Free tool · no sign-up

Snooze cost calculator

A few minutes each morning doesn't sound like much. Add up your snooze habit, see what it comes to in a year, and keep the receipt.

Snooze length

Minutes from one alarm to the next

9 min

Snoozes each morning

Times you hit it before getting up

3 times

Snooze mornings a week

Days you snooze at all

5 days

Your snooze button takes

4.9days a year

117 hours · time in bed between alarms

Each morning: 27 min
Each week: 2 h 15 min
Each month: 10 hours

22 minutes a morning: What snoozers averaged in a 2023 study of 1,732 adults.
52 weeks a year: Every week counts, holidays included.
Runs in your browser: Nothing to install, and nothing you enter is saved.

Your snooze receipt

Your numbers from the calculator, itemised like a till receipt. Save it as a tall picture, ready for your Story or Status.

Years to count ahead

Optional. Adds a line for as many years as you choose, up to 99.

Receipt style

Your bed

Snooze receipt

Served by: the snooze button

Snooze length: 9 min
Snoozes a morning: 3
Each morning: 27 min
Mornings a week: 5
Each week: 135 min
Weeks a year: 52
Each year: 117 hours

Total: 4.9 days

a year, in bed between alarms

Paid in full by: you

Refunds: an alarm with no snooze button

Thank you for snoozing with us

bedquitter.app

Snooze cost

An alarm with no snooze button.

Bed Quitter is an alarm that keeps ringing until you get out of bed and move. You pick one of seven moves, your phone's camera counts a few reps, and no photo or video from the camera leaves your phone.

A woman stretching her arms overhead beside a sunny window, up and out of bed.

How the calculator works

It multiplies your snooze length by the number of snoozes each morning, then by your snooze mornings a week, then by 52 weeks. Nine minutes, three times, five mornings a week comes to 117 hours a year, almost five whole days.

That's time in bed between alarms. Some of it is light sleep, some of it is lying there, and none of it is the deep sleep you were after.

The receipt prints the same sum line by line. Give it a number of years and it adds those up too, as far ahead as you choose.

What snoozing does

Each snooze lets you drift back into light, broken sleep, and the next alarm pulls you out again. A 2023 study from Stockholm University found that 30 minutes of snoozing cost habitual snoozers about 6 minutes of sleep and didn't harm their mood or thinking that morning.

So snoozing isn't a health scare. It's a time cost: minutes you could spend asleep, by setting the alarm later, or awake, by getting up at the first one.

How to get up at the first alarm

Set it for real	Pick the time you actually need to be up, not one with snoozes built in.
Make it a walk	Put the phone where you have to stand up to reach it.
Keep one time	Wake at the same time every day, weekends within an hour of it.
Find light fast	Open the curtains or step outside in the first few minutes.

More about snooze

How to change your snooze length on iPhone, Samsung and Pixel, and where the 9 minutes came from.

Questions people ask

How long is a snooze?

Usually 5 to 10 minutes. The iPhone has long used 9, Google's Clock app starts at 10 and Samsung's at 5, and most let you change it. In a 2023 Swedish study, snoozers' alarms were about 8 minutes apart on average.

How many people hit snooze?

Most. In a 2023 survey of 1,732 adults, 69% said they snooze or set several alarms at least some of the time. Those who snoozed spent about 22 minutes a morning doing it.

Is hitting snooze bad for you?

Not as bad as its name. In the same study's sleep lab, 30 minutes of snoozing cost about 6 minutes of sleep, and it didn't hurt people's mood or thinking that morning. But the time between alarms is light, broken sleep, so it's mostly time in bed you could have had as real sleep, or as your morning.

Can I share my snooze receipt?

Yes. Save image keeps your receipt as a picture, and where your browser can, Share image sends it straight to another app. The picture is 1080 by 1920 pixels, the tall 9:16 shape Stories use, ready for a Story or a Status, with bedquitter.app printed at the foot. It's drawn in your browser, and your numbers aren't sent anywhere. On a phone set to India's time zone it prints as a cash memo; anyone can switch between India and everywhere else.

How do I stop hitting snooze?

Set the alarm for when you actually need to get up, put the phone where you have to stand to reach it, and keep the same wake-up time every day. An alarm that needs you up and moving, like Bed Quitter, takes the choice away.

More free tools

Free tool