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A year worth remembering.

The little things you record become a picture of your year.

Small Counts is a quiet notebook for the books you read, the walks you took and the people you made time for. Each month becomes a page. Page by page, the pages become the book of your year, and the year ends in a picture for the wall.

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Track free. £10 for your year's keepsakes. No subscription.

A year as a wall print: five soft ribbons of colour, marine, rose, ochre, teal and sage, rising and falling from January to December, with fine gold lines and a few gold dots.
A year, drawn from the little things.

An app for your phone, a keepsake for your wall.

Small Counts works in your browser on a phone or computer, and you can add it to your home screen. Here's a year in it, from a tap a day to the pages you keep.

  1. The app's Today screen on a phone: a small picture of the year so far, then the Read more card with the book being read now, Cold Comfort Farm, and a Finished it button.

    1Tap what happened

    A few seconds a day: the book you're reading, a walk, a film. Miss a day and nothing breaks.

  2. Your year on a phone: 2026 day by day, twelve little month calendars with a gold square for every day with memories, deeper on fuller days, from 63 memories in January to 14 so far in November.

    2Watch your year fill in

    Every day gets a square, deeper gold on fuller days, and each book, series and walk has its own chart across the year.

  3. October's A4 page on the phone's Keepsake screen: a calendar of the days remembered, a chart of the series watched and the month's named memories.

    3Each month becomes a page

    When a month ends, it is set as an A4 page, ready to print or keep.

    With the £10 collection

  4. The book of your year in the app: a cover with the year drawn as soft ribbons of colour, then a contents page, January to December.

    4And the book of your year

    The pages build into one book with a cover, contents and your year day by day, and the year ends in a picture for the wall.

    With the £10 collection

Screens from the demo. Try it yourself.

A few seconds a day.

Open it, tap what happened, close it. A chapter, a walk, coffee with a friend. Miss a day, or a month: nothing's broken, and nothing's lost. When you come back, it shows you what you did, not what you didn't.

Start with a few of ours, or make your own: Read more, Get outside, See people, Make things, Move more, Lift heavy things, Learn something, Sleep better, Spend less and save more, Drink less, Look after yourself, Watch good things, Play games, Be present. Ideas for each theme

Your year on a computer: nine series watched in 2026, one row each with a mark for every evening, from Ted Lasso, watched 22 times in May, to Detectorists, a favourite, watched in January and again in October.
Your year, free in the app: each series on its own row, with a mark for every evening you watched.

One month at a time.

At the start of each month, the month just gone becomes a page: the books you finished, the films you saw, the places you went and the days you got outside, set out like a chapter. You don't have to wait for December to have something to keep.

An A4 page for October 2026: a calendar of the days remembered, deeper gold on fuller days, a chart of the series watched night by night, and four named memories: books finished and a film.
A month on a page. Your first is January 2027, made at the start of February.

Month by month, the pages build into the book of your year, with a cover, a contents page, your year day by day and page numbers: the one you open when someone asks, "What were we doing that summer?" Print it at home and clip or bind it, or keep it as a PDF.

And then, the whole year.

Your year makes a picture nobody else could make.

When December's page is done, the whole year becomes a print for the wall. Each ribbon is something you care about. It rises when you did it often and falls quiet when you didn't, and the gold marks are your favourite moments. It's beautiful to anyone; only you know what it means.

How to read yours

  • Each ribbon is one of your themes, in its own colour.
  • Taller means busier, measured against your own busiest weeks for that theme.
  • Gold dots are things you marked as favourites.
  • Bare paper is time you were quiet, or didn't record. Gaps are part of the year.
A year as soft ribbons of colour on paper.
The same year as fine gold and pale blue lines on deep navy.
The same year, two ways: colour ribbons, and fine blue and gold lines. More styles to choose from are coming.

£10 for your year.

Track free, for as long as you like. When you want the keepsakes, get that year's collection: a page each month, building into the book of your year, and the picture of the whole year at the end. Yours to keep, and to make again whenever you like.

  • Tracking is free, always: as many themes and lists as you like.
  • Buy a year whenever you like, even in December. A quiet month still makes a lovely page.
  • Each year is its own £10. Nothing renews, and years you've bought stay yours.
  • Free automatic backup, locked on your device before it leaves, so a new phone doesn't have to mean starting again.
  • No account and no adverts. What you record stays on your device.

Questions

Will you send me a printed book or framed print?

No. We create downloadable, print-ready artwork, not physical prints, frames or bound books. You can print the files at home or use a professional printer at your own cost.

Is it a subscription?

No. £10 buys one year's collection, for example your 2027. Nothing renews. If you'd like 2028's too, that's another £10, only if you choose.

What do I get for £10?

That year's keepsakes: a printable page each month, which build into the book of your year, and a picture of the whole year for the wall, made from what you recorded. You can make them again whenever you add or change something.

Can I just use it free?

Yes. Tracking is free with no limits, and so are backups and downloading everything you have recorded.

What if I start part-way through the year?

Your collection covers whatever you recorded. A month with one book and two walks still makes a beautiful page.

Do I need an account?

No. What you record stays on your device. If you buy, you get a key by email, one for each year.

What if I lose my phone?

Turn on the free automatic backup and your device saves a locked copy online, up to once a day. On a new phone, type your recovery code and your records come back. You can also save a backup file whenever you like. We can't read the copy. Recovery depends on having the code or a file when you need it, so keep the code somewhere safe.

Is there an app?

It's a web app. After loading it online, you can add it to your home screen and use saved parts offline while your browser keeps them. Buying, key activation and online backup need an internet connection.

Is it only for New Year's resolutions?

No. It's a record of the year you actually lived, whatever you set out to do. If you do make resolutions, December is a lovely time to set up the year you'll want to remember.

Who makes it?

HitF5 Solutions Ltd, the small UK company behind What Helps ADHD.