How many of us are playing WoW Forever?

Blizzard doesn’t publish player numbers. So we count — anonymously, together.

Download the appHow it works

See it in your game

A small panel, a minimap button and a tooltip. Everything else happens quietly while you play.

The How Many of Us panel in World of Warcraft, showing switches for counting and nameplates, and the player's layer, players seen, reports waiting and last upload.
The panel (/hmou): your layer, the players around you, what's waiting to send and your realm right now.
The Send your reports window in World of Warcraft, with a link to howmanyof.us/send and a long code to copy.
No app? /hmou send gives you a link and a code to paste into your browser.
The minimap tooltip, showing the layer, six players nearby and nineteen reports waiting.
Hover the minimap button for your layer at a glance.

Counting heads…

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How it works

  1. 1

    Play with the addon

    It notes who’s around you and which layer you’re on. No names, no chat.

  2. 2

    The app sends it

    A small desktop app uploads what the addon saw, with every player id scrambled first. No app? The addon can make a code to paste here instead.

  3. 3

    We do the math

    Sightings from everyone are merged and deduplicated, then estimated with capture–recapture statistics.

We never store character names. Player ids are one-way hashed on your computer before anything is uploaded, and only totals are published.

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