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Screen Time Cost Calculator

Turn your daily screen time into hours a week, a month, a year — and waking days per year. Share your result with a private link.

Daily averages are easy to shrug off. This calculator turns your average daily screen time into weekly, monthly and annual hours, and into the number of waking days per year it adds up to.

Average daily screen time
Hours
Minutes

Your phone’s Screen Time (iPhone) or Digital Wellbeing (Android) shows your real average.

Optional: how much of that is… (hours per day)
Social media
Video (YouTube, TikTok, streaming)
Gaming
Messaging and calls
Work or learning

Every year, at this rate, screens take

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That is 0% of your waking life, assuming 16 waking hours a day.

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    Worth it?

    There is no right answer. Screen time includes talking to people, work, learning and rest. The useful question is whether the total matches what you would choose.

    Share your result

    The link contains only the numbers you entered — no name, no account, nothing stored on our side.

    Keep your results

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    How it is calculated

    • Weekly hours = daily hours × 7
    • Monthly hours = daily hours × 365 ÷ 12
    • Annual hours = daily hours × 365
    • Waking days per year = annual hours ÷ 16, assuming about 8 hours of sleep a night

    Screen time is not automatically wasted time — work, learning and talking to people all count. The useful question is whether the total matches what you would choose. See why scrolling is hard to stop.

    Free, no registration, nothing stored. This tool is educational and does not diagnose any condition. If you are worried about your health, speak to your GP.

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