A short, mean calculatorWhat is scrolling
What is scrolling
costing you?
Drop in your daily screen time. We'll show you how many years of an average 80-year life you'll spend staring at it — plus the cold American dollar number, for posting purposes.
Already convinced? Skip the math.
Across an 80-year life
13.3years
$2,920,000
Lifetime cost
4,867
Days
116,800
Lifetime hours
Things you could have done instead
33 ways 13.3 years actually lands.
14,600
Books finished
58,400
Movies watched
25,956
Marathons run
350,400
Naps taken
14,600
Full nights of sleep
140,160
Therapy sessions attended
467,200
Walks logged
155,733
Workouts completed
116,800
Yoga classes attended
467,200
Calls to mom made
467,200
Bedtime stories read
233,600
Letters to grandma sent
467,200
Sunsets chased
116,800
Dinners home-cooked
9,733
Sourdoughs baked
116,800
Pints clinked with a friend
38,933
Game nights hosted
58,400
Museums wandered
38,933
Songs written
389
Guitar, learned to play
78
Languages learned
292
Novels written
9,733
LOTR trilogies rewatched
1,229
Office binges completed
14,600
National parks explored
2,596
Road trips driven
2,920
Vacations taken
83,429
Brunches hosted
19,467
Concerts seen live
2,433
Weekend getaways taken
1,947
Trips to Europe taken
834
Trips to Hawaii taken
73
Weddings thrown
You don't have to spend 13.3 years of your life this way.
Pantalla helps you take some of it back.
The fine print
How this calculator works
How is the dollar cost calculated?
We multiply your daily scrolling hours by 365 days and 80 years — the rough length of an average life — then value each of those hours at $25/hour. It's a rough proxy. Your time is almost certainly worth more.
Why 80 years?
Roughly the U.S. life expectancy. The calculator answers a simple question: if you keep this pace across an 80-year life, what does the total come to? It's not a prediction. It's a back-of-the-envelope.
Why $25 an hour?
It's roughly the U.S. median wage and a conservative way to put a dollar figure on time. The point isn't the exact number — it's that the number is real, and it's bigger than you think.
Where do I find my daily screen time?
On iPhone: Settings → Screen Time → See All App & Website Activity. The daily average across the last week is the honest number. Use that.
Isn't some of this scrolling fine?
Sure. Catching up with friends, reading something good, learning a thing — that's not the cost. The cost is the doom-scroll, the after-midnight rabbit hole, the unlock-glance-relock loop. Pantalla is built for that part.