Wastime
See the time behind your money
Convert any price into hours, full days, and working days based on your income.
Wastime Converter turns money into a question you can actually answer — how much of your life does this cost? Once the trade-off has a number attached to it, it gets easier to hear what you already think about the purchase.
Add your income, hourly or monthly or yearly, and include taxes if you want the number to sit closer to reality. The time behind a price shows up right away.
- Convert any price into hours, full days, and working days
- Use hourly, monthly, or yearly income with optional taxes
- Save conversions in baskets to spot long-term patterns
- Works offline by default and keeps income data private
The quiet question behind a price tag
A price arrives as a number in some currency, which makes it look like a fact about the shop. But you earned that number with hours out of one finite life, and that part never makes it onto the tag.
- Your hourly value is what actually gets spent, long before the money leaves the account.
- So “Can I afford this?” quietly carries a second question about whether the hours behind it were worth trading.
- Converter puts that number where you can see it, and then stays out of the way.
Room to choose clearly
Nothing here is going to tell you to put the money back. Converter shows what a purchase costs in hours and leaves the decision where it belongs, with you.
Sometimes the honest answer is that it was worth every hour, and that counts as a good outcome too.
Convert money into time in one line
price / your hourly value = hours
Output formats that make scale readable
Hours or minutes
Primary result in hours, with minute precision for small amounts.
Full days
The same result translated as hours divided by 24.
Working days
A practical work scale based on hours divided by 8.
Examples to feel the difference
Dinner
50 EUR at 20 EUR/hour
2.5 hours
Car purchase
25,000 EUR at 20 EUR/hour
1,250 hours ~ 52 full days ~ 156 working days
Quick mode, no account required
Use quick mode for one-off decisions and rough checks.
- Enter income, currency, and price
- Get an instant time-cost result
- Save only when you decide to keep it
Accounts for real-life context
Use accounts when you want Converter to remember your setup.
- Income type: hourly, monthly, or yearly
- Tax rate (optional)
- Currency
- Default account selection with fast switching
Currency conversion
- Exchange rates are updated manually on request.
- The chosen rate is stored in account settings for transparency.
- You always see which rate your conversion used.
Baskets reveal spending patterns
Single conversions help, though the pattern only shows up once you start grouping them.
Account examples
- Group repeated purchases into one category you recognize.
- See combined time-cost across hours, days, months, and years.
- Use totals to notice patterns instead of isolated purchases.
A quiet look back
Saved conversions keep enough detail that you can come back and read them properly.
- Save conversion inputs, result, and linked basket/account.
- Edit or delete saved items at any time.
- Re-assign records to another basket or account when context changes.
- Review recurring expenses that feel small but compound over a year.
Taxes as an optional detail
- Tax rate is optional, though adding it brings your hourly value closer to what you really take home.
- It's only there to keep the number close to reality, and you can leave it out entirely.
- Insights into how much of your life goes toward taxes are planned.
Private by default
Income is a sensitive thing, so Converter is built so you can be straight with it and nobody else.
- Works fully offline by default
- Income data stays on your device
- Sync is optional and only used if you enable it
How to start in 2 minutes
A couple of minutes of setup, and the rest happens whenever you open it.
- 1Create one account with income and currency (taxes optional).
- 2Convert three everyday things — a subscription, a small habit, and one big purchase idea.
- 3Save a few items.
- 4Review total time-cost once a week, then close the app.
Some things, sometimes
A few scenarios people bring to this one.
“How many hours do I work for this?”
Convert a price into hours before you buy, and use the pause to decide for yourself.
“Subscriptions don't feel expensive, but they add up”
Put them in one account and review the combined time-cost over months.
“I don't want to spend less. I want to spend on purpose”
Compare one big purchase against the same amount of time spent on something that matters more to you.
“I have multiple incomes or currencies”
Use accounts and switch context in one tap.
FAQ
Short answers before your first conversion.
Put one price through it
Convert one purchase you've been thinking about, and see what the hours behind it look like before you decide.
