanting. Tap once per repetition, or once per mala, and the counter keeps your daily count, running total, target progress and streak. It works on any phone or desktop and saves progress in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and no account is needed.
Jaap Target Calculator
FreePlan a sankalpa before you take it. Enter a target such as 1.25 lakh or 1 crore, your mala size and how many malas you can do a day, and see the total malas, the number of days, the daily time and the finish date.
Jap, jaap or japa: one word, three spellings
People search for this tool under several names: jaap counter, naam jap counter, naam japa counter, or simply a counter for naam jap. They are all the same thing. The Hindi and Sanskrit word is जप, which is transliterated jap in everyday Hindi, jaap when writers want to show the long vowel, and japa in the Sanskrit form used in most English books. We use "jaap" on this site, and the counter itself is at naamjapcounter.toolstackweb.com whichever spelling you arrived with.
How a digital counter fits a traditional practice
A physical mala is still the best instrument for seated jaap: the beads keep the hands occupied and the count moves without thought. A counter earns its place in two situations. The first is chanting away from the puja room, on a commute or during a walk, where a mala is awkward. The second is long sankalpas, where the number that matters is the cumulative total across weeks and months, and memory alone is unreliable.
The usual pattern is to keep the mala for the morning session and log the malas completed into the counter afterwards, then use the counter directly for any extra jaap during the day. Our guide to using a digital jaap counter goes through this routine in detail, and how to do naam jaap correctly covers posture, pace and the mala hand.
Privacy
Both tools run in your browser. Counts and settings are stored in your device's local storage and are never sent to us. Clearing your browser data will clear the counter, so if you are keeping a long ledger, note your total somewhere else once a week.
Suggest a tool
We build tools only when there is a clear need in daily practice. If something would genuinely help your sadhana, write to us and describe how you would use it.