LifeReceipt

What it does

LifeReceipt shows you exactly what your phone addiction is costing you. It prints your wasted day as a receipt: screen time, delivery orders, sleep debt. Then it helps you earn the time back. Every screen-time app blocks time. None of them touch money, and for most people, doomscrolling and impulse-buying (DoorDash at 11pm, a Shein cart at 2am) are the same low-friction dopamine loops, not two separate problems. LifeReceipt puts both on one bill.

LifeReceipt prints your wasted day as a receipt: screen time, delivery orders, sleep debt, goals missed. Then it helps you earn the time back.

Every day costs you something. LifeReceipt rings it up — hours on TikTok, delivery orders, sleep you didn't get — and prints the total on one receipt. A dashboard shows you a chart and you forget it. A receipt shows you a total and you don't. Ring up the apps that ate your evening. Each one gets a line, an hour count, and a dollar figure based on what your time is actually worth. The $12 you didn't think about, four times a week. Logged as line items, totalled at the bottom, and carried into a weekly figure you can't round down. Read from Apple Health, with your permission. The hour you lost to one more episode shows up on the same bill as everything else. The receipt prints line by line…from life-receipt.com

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