Track your daily screen time across all devices and compare to healthy guidelines.
Most of us have a vague sense that we spend a lot of time on screens. This calculator makes that concrete — turning daily hours into weekly totals, monthly totals, and yearly figures that are often genuinely surprising.
The yearly number in particular tends to land. Someone spending 6 hours a day on screens is looking at over 2,000 hours per year — equivalent to a full-time job. Whether that's a problem depends on what those hours are being used for, but having the real number is a useful starting point for any honest assessment.
This is particularly useful for parents managing children's screen time, for anyone doing a digital wellbeing audit, or simply for satisfying your own curiosity about where your time is actually going.
There's no firm evidence-based limit for adults the way there is for children, but the World Health Organization and most health bodies recommend being mindful of sedentary screen use — particularly prolonged social media use, which is associated with poorer mental health outcomes in some research.
The Australian Government's guidelines recommend no screen time for children under 2 (except video calling), no more than 1 hour per day for children aged 2-5, and no more than 2 hours of recreational screen time for children aged 5-17, with screens off before bedtime.
Yes. The blue light emitted by phones and tablets suppresses melatonin production and can delay sleep onset by up to an hour. The stimulating nature of social media and video content also increases alertness at the wrong time. Most sleep researchers recommend stopping screen use 30-60 minutes before bed.
Both iOS (Screen Time in Settings) and Android (Digital Wellbeing in Settings) have built-in screen time tracking. They'll show you your daily average by app category, which is usually more informative than trying to estimate it yourself.