Keeping several counts going at a community event

Priya volunteers at the community hall fundraiser every autumn. This year she is on the door, and she has also promised the organizers a count of raffle tickets sold and of tables set up in the back room. Last year she tried to do all of it on her phone and kept losing the number whenever someone handed her cash.

This time she sets up Tally Counter on her watch the evening before. She creates three counters and names them Guests, Raffle and Tables, so she never has to remember which number is which. For Raffle she sets the step size to 5, because tickets are sold in strips of five. For Guests she sets a target of 120, the hall's limit.

On the night, the Guests counter is the selected one, so it sits on her Tile. Each time a family walks in, she swipes to the Tile and taps once per person while her other hand stamps wrists. The app never has to open. The complication on her watch face shows the number whenever she glances down.

When the raffle seller comes over with an update, Priya switches to Raffle and turns the crown, one strip at a time. Haptics give her a small buzz on each step, so she can talk to people and count at the same time. She locks Raffle between updates so a sleeve brushing the screen does not change it.

Halfway through, she taps Guests twice by mistake. She takes one away with a single tap and keeps going.

At closing, the organizers ask for the numbers. Guests is a few under the target, Raffle is a tidy multiple of five, and Tables matches what is folded in the corner. Everything was stored on the watch, and none of it needed a phone or a signal in the hall's basement.

An illustrative story built only from features Tally Counter App for Wear OS offers.