Digital Detox Screen Time Savings Calculator
Screen-time trackers just show you a number you already knew was bad. This converts the reduction you're considering into hours reclaimed per year, and dollars if you put a value on your time. Nothing uploaded.
Time Reclaimed
Dollar Value
Enter an hourly value of your time to see the dollar value of the hours you'd reclaim.
Learn more: putting numbers on screen time
How the savings are calculated
The calculator subtracts your target daily screen time from your current daily screen time, then multiplies the gap by 365. Cutting from 6 hours to 4 saves 2 hours a day, which is 730 hours a year.
It shows that total three ways: as full 24-hour days (730 / 24 = 30.4), as 8-hour workdays (730 / 8 = 91.3), and, if you enter an hourly value, as a dollar figure. At $25 an hour, the same 730 hours comes to $18,250.
What the hourly value means
The dollar figure is only hours times whatever rate you type in. If you enter your pay rate, it shows what those hours could have earned if you had worked them, which only makes sense when the time could really be swapped for paid work. If you enter a lower number for how much you value your free time, it shows that instead.
Leave the rate blank and the calculator sticks to hours, days and workdays. That avoids implying that every hour you cut turns into income.
Limits of the estimate
The projection assumes the daily gap holds every day of the year, weekends included. If your target is higher than your current screen time, the daily saving is clamped to zero rather than shown as a negative number.
FAQ
Does "equivalent workdays" assume an 8-hour day?
Yes. The calculator divides annual hours saved by 8 to get workdays, and by 24 to get full days. Both are the same total hours in different units, not separate estimates.
Is the hourly value taken from my salary?
No, it is whatever number you enter. It can be your wage, a freelance rate, or a figure you pick for your own free time. The calculator multiplies that rate by the annual hours saved and does nothing else with it.
What if my screen time changes a lot from day to day?
Enter a realistic weekly average instead of your best or worst day. The yearly total assumes the gap you enter repeats all 365 days, so an unrepresentative number will overstate or understate the result.