StillfeedScreen time calculator: how much of your life goes to scrolling
How much of your life goes to the feed? Enter how long you scroll each day and see it per week, per year and over a lifetime, plus what you'd win back by cutting down.
Your scrolling, added up
Every week
14 hours
Every year
730 hours
30.4 full days, or 46 waking days
If it continues
4.6 years
by age 80, or 6.9 years of waking time
What cutting 50% would give back
Time back every year
365 hours
2.3 years over your lifetime
Books you could read
52
a year, at ~7 hours a book
Films you could watch
183
a year, at 2 hours each
Work weeks
9.1
a year, at 40 hours each
Your scrolling time is worth
–
a year, at your hourly value
Value you'd win back
–
a year
How the calculator works
Everything is calculated in your browser from the numbers you enter. Nothing is sent anywhere. The maths is deliberately simple:
- Per week is your daily minutes × 7, and per year is your daily minutes × 365.
- Lifetime assumes your current habit continues until you're 80. "Waking time" assumes 16 waking hours a day, which is why it's larger: scrolling comes out of your waking hours, not your sleep.
- Time back is your yearly total × the percentage you'd cut. The equivalents assume about 7 hours to read a typical novel, 2 hours per film and 40 hours per work week.
- Money is only shown if you enter an hourly value. It isn't money you're literally spending; it's a way to put a price on time you could use for something else.
How to find your real number
Guessing tends to underestimate it. On iPhone, open Settings → Screen Time → See All App & Website Activity and switch to Week to see a daily average for each app. Add up the apps where you scroll feeds: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, Reddit, Snapchat and similar.
Then try the calculator again with your real number. For most people the yearly figure is the one that stings. To see how it compares, here is the average screen time by age.
How to actually cut it down
Deciding to scroll less rarely works on its own, because endless feeds are built to remove the natural moments where you'd stop. What works better is changing your setup so stopping is the easy option:
- Remove the endless feeds but keep the app. Reels, Shorts, Explore and recommendation feeds are where sessions stretch out, far more than messages or friends' posts. Stillfeed is a free iPhone browser for Instagram and YouTube that removes Reels, Shorts and Explore before they load and opens Instagram to your Following feed.
- Add a stopping point. A daily time limit puts back the "do I want more?" moment that infinite scroll takes away.
- Keep your phone out of the bedroom. Late-night sessions are often the longest ones of the day.
We cover these and more, with step-by-step iPhone settings, in How to stop doomscrolling: 10 strategies that actually work. If Reels and Shorts are where your time goes, see how to block Reels and Shorts on iPhone.
Common questions
How do I find out how much time I spend scrolling?
On iPhone, open Settings, then Screen Time, then See All App & Website Activity. Switch to Week to see a daily average for each app. Add up the social and video apps you scroll in, such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X and Reddit, and enter that number above.
How is the yearly and lifetime total calculated?
Your daily minutes are multiplied by 365 for the yearly total, and by the number of years until you turn 80 for the lifetime total. Waking time assumes 16 waking hours a day. Equivalents assume about 7 hours to read a novel, 2 hours per film and 40 hours per work week.
Is this calculator free, and is my data stored?
It's free, and everything is calculated in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere. Your numbers only appear in the page address so you can share or bookmark your result.
What counts as doomscrolling?
Scrolling an endless feed well past the point it's useful or enjoyable, often while feeling worse. Read more in What is doomscrolling, and why is it so hard to stop?
