A seven-day experiment with your time

Four hours of work.
Or so you think.

A few times a day, your phone asks one thing — what are you doing right now? One tap. Three seconds. Back to your life. After a week you'll see where your hours actually went — because your memory was never going to tell you.

See a real report →
No account. No setup.

Three steps.
Then you forget it's there.

01

Welcome.

Logo glides in, text settles. Zero forms, zero login.

9:41
First experiment
A week
with yourself.

Seven days of brief pings. No judgment, no screens.

Start the week →
02

When do you sleep?

I won't ping you at night. Set your sleep window — the rest is fair game.

23:14
Setup · 01 / 03 skip
When do
you sleep?

I won't ping you at night.

Sleep window 8h
Bedtime
23:00
→
Wake up
07:00
00 12 24
Next →
03

Which days count?

The whole week. Weekends tell the most. Plus frequency — 8 pings per day is enough.

9:41
Setup · 02 / 03 skip
Which days
count?

The whole week. Weekends tell the most.

Active days
mo01
tu02
we03
th04
fr05
sa06
su07
Frequency
8 pings/day
−
+
Next →
Your whole job

Three seconds
is the whole deal.

04

The week's running.

You set sleep, days, ping count. The rest schedules itself.

9:41
PingMe
Today
Week
Week 01 in progress · Thursday
Day 4

of seven · June 4

Pings this week 48%
27 of 56
mo
tu
we
th
fr
sa
su
Report
Opens in 3d 14h
05

Ping. Three seconds.

At a random moment a question appears. Tap one of six categories. Back to what you were doing.

14:37
ping 28 / 56 14:37
What are you
doing now?

First thought. Don't correct.

Deep work
flow, single task
→
Shallow work
email, slack, small stuff
→
Meeting
talk, call
→
Scroll / social
feed, news, video
→
Entertainment
games, film, hobby
→
Life
food, sport
→
06

Thanks. Go back.

After answering, brief confirmation and day's progress. Auto-closes — we don't hold you.

14:37
saved 14:37:42
28 / 56 · ping saved
Thanks.
Go back.

Next ping — no sooner than 45 minutes.

Your day 4 of 8
category
Deep work
Not like Screen Time

Screen Time
is lying to you.

You can have a spreadsheet open and be scrolling your phone in your other hand — for every tracker on the market, that's "work". For PingMe, it isn't. We don't watch your apps. We ask you, in random moments, what you're actually doing — at your desk, in the kitchen, on the couch, in your head. A laptop can't see that. Screen Time can't either. PingMe just asks.

step 01
40
answers this week, out of 56 sent pings
↘
step 02
8
tagged "scroll / social"
=
step 03
20%
scrolling share in the sample
≈
result
~22h
across a 112h active window (16h × 7 days)
— what other trackers pretend
"2h 14min of scrolling on Wednesday, between 19:32 and 21:46."
→ false minute-by-minute precision
+ what PingMe says
"about 2h a day" · "~20% of your pings" · "one in five times we asked — you were scrolling."
→ honest estimate from a representative sample
A laptop can't tell if you're scrolling in the background.
PingMe asks you, not your screen. That's why the data is real.
Every week · same clock · same measure
After 7 days

What you said.
What was.

After seven days you'll find a number that doesn't match the one in your head. That's the point. This isn't shame — it's a baseline. You can't change what you can't see.

07

The seal breaks.

56 samples over 7 days. After a week PingMe unlocks the report — then you see what was.

6:00
Report ready
Seven days.
56 samples.

Everything you left about yourself. 49 answers. Open before you forget how it was.

Break the seal →
08

When the most.

Heatmap: 7 days × 7 hour windows. Color = how many pings fell into this category.

9:41
PingMe
Today
Week
Report · 2 of 3
When
scroll.
Deep work
Scroll / social
Entertainment
Scroll / social hour × day
06
09
12
15
18
21
24
mo
tu
we
th
fr
sa
su
peak
su · 21:00
week
14h 42m
09

What you said vs. what was.

Three specific insights comparing claim to fact. The rest — in the graphics.

9:41
PingMe
Today
Week
Report · 3 of 3
What you said,
vs. what was.
Insight 01

You said scroll was…

1.0h / day actually →
2h 06min
Insight 02

You work deepest…

on Tuesdays 9:00–11:30
Insight 03

Sunday evening belongs to…

scrolling and series
Next week →
The weekly loop

Week one is the mirror.
Week two tells you if you moved.

Week one shows you the real baseline. Then you pick one thing to change: less scroll, more deep work, more time with the kids, fewer meetings. Another seven days. Another report. Now you know — did anything shift? Most apps want you back every day. PingMe wants you to forget about it.

10

Pick a goal.

One category. Less or more. Slider seeded with real data from last week.

6:14
Goal · 01 / 01
Pick
one goal.

Next week. Less of this — or more of that. We'll check.

Deep work
Scroll
Entertain.
last week
Scroll: 1h 24min / day
I want…
less
more
daily goal ≤ 1h / day
After 7 days we'll check: scroll under 1h / day
Start the week →
11

Goal visible daily.

The week 2 dashboard adds a second layer: how you're tracking against the goal. Subtle but visible.

15:22
PingMe
Today
Week
Week 02 · Saturday
Day 5

of seven

Pings this week 61%
34 of 56
Goal on track
Scroll: 42min ≤ 1h
12

Goal hit — or not.

Week 2 report opens with the goal: hit or missed, compared to last week.

9:41
PingMe
Today
Week
Report · 3 of 3
The goal
and what
really was.
Weekly goal

Goal: under 1h per day on scroll

42min / day
✓ achieved

last week: 1h 24min ↓

Insight 02

Deep work grew…

from 3.2h → 3.8h / day
Pick a goal →
Nothing leaves

Your week
stays on your phone.

No account. No login. No server. Everything PingMe knows about you sits in your phone's local storage. We don't have a copy. We couldn't sell your data if we wanted to — we don't have it. Delete the app, delete the experiment. That's it.

Seven days.
Three seconds per ping.

PingMe won't fix your week. It just makes it impossible to lie to yourself about it. What you do with that is up to you.

iOS + Android. We'll email you the moment it's ready.