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JaapDaily brings its 108-bead mala counter to the Chrome toolbar, with one permission and no tracking
The free japa counter for iPhone, Android and Apple Watch now counts from a browser toolbar — thirteen naams, a keyboard shortcut for chanting with the eyes closed, and no network requests at all.
LYNNWOOD, Wash., Sep 27, 2026 — JaapDaily, a free japa counter for iPhone, Android and Apple Watch, has released a free extension for Google Chrome that counts naam japa from the browser toolbar. It is available now on the Chrome Web Store, needs no account, works with no internet connection, and asks Chrome for a single permission.
Clicking the toolbar icon opens a 108-bead mala. Each tap fills one bead, and when a round closes a bell marks it, the way a guru bead does under the thumb. A mala can be set to 27, 54, 108 or 1008 beads, and the extension keeps today's count, a lifetime total and a daily streak that continues only if the previous day was actually counted.
It also counts without being opened. Alt+Shift+K adds one repetition while the popup is closed and the toolbar badge shows how far through the round the user is — the desktop equivalent of counting on a phone with the volume buttons, for people who chant with their eyes closed. Alt+Shift+J opens the counter, and the space bar counts while it is open.
Thirteen naams ship with the extension, each with its own artwork: Ram, Radha, Radhe Radhe, Hare Krishna, Om Namah Shivaya, Sitaram, Jai Shree Ram, Om, Shree Ganesh, Jai Hanuman, Waheguru, Shree Krishna and Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya. A naam that is not among them can be typed, and is kept in whatever script the keyboard produces — nothing is transliterated, shortened or corrected, the same rule the app and the website follow for sacred text.
The extension collects nothing. It has no analytics, no telemetry and no crash reporting, and it makes no network request of any kind: the artwork, the fonts and the bell are all packaged inside it, which is also why it works offline. It asks Chrome for one permission, storage, so that the count, the chosen naam and the settings can be remembered on the user's own computer, and it asks for no access to any website. It cannot see browsing history, the pages a user opens, or anything typed anywhere else. What that means in practice is published at jaapdaily.com/privacy.
The privacy design has a consequence the extension does not hide: because a browser extension cannot read another origin's storage, its count is its own, separate from the count on jaapdaily.com and in the app. One tap on “Full” carries the naam being counted, the position in the round and the rounds finished across to the website's counter so a session can continue on a bigger screen — that information travels inside the link itself and never reaches a server. Making the three genuinely one practice would require the app's optional sign-in, and has not been built.
Founder Dishika Singh built the app after losing count during her own daily practice. “I lost count of my mala 30 times before I built this,” said Singh. “JaapDaily exists as seva — selfless service. It will always be free, with no ads and no subscription, because a spiritual practice shouldn't sit behind a paywall.”
The app the extension accompanies has counted more than 25 million mantra repetitions since it launched in June 2026. It includes 74 naams and 39 mantras, a library of 114 aarti and chalisa texts in Devanagari, Roman transliteration and English, a standalone Apple Watch app that counts with the Digital Crown, and an interface in 20 languages — while the naam and mantra text itself is never translated or machine-transliterated.
Neither the app nor the extension carries advertising, and there is no paid tier in either. Donations made through the app go to SPARK WA Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, for its non-profit work.
The extension is published by Dishika Singh as an individual developer rather than as a business. The Chrome Web Store marks such an item “Non-trader”, and shows visitors in the European Union a notice that EU consumer-contract rights do not apply to it.
The extension is on the Chrome Web Store. JaapDaily is available on the App Store and Google Play, and at jaapdaily.com.
About JaapDaily
JaapDaily is a free, privacy-first japa counter for iOS, Android and Apple Watch. It supports 74 naams, 39 mantras and 20 languages, includes a native Apple Watch app and a library of 114 chalisa and aarti texts. No account is required, and practice data stays on the device unless the user chooses to sync. Available on the App Store and Google Play.
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