The meter reacts while you drag
Each slider stores plain minutes for one surface. The page sums those values, paints the ring as a slice of your waking window, and multiplies the daily figure into week, month, and year using fixed 7, 30, and 365 day factors.
No server sees your numbers.
When honest totals sting
People round down unconsciously. If your first pass feels too low, add the minutes you spend waiting in line or half-watching TV with a phone in hand.
- Short sessions add up faster than binge blocks because context switching has a tax.
- Notifications pull you in for sixty seconds at a time; those slivers belong in the model.
- If the ring crosses one hundred percent of waking hours, your inputs disagree with physics. Pause and revise.
Three people, three budgets
Mina, commuter. She sets fifteen minutes on X, forty-five on Instagram, and ninety on YouTube. The month line lands near thirty-four hours. She links the same sheet with audio habits using the podcast calculator to keep evening noise honest.
Leo, job seeker. LinkedIn runs high while other apps stay quiet. He keeps TikTok at zero on purpose so the total reflects professional scrolling only.
Kai, student. Everything spikes during exam week, then drops. Kai screenshots the weekly number before resetting sliders so the before-and-after story stays visible.
Who runs the math, where it stops
Toolexe ships this page as a free estimator. We do not log inputs, store profiles, or sync with OS screen-time APIs. You remain the source of truth.
Accuracy stops where self-reporting stops. Monthly totals assume thirty-day months; real calendars alternate between twenty-eight and thirty-one. Yearly totals ignore leap years. Survey headlines you read online use different methods, so do not expect this ring to match a national average line by line.
For habit loops and streak framing after you know the totals, open the habit tracker or productivity tracker next.
What this page refuses to pretend
Operating-system screen-time dashboards read passive signals from the device. This sheet reads whatever you type. Neither approach captures mind-wandering while a laptop sits open on a spreadsheet, so both miss some truth.
We also keep every projection linear. If you delete an app on Sunday, the yearly column still assumes the rest of the year looks like Sunday unless you revisit the sliders. Seasonal jobs, school breaks, and travel weeks all violate the flat multiplier, which is why we expose the factors openly in the definition list above.
Swap cards divide your total by fixed block sizes. They do not account for setup time, commute to a gym, or the social overhead of calling a friend. Treat them as a contrast lamp, not a replacement for a planner.
Finally, brand names label sliders so you remember which pile of minutes you meant. They do not imply partnership with those companies, and they do not pull live analytics from them.
