Life Hours: Expense Tracker
In developmentA pre-purchase regret calculator. Scan a price, see what it really costs you, decide with a clear head.
Early look
What it looks like today
A real screen from the build in progress — not a mockup, and not final. Status, pricing, and copy will keep changing before launch.
The loop
How it works
- 1
Price it
Photograph the product or paste a link, then say what it is and what it costs.
- 2
See the real cost
The price becomes hours of your own life. “11 hours. That's all of Tuesday.”
- 3
Decide
Skip, Wait 24–48 hours, or Buy — with no guilt language either way.
- 4
Get followed up
Every Buy earns a 30-day “Worth it?” check-in, which sharpens the app's read on you.
Features
Kept total
Every Skip banks its amount into a running total — a visible scoreboard for money that stayed yours.
Kept-if-grown
See what your Kept total would be worth today had it gone into gold, a world index, bitcoin, or a plain deposit a year ago — strictly backward-looking, never a forecast.
Regulars
Anything priced twice becomes a Regular, one tap away next time — the weekly coffee, the daily pack of cigarettes.
Wait timers
A cooling-off period of your choosing, with a reminder the moment it ends.
Insights
A personal regret score and category breakdowns, built around one question: does sleeping on it actually work — for you specifically?
Share cards
Post what something costs in hours of a nurse's wage, a teacher's, or your own — never your income, by construction.
Privacy, by construction
- ✓Your income never leaves your phone — it lives in the device keychain, not the app's database.
- ✓No ads. No selling of individual data. Not now, not later.
- ✓The core loop works fully offline, with no account required to start.
- ✓A share card can never show your price and your personal hourly rate together — enforced in code, not policy.
Pricing
Free
- Unlimited items, photos, links and logged expenses
- Kept total and skip streak
- Regulars with per-habit totals
- 30-day follow-ups
- 90-day ledger history
Plus
- Regret score and full Insights
- Kept-if-grown against any asset
- Monthly and yearly recaps
- Goals and goal-based cards
- Full ledger history and CSV export
FAQ
Does Life Hours see my income?
No. Your income and fixed costs are stored on your device's secure keychain and never uploaded anywhere unless you explicitly enable sync — and even then, they're encrypted before they leave your phone.
What platforms is Life Hours on?
iOS and Android. Life Hours is currently in development — join the waitlist to hear the moment it's available.
Is Life Hours free?
Yes. The core loop — pricing things, deciding, tracking what you've kept — is free with no account required. A paid Plus tier adds deeper insights and personalization.
Does Life Hours run ads or sell my data?
No, on principle. See the privacy section above — it's a hard rule for this app, not a policy that can quietly change.