The new app, called Death Clock, uses artificial intelligence to predict exactly when you’ll die based on data like your diet choices, exercise, stress levels and sleep.
Available for Android and iOS in the US, the app offers free date of death predictions and personalized recommendations through a $40 annual subscription.
Brent Franson, the app’s developer, told Bloomberg that the AI was trained on a dataset of 1,200 life expectancy studies involving 53 million participants to provide more accurate predictions than traditional actuarial spreadsheets.
The app suggests lifestyle changes to increase longevity and features a countdown clock showing your expected date of death to the day, along with an image of the Grim Reaper.
Despite its morbid premise, Death Clock is proving wildly popular, with 125,000 downloads since its July release, according to Bloomberg.
“Interest in the app has been growing since its launch earlier this fall! Right now, we’re #12 in Health & Fitness in the App Store,” said a spokesperson for the app, adding that the company plans to launch the new feature. that it “uses artificial intelligence to accurately predict what you’ll look like in your 70s with both the good and the addictive.”
The application is aimed at users who are interested in improving their habits and thus extending their lifespan.
Franson said such advances in predicting mortality could help individuals make informed decisions about retirement planning and saving for the future.
“There is probably no more important date in your life than the day you die,” he said.
First, the user is asked a series of questions about age, diet, health and lifestyle. Each question has a link to a study that underlines the value of the question.
After answering the app’s questions, she told the 25-year-old reporter that she would die on Monday, May 24, 2077, at the age of 77, with the most likely cause of death being cancer, liver disease or heart disease. .
If he had healthier lifestyle habits, it suggested he could live to be 99, and asked if he wished to share the results on social media.
It then offers the option to use the free trial for the paid version of the app to “assess” the user’s strengths and weaknesses and show you likely causes of death, strengths and weaknesses, and lifestyle, medical and mental health factors.
It then provides a “longevity plan” that advises the user to take various supplements, use fitness tools (like smartwatches), get screened for various diseases, and talk to a doctor about certain issues.
