Tasbih Counter

It is a counter for keeping track of dhikr — the repetition of phrases such as SubhanAllah, Alhamdulillah and Allahu Akbar. Traditionally a string of beads; a tasbih counter online does the same counting on a screen.

What is a digital tasbih counter, in practice, is a button and a number. Instead of moving a bead you press once per repetition, and the total is kept for you. This one also lets you set a target and keep several counts side by side.

Yes. Open Settings and put 33 or 99 into "Stop at". The counter will not go past it and announces when the limit is reached, so you can keep your eyes closed.

No. It is saved in your browser, so you can pause part-way through and return to the same number later.

Yes. Add a counter for each phrase and rename them, and each keeps its own total and its own limit.

Yes, once the page has loaded it works offline, and you can add it to your home screen so it opens like an app.

Nothing at all. There is no account and no server — the count exists only in your own browser.

Yes. Rename the counter to whatever you are keeping count of and set your own target. Nothing about it is fixed to a particular phrase or number.

A tasbih is a string of prayer beads used in Islam to keep count while repeating short phrases of remembrance, most often Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah and Allahu Akbar. The word also refers to the act of glorifying God itself, not only to the beads.

Most have 33 or 99. A 99-bead tasbih matches the 99 names of God and is usually divided by markers into three groups of 33; a 33-bead one is worked through three times to reach the same hundred. Shorter strings of 11 and longer ones of 100 also exist.

You recite a phrase once per bead and work along the string until you reach the end or a divider, then either start again or move on to the next phrase. It is most often used after the daily prayers, and the point of the count is that your attention can stay on the words rather than on the number.

Hold the string between thumb and forefinger and push one bead past your thumb with each recitation, so the beads travel in one direction and your place is never in doubt. The larger head bead or the dividers tell you where a set of 33 ends. Here the same movement is one press of the button, with the number shown instead of felt.

Tasbih comes from an Arabic root meaning to glorify, or to declare free of imperfection, so it is usually translated as glorification or praise of God. In everyday English it has also come to mean the prayer beads used for that counting.

Keeping count during dhikr — the repetition of short phrases remembering God — so the reciter does not have to hold a running number in mind. The same beads are used to count durood, istighfar, or any phrase repeated a set number of times.

The most common pattern after prayer is Subhan Allah 33 times, Alhamdulillah 33 times and Allahu Akbar 34 times, which comes to 100. Other narrations give ten of each, and outside prayer people set their own counts. Set a number to stop at here and the counter will flag when you reach it.

Very little — they are two names for the same object. Tasbih comes from the root meaning to glorify and misbaha from a related root meaning to praise; misbaha is heard more in Arabic-speaking countries and tasbih or tesbih more in South Asia and Turkey. Some people reserve tasbih for the act of remembrance and misbaha for the beads.