THE BALLAST PRINCIPLE

Screen Time Calculator

Emerging evidence

Turn your daily screen time into yearly hours, waking weeks, and what else that time could hold. A gentle reality check — free and instant.

1,095

hours per year

9.8

waking weeks per year (16h days)

27.4

full 40-hour work weeks

~183

books' worth of reading time

This isn't a guilt exercise — some of that time is rest, connection, and things you chose. The question the number asks is narrower: how much of it did you choose? If part of it is anxious scrolling that leaves you worse, that part is load pretending to be rest. Reclaiming even half an hour of it buys you a daily walk, a real conversation, or the sleep you keep meaning to get.