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how many? - Count from Photo

Count Objects in Photos
New in version 0.3.0
- Take photos with any camera app you installed, also when your phone has no preinstalled one.
- With several camera apps, choose one and the app remembers it. Long press the camera button to choose again.
How many pipes are in that stack? How many coins on the table, windows on the building, fish in the tank? Take a photo, mark one object, and how many? counts all the others.

How it works
1. Take a photo or pick one from your gallery.
2. Drag a box around one of the objects you want to count.
3. Tap GO. how many? finds and marks every object that looks like it.
4. Check the result: tap a point to remove a wrong one, or tap an object to add one that was missed. Drag the edges to count only part of the photo.

Count anything
how many? isn't trained on a fixed list of things. You show it what to count, so it works on pipes, boards, screws, nuts, pills, coins, eggs, fruit, bottles, books, birds, windows, tiles and much more, even with hundreds or a thousand objects in one photo.

Private by design
Counting runs entirely on your phone. The app has no internet permission, so your photos never leave the device. No account, no ads, no tracking.

Free and open source
how many? is free software under the MIT license. It counts with GeCo2, a few-shot counting model by Jer Pelhan, Alan Lukežič and Matej Kristan, run on the phone with ONNX Runtime.

Good to know
Counting takes a few seconds and works best when the objects are clearly visible, not too small and photographed in good light. The count is a starting point: a few taps usually fix it. how many? needs a 64-bit ARM phone with Android 12 or newer.

Source code, questions and feature requests: https://github.com/EiSiMo/howmany

Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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  • Version 0.3.0 (7) suggested Added on Oct 27, 2026

    arm64-v8a

    This version requires Android 12 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • run.moritz.howmany.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 85 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • New in version 0.2.2
    - Fixed the app closing after counting on phones with less memory.
  • Version 0.2.2 (6) - Added on Oct 22, 2026

    arm64-v8a

    This version requires Android 12 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • run.moritz.howmany.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 85 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • New in version 0.2.1
    - Fixed the app closing when you switch to another app after counting a large photo.
    - Fixed the app closing after saving a count to the gallery on phones with less memory.
  • Version 0.2.1 (5) - Added on Oct 16, 2026

    arm64-v8a

    This version requires Android 12 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • run.moritz.howmany.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 85 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log