U.S. Debt vs Borrowed Time

Track the U.S. national debt in real time with official Treasury Department data. See America’s debt grow second-by-second with the cleanest, most accurate debt tracker on the App Store. LIVE DEBT COUNTER • Real-time national debt ticker based on official U.S. Treasury data • Watch the debt increase second by second • See exactly how much debt accumulates while you watch HOME SCREEN WIDGET • Add the live national debt counter directly to your home screen • Stay updated without even opening the app KEY STATISTICS • Total national debt • Debt per citizen • Debt per taxpayer • Debt-to-GDP ratio • Annual federal deficit • Interest accruing in real time INTERACTIVE CHARTS • 10-year debt-to-GDP timeline • Federal spending by category • Domestic vs. foreign debt holders • Top foreign holders by country • Debt by presidential administration PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE • Compare national debt to billionaire wealth • Track historical debt milestones • Trillion-dollar debt tracker • State-by-state debt breakdown OFFICIAL DATA SOURCE All data comes directly from the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data API (fiscaldata.treasury.gov). When Treasury data is delayed on weekends or holidays, estimated figures are clearly labeled. CLEAN & SIMPLE • Beautiful dark mode interface • Share statistics with friends • No account required • No ads • Updated daily

Borrowed Time is a live debt clock for people who still get taxes taken out of their paychecks. The number is official — pulled straight from the U.S. Treasury's Debt to the Penny dataset and animated between updates at the pace Treasury actually reported. No estimates pulled from thin air, no drama without a citation. THE BIG BOARD • Total public debt outstanding, ticking live • Debt held by the public and intragovernmental holdings • Your share — per person and per household, from Census figures • The interest burn: what carrying the debt costs this fiscal year, accruing every second • A 90-day trajectory chart of real Treasury records A NEW BACKDROP EVERY DAY The app's look rotates daily through eight original, hand-drawn slices of classic Americana — Route 66 at dusk, a neon roadside diner, a night ballgame, the drive-in, a WPA national-parks poster, Main Street bunting, the space race, and heartland prairie. Same honest number, different view of the country carrying it. AMERICAN VOICES A rotating deck pairs defining words from American history and public life with sourced fiscal, civic, and accountability facts. Each card names the speaker and links separately to the quotation record and the underlying source. WIDGET INCLUDED A home-screen widget with the live number, the daily backdrop, and an American voice of the day. FROM THE AMERICAN ARCHIVE Each month surfaces one public-domain photograph from the national collections — Ansel Adams' Tetons, Lange's Migrant Mother, Earthrise, the March on Washington — with its citation and a link to the holding institution. No account. No tracking. No data collected. Free with no ads; an optional tip jar supports development and unlocks nothing. Just the scoreboard, its sources, and voices from American history.