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Franciscan Crown Rosary Counter
A Franciscan Crown counter keeps your place in the seven-decade Franciscan rosary: seven joys of Mary, each one Our Father and ten Hail Marys, then two Hail Marys to make 72. This one follows your card, with or without the Pope's prayers, the 1968 list of joys, or the seven sorrows in Lent.
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Saturdays were the 1910 Raccolta’s day for the crown
- Crowns prayed
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- Crowns today
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- Decades in all
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- Hail Marys
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- Last crown
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- Average crown
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Match your card
Space, Enter or + moves on one prayer, so you can pray with your eyes closed; Ctrl+Z goes back one. Keys do nothing while a field has focus, and a held key moves on once. Changing a setting mid-crown keeps your place.
Tap once per prayer, or press Space with your eyes closed. The screen names each joy and its Scripture, keeps your place between decades said through the day, and lights the day of the week when a crown is done.
The Franciscan Crown, also the Seraphic Rosary or Rosary of the Seven Joys, is a Catholic rosary of seven decades, one for each of the seven joys of Mary from the Annunciation to the Assumption, followed by two Hail Marys for the 72 years Franciscan tradition gives her on earth. It dates, by the Franciscan historian Luke Wadding’s account, from 1422.
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Key facts
| Detail | Answer |
|---|---|
| Price | Free, no sign-up, no ads |
| What one tap does | Moves on one prayer: an Our Father, a Hail Mary, the opening or the end |
| Forms | The Raccolta, prayers for the Pope, EWTN, Liverpool 2026 or Aleteia, or your own |
| Mysteries | The seven joys, the 1968 list, the seven sorrows, or the sorrows in Lent only |
| Prayers in one crown | 7 Our Fathers and 72 Hail Marys: 79 taps in the Raccolta form, 79 to 92 in all |
| On screen | The joy, its Scripture, the prayer, the bead, and today's day |
| Through the day | Decades said apart keep their place; an open crown names the day it was begun |
| Totals | Crowns prayed, crowns today, decades, Hail Marys, and a week row |
| Keyboard | Space, Enter or + moves on; Ctrl+Z goes back |
| Where your place is kept | This browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere |
How to use the Franciscan Crown counter
Match the form and the mysteries to your card once, then tap a prayer at a time.
Match your card
Open Match your card and pick the form; the Raccolta’s seven decades and two is the default. Change any single choice if your card differs.
Choose the mysteries
The seven joys as most cards print them, the 1968 list, the seven sorrows, or By the season for the sorrows in Lent.
Begin with the first joy
Make the Sign of the Cross, announce the Annunciation, say the Our Father and tap Next prayer, or press Space, Enter or +.
Tap after each Hail Mary
Ten to a decade; the tenth counts the decade and the board announces the next joy and its Scripture.
Stop and come back
Say a decade or two and close the page; the place is kept, and the day line says if the crown was begun on another day.
Finish with the two
Two Hail Marys make 72, then the Pope’s prayers if your card has them; the last tap counts the crown.
Who uses a Franciscan Crown counter
Anyone praying the seven-decade Franciscan rosary who wants the place kept, with or without crown beads.
Secular Franciscans
Members of the Third Order and the Franciscan family praying the crown daily, with their own card's form.
The Year of St Francis
Parishes praying the crown for the 2026 Jubilee, with the joy and the prayer on one screen.
Praying on a five-decade rosary
Seventy-two Hail Marys do not fit five decades of beads; the counter keeps the two extra decades straight.
A decade at a time
The 1910 Raccolta lets single decades be said through the day; the place is kept between visits.
Lent
The seven sorrows in place of the joys, from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, chosen by the date.
Leading a group
The joy, its Scripture and the prayer on one screen, for whoever leads.
Praying with eyes closed
Space or Enter moves on from anywhere on the page, and vibration marks each decade.
Learning the joys
Each joy is announced in turn with its Gospel passage, so the order is learned by praying it.
Which seven joys: the Raccolta, the cards, 1968 and Lent
This counter keeps your place and counts the prayers. It does not judge private revelation, or whether an indulgence applies to anyone; that is set out below. What it does do is follow the card in your hand, because the cards in circulation do not agree on which seven mysteries the crown’s decades honour.
Every form has the same frame: seven decades, each one Our Father and ten Hail Marys, one decade for each joy of Mary, and two more Hail Marys after the seventh. The joys themselves come in three lists, and Franciscans keep a fourth set for Lent:
| Decade | The Raccolta, 1910, no. 223 | Most cards today | EWTN, “since 1968” | In Lent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Annunciation | The Annunciation | The Annunciation | The prophecy of Simeon |
| 2 | The Visitation | The Visitation | The Visitation | The flight into Egypt |
| 3 | The Nativity | The Nativity | The Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi | The loss of the Child Jesus for three days |
| 4 | The Adoration of the Magi | The Adoration of the Magi | The Presentation of Jesus and the Purification of Mary | Mary meets Jesus carrying the cross |
| 5 | The Finding in the Temple | The Finding in the Temple | The Finding in the Temple | The crucifixion |
| 6 | The Resurrection | The Resurrection, or Jesus appearing to Mary after it | The Resurrection | Jesus taken down from the cross into Mary’s arms |
| 7 | The Assumption | The Assumption and Coronation | The Assumption | Jesus laid in the tomb |
Three differences, then. The Raccolta of 1910, the Church’s collection of indulgenced prayers, ends with the Assumption alone, as does EWTN; the cards from the Secular Franciscans USA and the Archdiocese of Liverpool join the Coronation to it, and Wikipedia gives “either or both”. EWTN’s page, from Ann Ball’s writing, says that “since 1968” it has become customary to join the former third and fourth mysteries and to give the fourth decade to the Presentation and the Purification; it does not say who made the change, and no other source read mentions it. And the Secular Franciscans USA leaflet says that during Lent Franciscans pray the seven sorrows of Mary instead of the joys, on the same seven decades; Rugged Rosaries says that some do so in penitential seasons. The sixth joy is told two ways: the Resurrection, or, on the Secular Franciscan card, the risen Jesus appearing to his mother, which no Gospel records and tradition supplies.
The counter’s Mysteries setting announces whichever list your card prints. By the season uses the joys, and the sorrows from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, computed from the date of Easter for the day the crown was begun on, so a crown begun on the evening before Ash Wednesday stays joyful past midnight:
| Year | Ash Wednesday | Holy Saturday | Easter Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 10 February | 27 March | 28 March |
| 2028 | 1 March | 15 April | 16 April |
| 2029 | 14 February | 31 March | 1 April |
| 2030 | 6 March | 20 April | 21 April |
The Lenten crown is not the Seven Sorrows rosary of the Servites, though it honours the same seven sorrows: that chaplet says seven Hail Marys for each sorrow and three for Mary’s tears, 52 in all, where the crown keeps its ten and its two, 72. Sources: The Raccolta, Burns & Oates edition (1910), no. 223, read on archive.org; EWTN, Franciscan Crown Rosary; Secular Franciscans USA, joys and sorrows; Wikipedia, Franciscan Crown; all read 2026-10-17.
How many Hail Marys: 72, 73, and every form counted
“How many Hail Marys in the Franciscan Crown” has a standard answer, 72: seventy in the seven decades and two after them. Many cards then add an Our Father and a Hail Mary for the Pope’s intentions, which makes 73; Rugged Rosaries’ guide puts the two and the Pope’s pair on the four beads nearest the crucifix, so on a crown they are prayed where an ordinary rosary’s opening is. Five printed forms were read for this page; the counter takes one tap a prayer, so its taps are the prayers:
| Form | Our Fathers | Hail Marys | Other prayers | Taps on this counter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Raccolta, 1910; Wikipedia; Catholic Encyclopedia | 7 | 72 | 0 | 79 |
| With prayers for the Pope (Rugged Rosaries, rosaryshop.com) | 8 | 73 | 0 | 81 |
| EWTN: the Creed, and prayers for the Pope | 8 | 73 | 1 | 82 |
| Archdiocese of Liverpool, 2026 | 8 | 73 | 1 | 82 |
| Aleteia, 2025 | 7 | 72 | 10 | 89 |
| Seven Sorrows rosary, the Raccolta’s form | 7 | 52 | 2 | 61 |
| Bridgettine chaplet, the Raccolta, 1910, no. 181 | 7 | 63 | 6 | 76 |
| A five-decade rosary | 6 | 53 | 13 | 72 |
“Other prayers” are the Creed in EWTN’s form; the Glory Be the Liverpool leaflet adds to the Pope’s Our Father and Hail Mary; and in Aleteia’s, “O God, come to my assistance” with a Glory Be to open, a Glory Be after each decade and a closing prayer. The Sign of the Cross, which every form begins with, takes no tap. A Glory Be after each decade, which friarmusings calls common practice, adds seven taps to any form; everything on is 92, the least is 79. The other rosaries’ rows are explained on the Seven Sorrows and rosary counters and in the next section.
So the crown is about a third longer than a five-decade rosary in Hail Marys, 72 against 53, and has no Creed or Fatima Prayer in its oldest form. None of the sources read gives a time for it, so the counter times yours, leaving out any pause over five minutes, and averages your last ten. A decade counts at its tenth Hail Mary, and Decades in all keeps the running total across crowns.
Why 72: the Franciscan years and the Bridgettine 63
The two Hail Marys after the seventh decade are there to make the number 72, “the number of years that Our Lady is said by Franciscans to have lived on earth”, as EWTN puts it; the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1908 gives the same reason. EWTN adds that the crown was first seventy Hail Marys and that the two were added later. The figure is a tradition, not a date: Scripture records neither Mary’s birth nor her death, and the Church defined her Assumption in 1950 without saying when or at what age it took place.
Another tradition gives another number, and the same book printed both. The Raccolta, which carries the Franciscan Crown as no. 223, carries the Bridgettine chaplet as no. 181, “said in honour of the sixty-three years which, it is said, the most holy Mary lived on earth”:
| Chaplet | How it is made up | Hail Marys | Years it honours |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Franciscan Crown | Seven decades of an Our Father and ten Hail Marys, then two Hail Marys | 72 | 72, “said by Franciscans” (EWTN) |
| The crown before the two were added | Seven decades | 70 | None; seven decades for seven joys |
| The Bridgettine chaplet | Six decades of an Our Father, ten Hail Marys and the Creed, then an Our Father and three Hail Marys | 63 | 63, “it is said” (the Raccolta, 1910) |
The Raccolta’s account of the Bridgettine chaplet also explains its seven Our Fathers: they mark “the number of Seven Dolours and Seven Joys”, the same sevens the Franciscan Crown is built on. Its 1857 English edition says simply that Mary “lived upon this earth” sixty-three years; the 1910 edition adds “it is said”. Neither number is a teaching of the Church, and a counter cannot settle it: what it can do is make sure the two Hail Marys are said, since they are the ones most easily lost after the seventh decade, and the board names them as the two that make 72. Sources: The Raccolta, tr. Ambrose St John (1857) and Burns & Oates (1910), nos. 181 and 223, read on archive.org; EWTN; Catholic Encyclopedia, Franciscan Crown; all read 2026-10-17.
A decade at a time: the crown through the day
The crown does not have to be prayed at one sitting. The 1910 Raccolta, under its grants for the crown, notes that “single decades may be said separately during the course of the day”, and rosaryshop.com’s guide says the same: the decades “need not be recited at once”, so long as the whole is said on the same day. That is the one thing a string of beads cannot do for you: it does not remember where you stopped at lunchtime.
| Situation | What the counter does |
|---|---|
| Two decades in the morning, the rest later | Keeps the place in this browser between visits, on the next prayer, with the joy announced |
| A crown still open on a later day | The day line says which day it was begun on, so you can finish it or start again |
| A crown begun late and finished after midnight | Counts for the day it was begun on, in the week row and for the Lenten sorrows |
| A Saturday | Says so: the 1910 Raccolta’s monthly grant was for the crown said every Saturday |
| 3 and 4 October | Names the Transitus, St Francis’s death in 1226, and his feast |
| Lent | Says that Franciscans pray the sorrows, and until when |
The week row has seven dots, Monday first, and lights a day when a crown begun on it is finished, so a week of Saturdays shows one lit dot a week. Start this crown again returns to the first decade and keeps every prayer already counted; Undo steps back one prayer at a time, and also brings back a reset made by mistake.
1422 to the Year of St Francis: what the record shows
The usual story is told the same way in most sources, with one detail that varies. A young man who used to crown a statue of Mary with flowers entered the Franciscan novitiate and could no longer do so; Mary appeared to him and asked instead for a crown of prayers, seven decades of Hail Marys for her seven joys. EWTN’s version adds that his novice master saw an angel weaving a wreath of roses as he prayed, with a golden lily after every tenth. Most English sources now call the novice James; the 1908 Catholic Encyclopedia and EWTN do not name him.
| Date | What happened | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1422 | The novice’s vision, and the crown’s beginning in the Franciscan Order | Luke Wadding (1588-1657), the Order’s historian, as the Catholic Encyclopedia cites him |
| 1905 | Pius X adds new indulgences open to all the faithful, at the request of the Friars Minor’s procurator general | Catholic Encyclopedia; the Raccolta, 1910, no. 223 |
| 1910 | The crown is printed among the Church’s indulgenced prayers, with its seven joys and the note on single decades | The Raccolta, Burns & Oates edition |
| 20th century | A profession of faith, such as the Apostles’ Creed, becomes customary before it | EWTN |
| 1968 | The Nativity and the Magi joined in one decade; the Presentation and Purification given the fourth | EWTN, “since 1968”; no other source read |
| 3 October 2026 | Eight hundred years since the death of St Francis on 3 October 1226 | The 2026 decree |
| 10 January 2026 to 10 January 2027 | The Year of St Francis, with a plenary indulgence; the Archdiocese of Liverpool’s parishes pray the crown for it | Apostolic Penitentiary; Liverpool’s leaflet |
Two cautions about the dates. Wadding was writing two centuries after 1422, so the year is his tradition, not a contemporary record; the Catholic Encyclopedia says only that the crown “dates back” to it on his authority. And at least one Franciscan blog post gives 1422 and, a paragraph later, 1442 for the same vision; 1422 is the date Wadding is cited for. The Year of St Francis decree, given on 10 January 2026 and signed by Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the Major Penitentiary, asks for a pilgrimage to a Franciscan church or a place connected with St Francis, closing with the Our Father, the Creed and invocations of Our Lady, St Francis, St Clare and the Franciscan saints; it does not name the crown. Sources: Catholic Encyclopedia; Holy See Press Office, 16 January 2026; the Archdiocese of Liverpool’s Franciscan rosary leaflet (2026); all read 2026-10-17.
Indulgences: what the counter cannot tell you
The counter records which button was pressed. Nothing on this page can tell you whether an indulgence applies to anyone; that is a question for a priest. What the page can do is set the old grants beside what the Church has decided since, because rosaryshop.com still calls the crown “the most highly indulgenced of all the types of rosaries”, which was true of the books it came from.
| The Raccolta, 1910, no. 223 | Since 1967 and 1968 |
|---|---|
| 70 years and 70 quarantines, on any day; 300 years on other feasts of Our Lady; 200 years on holy days | Indulgences are no longer measured in days or years (Indulgentiarum Doctrina, 1967, norm 4); a partial indulgence is simply “partial” |
| Plenary on the feasts of the Seven Joys and the greater feasts of Our Lady; once a month for saying it every Saturday | The 1968 Enchiridion Indulgentiarum replaced the earlier grants |
| Those who join a public recitation in Franciscan churches gain the indulgences of the Order’s members | The same: the earlier grants, the Order’s included, were replaced |
| Only on beads blessed by the Franciscan Minister General, or a priest he authorises | The Enchiridion has a general grant for using a properly blessed object of devotion |
Beads are a help, not a requirement, for the prayer itself: the Catholic Encyclopedia noted even in 1908 that its plenary indulgence was attached to the prayers, not to the beads, and Aleteia says an ordinary rosary can be used. The 2026 Jubilee indulgence has its own conditions, set out in the decree and summarised above. None of this makes the crown less of a prayer; the counter keeps your place whichever card you were given. Sources: the Raccolta and Catholic Encyclopedia above; Wikipedia, Indulgentiarum Doctrina; rosaryshop.com; all read 2026-10-17.
Online counter vs a clicker, an app, paper and a spreadsheet
Every counting method trades something away. This is what each one actually costs you.
| Feature | This online counter | Handheld clicker | Counter phone app | Pen and paper | Spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | $5–$15 | Free with ads, or paid | Cost of paper | Subscription |
| Anything to install | No | Buy the device | App store download | No | Yes, or a web login |
| Several counts at once | Unlimited | One per device | Usually limited | Yes, messy | Yes |
| Fix a miscount | Undo and redo | Start over | Sometimes | Cross it out | Edit the cell |
| Counts by more than one | Any step size | One at a time | Sometimes | Manual maths | Yes |
| Below zero | Yes | No | Rarely | Yes | Yes |
| Keeps the count if you close it | Saves automatically | Until you reset the dial | Yes | If you keep the paper | Yes |
| Works with no signal | Yes, after first load | Yes | Yes | Yes | Often not |
| Keyboard and shortcuts | Full | None | None | None | Partial |
| Sends your data anywhere | Never | Never | Often, for accounts and ads | Never | Yes, to the cloud |
Other counter types
The same counter, set up and explained for a specific job. Your counters are shared across all of them.
Everyday7
The general-purpose counters: one number, many numbers, or counting on a timer.
Online counter
The all-purpose counter. Any step size, any number of counters, negative values allowed.
Open online counter →Tally counter
Tally marks in groups of five for surveys, stock takes and wildlife counts.
Open tally counter →Click counter
A browser clicker that replaces the handheld thumb counter for door headcounts.
Open click counter →Multi counter
Run as many counters as you like at once, side by side in a grid.
Open multi counter →Auto counter
Counts on its own from every 0.1 seconds to once an hour, and stops at your limit.
Open auto counter →Yes/No counter
Two options, a live percentage, and the sample size and caveats the percentage needs.
Open yes/no counter →Sticker album counter
Stickers you have and spares to swap, missing lists to copy, and the packs still to go from your count.
Open sticker album counter →
Sport & scores44
Scoreboards that know the rules of their game, not just two numbers that go up.
Score counter
A scoreboard for cards, darts and board games. One counter per player, negatives allowed.
Open score counter →Pitch counter
Count pitches, then get the rest days owed and the next eligible date.
Open pitch counter →Golf scorecard
Strokes per hole with the course handicap allocated by stroke index, net and Stableford.
Open golf scorecard →Badminton score counter
Rally scoring with the service court and doubles positions, for 3x21 and the 2027 3x15 system.
Open badminton score counter →Pickleball score counter
The 0-0-2 call with the right server and side, in side-out or 2026 rally scoring.
Open pickleball score counter →Squash score counter
Point-a-rally to 11 with the server, the service box, hand out and lets.
Open squash score counter →Penalty shootout counter
Five kicks each that stop the moment a team cannot catch up, then sudden death.
Open penalty shootout counter →Basketball score counter
Points by period with team fouls and the bonus as FIBA, NBA, NCAA or high school count them.
Open basketball score counter →Baseball score counter
Balls, strikes, outs and the line score, with foul bunts, dropped third strikes and walk-offs.
Open baseball score counter →Cricket score counter
Runs, wickets and overs by legal balls, with wides, no-balls, free hits and the chase.
Open cricket score counter →American football score counter
Touchdowns and the try at each level, with NFL, college and high school overtime rules.
Open american football score counter →Boxing score counter
Three judges' 10-point must cards and the verdict they give, split and majority draws included.
Open boxing score counter →Hockey score counter
Ice hockey goals and shots by period, with each league's overtime, shootout and standings points.
Open hockey score counter →Pool score counter
Straight pool with the breaking foul and three-foul penalties, and 8-ball, 9-ball and 10-ball races.
Open pool score counter →Rugby score counter
Union, sevens and league points, conversions tied to tries, golden point and bonus points.
Open rugby score counter →Soccer score counter
Goals by minute, five subs in three windows, second yellows, extra time and aggregate.
Open soccer score counter →Table tennis score counter
Games to 11 with the server named, doubles order, the swap at 5 and the expedite system.
Open table tennis score counter →Tennis score counter
Love to game with the server's court, every change of ends, tie-breaks and doubles order.
Open tennis score counter →Padel score counter
The 2026 Star Point, golden point or advantage, who serves and receives, and every change of sides.
Open padel score counter →Volleyball score counter
Rally scoring with the six-position rotation, the next server, time-outs, subs and beach mode.
Open volleyball score counter →Americano padel score counter
Rotating partners for 4 to 16 players, matches to a points total, and every player's running total.
Open americano padel score counter →Field hockey score counter
Goals by minute, a clock that stops, card timers in playing time, the 2026 card rules and shoot-outs.
Open field hockey score counter →Free throw counter
Make or miss, the percentage with its likely range, runs of makes, sets and make-50 goals.
Open free throw counter →Futsal score counter
Accumulated fouls per half with the 10 m kick, timeouts, a stopped clock and the red card timer.
Open futsal score counter →Handball score counter
2-minute suspensions a goal does not end, the third a red card, three warnings and team time-outs.
Open handball score counter →Judo score counter
The 2026 IJF rules: yuko back, a hold timer that scores itself, shido that never decide, golden score.
Open judo score counter →Kabaddi score counter
Players on court kept for you: revival in order, all outs, the bonus line, super tackle, do-or-die.
Open kabaddi score counter →Karate score counter
WKF kumite 2026: senshu kept for you and lost in the last 15 s, the 8-point lead, chui to hansoku.
Open karate score counter →Lacrosse score counter
Penalty timers that know which one a goal releases, by code: high school, NCAA, PLL, box and sixes.
Open lacrosse score counter →Netball score counter
Whose centre pass is next, kept through every break, plus the Super Shot and extra time.
Open netball score counter →Roundnet score counter
Who serves to whom under the 2026 IRF equal serving or the classic rules, with every rotation.
Open roundnet score counter →Cornhole score counter
Cancellation scoring bag by bag, who pitches first next round, ACO Skins and house-rule busts.
Open cornhole score counter →Water polo score counter
Exclusions a goal or the ball won ends early, personal fouls by cap, the possession clock, shootout.
Open water polo score counter →Wrestling score counter
Folkstyle, freestyle or Greco: 3-point takedowns, riding time, the technical fall, overtime, criteria.
Open wrestling score counter →Curling score counter
Points by end, the hammer next end, the mixed doubles decision, and the club scoreboard drawn for you.
Open curling score counter →Fencing score counter
Hits on a bout clock in fencing time, the priority minute, cards by group and the 2026-27 P-cards.
Open fencing score counter →Gaelic football score counter
Goals, two-pointers and points by the 2026 rules, a 45 valued by code, extra time, and the scorers line.
Open gaelic football score counter →Spades score counter
Bids and tricks per player, bags to the bag-out, nil and blind nil, and the disputed house rules as settings.
Open spades score counter →Taekwondo score counter
WT kyorugi 2026: 6 for a turning head kick, best of three rounds, the 15-point gap and the round tiebreak.
Open taekwondo score counter →Cribbage board counter
A peg board for 2, 3 or 4: the play, then each hand in counting order to 121 or 61, with skunks and muggins.
Open cribbage board counter →Euchre score counter
Who called, alone or not, and the tricks: loners, euchres and the disputed house rules, plus a progressive tally.
Open euchre score counter →500 score counter
The bid and the tricks, scored by the Avondale table: misère, slams and how a game is won as settings.
Open 500 score counter →Gin rummy score counter
Who went down and both deadwood counts: undercuts, gin, boxes and shutouts, plus Hollywood and Oklahoma.
Open gin rummy score counter →Hearts score counter
Hearts and the queen per hand, refused until it adds to 26: five moon rules, the jack of diamonds, Black Maria.
Open hearts score counter →
Fitness & health7
Reps, laps, breaths and daily habits, where the count is part of the activity.
Lap counter
Count pool lengths, track laps and treadmill intervals without losing your place.
Open lap counter →Rep counter
Track reps and sets during a lifting session, with a step size for supersets.
Open rep counter →Click speed test
Measure your clicks per second over 1 to 60 seconds, with your personal best kept on-device.
Open click speed test →Habit counter
Count toward a daily target and keep the streak, with a day boundary you choose.
Open habit counter →Breath counter
Count breaths one to ten for meditation, with lost count recorded, or time breaths per minute.
Open breath counter →Craving tracker
Time each urge, rate it 1 to 10, and log whether you rode it out or acted on it.
Open craving tracker →Water intake counter
Drinks logged in ml or oz by the cup you used, against a goal or a fluid limit, paced over your day.
Open water intake counter →
Work & field5
Counting that produces a record someone else relies on: stock, occupancy, lab work.
Differential counter
Six keys for a manual white cell differential, with an auto-stop and live percentages.
Open differential counter →People counter
In and out at a door, with live occupancy against a capacity and a fix for drift.
Open people counter →Bird counter
A row per species recording the high count, so a circling flock is not counted twice.
Open bird counter →Inventory counter
A count sheet holding the book quantity beside the counted one, with the variance per line.
Open inventory counter →Knitting counter
Rows, pattern repeats and a shaping schedule that names the increase rows and then ends.
Open knitting counter →
Faith8
Counts with their own rules about when a day turns over and what completes a set.
Tasbeeh counter
A digital dhikr counter that stops at 33, 99 or 100 and keeps each dhikr separate.
Open tasbeeh counter →Omer counter
The 49 days of Sefirat HaOmer, in days and weeks, with the blessing state tracked.
Open omer counter →Mala counter
108 beads to a round, credited as 100 or 108, with dorje and bell counter strings and a bell.
Open mala counter →Rosary counter
Prayer by prayer through the decades, with the day's mysteries by the 2002 or the older schedule.
Open rosary counter →Divine Mercy chaplet counter
The chaplet in Diary 476's order, a tap a prayer, with the novena from Good Friday kept day by day.
Open divine mercy chaplet counter →St Michael chaplet counter
The nine salutations in the Raccolta's order, a tap a prayer, with the Michaelmas novena kept.
Open st michael chaplet counter →Prayer rope counter
A knot a tap on any chotki, services in Jesus Prayers, and the Optina 500 with its prostrations.
Open prayer rope counter →Seven Sorrows rosary counter
Seven sorrows of seven Hail Marys, a tap a prayer, the three for Mary's tears where your card puts them.
Open seven sorrows rosary counter →
Frequently asked questions
How do you pray the Franciscan Crown rosary?
Make the Sign of the Cross. For each of the seven joys of Mary, from the Annunciation to the Assumption, announce the joy and pray one Our Father and ten Hail Marys while thinking on it. After the seventh decade pray two more Hail Marys, making 72. Many cards end with an Our Father and a Hail Mary for the Pope’s intentions; some add a Glory Be after each decade.
How many Hail Marys are in the Franciscan Crown?
Seventy-two: ten in each of the seven decades and two more after the seventh, for the 72 years Franciscan tradition says Our Lady lived on earth. Cards that add a Hail Mary for the Pope’s intentions make it 73. There are seven Our Fathers, one before each decade, or eight with the Pope’s. The crown began as seventy, and the two were added later.
What are the seven joys of Mary in the Franciscan Crown?
The Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Adoration of the Magi, the Finding in the Temple, the Resurrection, and the Assumption, which most cards join with her Coronation. The 1910 Raccolta lists them in that order. EWTN gives a list used since 1968 that joins the Nativity and the Magi and makes the fourth joy the Presentation and Purification.
Why does the Franciscan Crown have 72 Hail Marys?
The two Hail Marys after the seventh decade bring seventy to 72, the number of years Our Lady is said by Franciscans to have lived on earth. It is a tradition, not a recorded fact: the Bridgettine chaplet, printed in the same Raccolta, is built on 63 years instead, with 63 Hail Marys. Scripture gives neither figure.
Do Franciscans pray the seven sorrows during Lent?
Many do. The Secular Franciscans USA leaflet says that during Lent Franciscans pray the seven sorrows of Mary instead of the seven joys, on the same seven decades of ten Hail Marys and two. That is still 72 Hail Marys, unlike the Servite Seven Sorrows rosary, which has seven Hail Marys a sorrow and 52 in all.
What is the difference between the Franciscan Crown and the rosary?
The Dominican rosary has five decades and meditates on mysteries of Christ’s life; the Franciscan Crown has seven decades and meditates on Mary’s seven joys. The crown has no Fatima Prayer and, in its oldest form, no Creed. It is longer: 72 Hail Marys against 53, or 73 with the Pope’s intentions.
Who started the Franciscan Crown?
Franciscan tradition traces it to 1422, the date given by the Order’s historian Luke Wadding: a novice, usually called James, who had crowned a statue of Mary with flowers was asked by her in a vision to offer a crown of seven decades of prayers instead. Pius X added indulgences to it in 1905.
Do you have to pray the Franciscan Crown all at once?
No. The 1910 Raccolta notes that single decades may be said separately during the course of the day, and rosaryshop.com’s guide says the whole is said on the same day. The counter keeps the place between visits, so a decade in the morning and the rest in the evening comes out as one crown.
Can you pray the Franciscan Crown on an ordinary rosary?
Yes. A crown of seven decades and two beads helps, but Aleteia notes that an existing rosary can be used, going round the five decades and then two more. The Catholic Encyclopedia already said in 1908 that its indulgence was attached to the prayers, not the beads. A counter does the same job without beads.
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Why the pattern matters, how many cells is enough, and the imprecision built into the method itself.
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- Surveys
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- Rules
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V and V3, the indicator, why the ranking is V/M and not wins, ties at the cut and the seeded table.
- Rules
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The running score, team fouls, time-outs and the new 2026 foul marks, DI, FL and the circled T.
- Rules
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Penalty-kick fouls stop counting, the dropped ball follows possession, and the 8-second rule is not futsal's.
- Rules
Futsal timekeeper and third referee
The stopped clock, the fifth-foul sign, the time-out slip, the two-minute entry slip and the eight signals from the table.
- Scorekeeping
How to write a GAA match report
The result line, the scorers line with 2pt, f and 45, what the brackets mean, team lists and subs, and how to check the sums.
- Rules
Handball timekeeper and scorekeeper
The clock, the suspension cards, the green card, the whistle that stops play, and the three attacks after an injury.
- Rules
Hockey rule changes from 1 November 2026
No second green or yellow, coaches' cards that cost a player, and what is not new since March.
- Rules
Netball scorer and timekeeper
The quarter and interval timetable, goals and missed shots, the centre pass column, holding time and the suspension clock.
- Training
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- Rules
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- Rules
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The X in box 1, checkmarks and exit scores, time-outs, subs, the libero triangle, penalty points and the T-bar.
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Who runs which clock, the 18-second exclusions, the four flags, the third personal foul and the 45-second whistle.
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T3 not T2, near falls by the second, riding time, the circled first points and how a result is written.