How much of your life goes into reels?

Short videos are built to keep you watching. A few minutes here and there feels harmless, but the same habit every day stacks into weeks of waking time each year — time you could spend on skills, school prep, or rest.

This calculator turns your daily guess into hours per year, days on a calendar, and rough “what else you could do” equivalents. It is not a lecture; it is a mirror so you can decide what to keep and what to trim.

On Android, Digital Wellbeing lets you see per-app minutes and set daily timers. On iPhone, Screen Time → App Limits can cap Social apps at 15–30 minutes. Pair limits with a fixed “learning swap”: when the timer fires, open ClassVani Play or Practice for one short round instead of extending the limit.

Keep phones off the study desk, use grayscale mode in the evening if your phone offers it, and charge outside the bedroom. Parents can model the same check: add your own social apps and talk about the yearly total as a family number, not a blame game.

Fifteen minutes of reels and fifteen minutes of maths games are the same clock time — but only one builds skills you keep. ClassVani Play works in the browser with no download; Exam Prep MCQs work the same way for older students.

Try halving your reel minutes for two weeks and sending the saved block to /play or /practice. Use the “cut in half” toggle above to see how many hours you would get back in a year.