# How to make an app that counts the letter a
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-an-app-that-counts-the-letter-a/765050
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** beginner
**Created:** [August 24, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-an-app-that-counts-the-letter-a/765050 "2020-08-24T11:47:18Z")
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### Author:  [@sohalia.yogetx](https://community.thunkable.com/u/sohalia.yogetx)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-an-app-that-counts-the-letter-a/765050/1 "2020-08-24T11:47:18Z")
So how do you create an app that counts the letter a ???
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-an-app-that-counts-the-letter-a/765050/2 "2020-08-24T13:15:30Z")
This requires looping through the text and adding one to the letter frequency value for “a” or “A” each time the letter matching the loop index value’s position is equal to one of those target letters.
You mentioned to me that you are new to coding. If so, my example project may be a little hard to follow. But hopefully it will get you started. The first screen (“text letter count”) has an example that counts the number of "e"s in the text.
[https://x.thunkable.com/copy/d0844dbd3064096b0f755469c7210a98](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/d0844dbd3064096b0f755469c7210a98)
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-an-app-that-counts-the-letter-a/765050/3 "2024-11-08T12:24:40Z")