What this meeting costs

This watch app turns your pay into a number that goes up. Dial in what you earn — by the hour, day, week, month or year — with the Digital Crown, and press Start. The screen shows the money accumulating, second by second, in digits large enough to be read by the person sitting across the table. That is the whole app. - One tap to start. One tap to stop. - Lower your wrist and the amount stays on the screen. The count is worked out from when the session started, so nothing is lost while the watch sleeps. - Every session ends in a receipt, with the elapsed time and the rate that produced it. Editing your rate later never rewrites history. - Receipts are restated in everyday units. Coffees. Tanks of fuel. Days of paid leave. - Sessions shorter than a minute are not recorded, and the app says so. Meeting Cost Pro, a single one-time purchase, adds: - Room mode multiplies the total by the number of people in the meeting. - Presets remember your usual meetings: one tap sets the room and the target. - Set a burn target and feel it approach: a tap at half, again at three quarters, at ninety per cent, and something less polite at the target. Then two more past it, because the timer does not stop. That is the joke. - The full receipt archive on screen. The free app lists the last three, keeps every one and counts them in every total. - Totals for today, this week and this month, and your personal worst. - Expensive receipts graduate to business flights, used cars and new kitchens. - A complication keeps the live amount on your watch face. The free app is complete, and starting a session is never locked. No subscription. There is also a tip jar. It unlocks nothing. Everything you type stays on your Apple Watch: your rate, your meetings and your receipts never leave it. No account, no usage analytics, no tracking. Purchases go through the App Store, and the RevenueCat SDK, which counts our sales, contacts RevenueCat's servers while the app runs, with an anonymous ID and a device identifier, and nothing you typed. There is no iPhone app, because there is nothing for it to do. It is a joke told with arithmetic. It is not a time tracker, it does not produce invoices, and it will not help you bill anybody.