Everything on that screen wants a few more seconds.
You unlock the screen for one small thing: the weather, a time, an address. The rest of the screen asks for more. Here is how much time phones get, from the best counts we found.
- 3 h 46 min
a day online on a phone, for the average internet user.
DataReportal, Digital 2025 (GWI survey). Worldwide, internet users aged 16+, self-reported. - 57 days
a year, if you add those hours up.Estimate
Our arithmetic on the figure above. 226 min x 365 days, divided into 24-hour days.How we worked it out
226 minutes a day x 365 = 82,490 minutes = 1,375 hours = 57.3 days.
- 600 million
people in a phone app at any given moment, averaged over the day and night.Estimate
Sensor Tower, State of Mobile 2026, plus our arithmetic. Worldwide, iOS and Google Play.How we worked it out
5.3 trillion hours spent in apps in 2025, divided by the 8,760 hours in a year, is about 605 million at any average moment. Real use peaks in the evening and dips at night.
- 80 apps
installed on a typical phone, and about 40 of them opened in a month.
App Annie 2017 retrospective, reported by PYMNTS. Installed apps, most markets tracked, 2017. The newest public count we found. - 45%
of U.S. adults tried to cut back on their smartphone in the past year. A quarter of them say it went very well.
Pew Research Center, September 2026. Survey of 9,750 U.S. adults, May 26 to June 1, 2026, self-reported.
U.S. adults who say they spend too much time on their smartphone
One number, two ways to use it.
Text a question and get a short answer back. Call to talk about your day and it is saved for you to read later. Quick things on a call are in beta.
Quick things
Ask for the weather, a definition, a conversion or a note. The answer comes back as a text you can read on any phone. Reminders and directions are in beta.
- weather saturdaySaturday in Montreal: 18 C and sunny all day.
- Youremind me at 5 to call momMirrahDone. I'll text you at 5:00pm: call mom.
- Yourecipe lentil soupMirrahLentil soup, 40 min. Lentils, onion, carrot, garlic, cumin, stock. Full steps in the next text.
Talk it through
Call and talk, up to 2 minutes on Free. You get a transcript, a tone estimate from your words and the tasks you mentioned. If you switch it on, a map of the parts of your life you talk about.
- (a 5 minute call about work and a hard week)Saved. Tone estimate: mostly sad. Work came up most. 1 task found: text Sam. It's on your page.
- Youremind me saturday 10am to text samMirrahGot it. Saturday 10:00am: text Sam.
Example conversations, written to show the format.
How a call works.
Pick any stop on the line to see what happens there.
You call or text. One number, from any phone, a flip phone included. You sign up once on the website. After that, your number is how it knows you.
One number, from any phone, a flip phone included. You sign up once on the website. After that, your number is how it knows you.
Mirrah works out what you asked for and which tool does that job. If something is unclear, it asks one short question instead of guessing.
Weather, a reminder, a recipe, a note. Each tool is small and does a single thing, so it is easy to check that it worked.
Answers come back as a text. On a call (beta), short answers are spoken and the details follow by text.
Transcripts, tasks, notes and reminders wait on the website, plus your life map if you turn it on. Look when you want to.
Talk it through.
If you switch on the life map, each part of your life you talk about becomes a tree. The ones you talk about grow. The quiet ones stay small, so you can notice them. It is off until you turn it on.
People you mention
Each person gets a small card built only from what you said about them. You can rename, correct or hide anyone.
- Mom9 mentionscomes up when you talk about weekends
- Sam5 mentionsa friend you plan things with
Example data. Your own map is worked out from your transcripts when you open it, and friends never see it.