Hrm, that app seems to be shit, measuring only by its licensing system.

But I wonder about an app that can count things automatically, plus maybe also work out counts of 3D shapes by counting visible things and making estimates about packing ratios. A sort of "how many M&Ms are in the jar calculator" app. That'd be neat (and would ruin a fun game).

This is yet another link to an app that doesn't do what the author of the post actually specified.

The post specifically says there's not a tool for counting red dots on an image, and there absolutely are. From the side-counts, you still have to extrapolate to a volume, but a specific highlighted sub-problem is well addressed by apps.

> The post specifically says there's not a tool for counting red dots on an image

Oh really? Is that what it says? Let's take a look:

> All I wanted was a way to click on things in a photo and have the number go up.

Those are the requirements. That's what the app is supposed to do.

I don't see "a tool for counting red dots" anywhere. The closest thing is this passage:

> It's stupidly simple: upload an image, click to drop a dot, and it tells you how many you've placed[…] But somehow, nothing like it existed.

You linked to an app that places its own markers (by way of ML) and then gives you a count of those—not a count of the ones that you put down. That so obviously fails the requirements.

You seem... needlessly offended.

Pass in your image with red dots, and the red dots will be counted by the ML-counting thing just fine. It's a minor variation in approach to solving the problem, and that's OK: When confronted with a problem, people often jump to specific solutions too quickly, and miss out on better or more general approaches. This is quite pertinent in this specific case, as well - you can ask the ML-counting thing to count the rectangles instead of the dots, and perhaps save yourself all the clicking in the first place.

Look, there's no need to get upset. Take a breath. Calm down.

> This is quite pertinent in this specific case, as well - you can ask the ML-counting thing to count the rectangles instead of the dots, and perhaps save yourself all the clicking in the first place.

Are you just dead set on totally missing the point of what the author of this post is doing? You keep leaving comments that suggest you don't understand the requirements at all. Let's put that aside. Here's a dead simple question:

Have you successfully used the app to do the thing that you're saying that it will do when you try to use it?

A good friend+colleague uses that app for counting nests of migratory seabirds in drone imagery for population surveys. It's great. I work in acoustics, myself. :)

> Here's a dead simple question: Have you successfully used the app to do the thing that you're saying that it will do