ZeroCounter vs SimpleTally
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ZeroCounter
This app provides a minimalist interface for efficient counting tasks. It's ideal for inventory, scorekeeping, or habit tracking, offering powerful functionality with a sleek design.
- Minimalist interface
- Efficient counting
- Inventory tracking
- Score tallying
- Habit monitoring
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ZeroCounter is a sleek iOS app designed to simplify counting tasks with elegance and efficiency. Whether you're tracking inventory, tallying scores, or monitoring habits, ZeroCounter offers a minimalist interface coupled with powerful functionality.
SimpleTally
This utility app allows you to easily track multiple counts simultaneously with a unique linking feature. Navigate counts with simple gestures and customize your experience with themes and feedback options. Share your results effortlessly.
- Tap to count up, swipe down to count down
- Unlimited counters
- Link counters together
- Customizable counter themes
- Haptic and audio feedback
- Prevent display sleep
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SimpleTally is an easy to use tally counter with a twist. What's the twist? You can link counters together so you can count multiple things at the same time. Keep your eyes on what you're counting and not on your device with simple counting gestures. It's available for your iPhone or iPad. Key Features: - Simple intuitive interface, just tap to count up and swipe down to count down. - Unlimited counters - Supports dark mode - Counter color themes - Create up or down counters with initial value, step size, and reset value - Lock counter to avoid value being changed - Create one-way links between counters so that changing one changes them all - Easily share results with others for a single counter or all counters - Simple reset of a single counter or all counters - Enable haptic feedback on supported devices - Enable audio feedback with tap sound or voice - Enable to prevent display from sleeping when SimpleTally is active - No ads to interrupt your experience
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SimpleTally at every 3 weeks against ZeroCounter's every 6 months. SimpleTally also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 2). ZeroCounter's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ZeroCounter against 4.9 for SimpleTally. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimpleTally has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
ZeroCounter ships an update every 6 months, SimpleTally every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ZeroCounter | SimpleTally |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Min-young Yoo | Douglas Robison |
Customer experience
ZeroCounter
SimpleTally
In-app purchases
ZeroCounter
No in-app purchases
SimpleTally
No in-app purchases
