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A free online wooden fish (muyu) you can tap right in your browser. Reach 108 taps to complete the day’s check-in, and the calendar keeps track of your streak. Inspired by the centuries-old Chinese Buddhist instrument used for meditation and focus.
The slow, rhythmic tap of the wooden fish is naturally meditative. Use it to take a short break, breathe, and reset.
Every tap adds one to today’s merit, and reaching 108 completes the day’s check-in. The counter resets at midnight, but your check-in record stays.
The check-in calendar lays out each day of the month: days you finished are marked with a wooden fish, days you didn’t finish show how far you got. Your current streak and total merit are there too.
A wooden fish, or muyu, is a hollow wooden percussion instrument used in Chinese and Japanese Buddhist temples for over a thousand years. Monks tap it to keep rhythm during sutra chanting and as a reminder to stay mindful. Read the full guide →
Merit (gongde in Chinese) is the positive force accumulated through good actions, good intentions, and spiritual practice. Tapping a wooden fish is a small, symbolic way to participate in this tradition.
The number recurs throughout Chinese and Japanese Buddhism and carries the sense of completing one full round — it is not an arbitrary round number.
108 afflictions. In the most common explanation, the six senses — eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind — each meet three kinds of feeling: pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral, giving eighteen. Split into defiled and undefiled, that becomes thirty-six; multiplied across past, present, and future, exactly one hundred and eight. Completing a round symbolizes letting each one go.
108 prayer beads. A standard mala has one hundred and eight beads. One recitation moves one bead, and returning to the head bead completes a round. Tapping the wooden fish 108 times follows the same rhythm.
108 bell strikes on New Year’s Eve. Chinese temples and the Japanese joya no kane both ring the bell one hundred and eight times to see out the old year — one strike for each affliction. This is the best-known use of the number.
Getting to 108 takes a minute or two. There’s no need to rush — an even, steady rhythm is closer to how the wooden fish has always been used.
Those taps are still recorded and still count toward your total merit — they just don’t add up to a check-in. The calendar rings that day to show how far you got.
Daily reset is by design — it turns the wooden fish into a small daily habit. Only the day’s counter resets; your check-in history stays in the calendar.
No. Auto-tap just plays the sound — it doesn’t add to the count or move your check-in along. Only the taps you make yourself are counted.
By default only in your own browser’s local storage — nothing is uploaded. That means the record is gone if you switch devices or clear browser data. Sign in if you want your history to follow you.
Yes. Tapping the wooden fish on this site is completely free. No signup, no subscription, no time limit.
Yes. The site works on mobile and desktop. On iOS or Android you can also “Add to Home Screen” for one-tap access.
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