Enter how many minutes you spend each day on each type of screen activity, choose a reduction target, and see how much time you could get back.
Your results
Put another way, that reduction is roughly
How this calculator works
Add up the minutes you spend each day on social media, video and streaming, gaming, and other browsing, then set a reduction target as a percentage. The tool multiplies your daily total by that percentage to estimate the time you would get back each day, then scales it up to a week, a month, a year, and however many years you choose to project.
What the recovered time actually means
This is a projection based on the figures you enter, not a measurement of your real habits. It assumes your screen time and your reduction stay constant over the period, which real life rarely does. Treat the result as a way to see the scale of a small daily change, not as a guarantee of what you will gain.
Where the book, film and sleep figures come from
The comparisons use simple, stated assumptions: about 6 hours to read an average book, about 2 hours to watch a film, and 8 hours as a full night of sleep. These are round numbers meant to make an abstract total of minutes easier to picture, not scientific averages. Swap in your own pace if you know it.
The right to disconnect is a live policy topic in the UK
Reducing your own screen time is a personal choice, but it sits alongside a wider debate. The UK government has set out plans for a statutory code of practice giving employees a stronger right to switch off from work messages outside working hours, following similar rules already in place elsewhere in Europe. Whatever happens with that policy, the same principle, protecting time away from a screen, applies just as well to your own free time.