How Much of Your Life Have You Spent on YouTube?

Enter when you started and how much you watch on an average day. This turns that habit into days, months, years — and things you can actually picture.


Estimate starts from January 1 of that year.


2 hours a day



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Real dates, honest averages

January 1 of your start year to today, multiplied by your daily average — the days are exact, the daily number is your own estimate. Eleven years at two hours a day comes out to about 356 total days, a full year of nonstop watching hidden inside a decade of ordinary evenings.

02

A slider that speaks in real time

The readout updates in hours and minutes as you drag it, not decimals. The four presets are starting points, not claims about what’s normal — pick one, then adjust to your own habit.

03

One number, three shapes

Years up top, days and hours right underneath it, plus a one-line read on where that total sits — from “just getting started” to “most-used app by now.”

04

Hours translated into things you can picture

Full-length films, 40-hour work weeks, full nights of sleep — each one built from a reference printed right on the card, so you can see exactly where the number comes from.

05

Your current pace, isolated from your history

One figure that ignores everything you’ve already watched and answers a narrower question: at today’s daily average, how much of one calendar year goes to YouTube?

06

Life perspective, on your terms

Add your age and a lifespan estimate, and two more lines appear: the share of your life so far, and what the rest looks like if nothing changes. Both are labeled as built from what you typed in — not a claim about how long you’ll live.

07

What a smaller habit is worth

Cut 15, 30 or 60 minutes a day and watch two numbers move together: the days that gives back over a year and over a decade, and what your total would look like if that pace had been true all along.

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A result you can actually send

Download renders your numbers as a single image, drawn locally in your browser. Copy link saves your inputs into a URL, so whoever opens it sees your result, not a blank form.

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