HealthKit’s supposed to make it easier to stay healthy. This app doesn’t care about your health. It wants you to die, and it’s going to tell you exactly when that will happen.
The app is called Deadline, and it’s not much different from those death calculators you see online. You just load up the app, fill out a short quiz, and then Deadline taps into iOS 8’s Healthkit functionality to create a timer that counts away towards your death.
What makes Deadline slightly different from other morbid death calculators is that, since it taps into Healthkit, you can conceivably work out hard enough and live an active enough life to increase the duration of your life. Most of these calculators inexorably start ticking time off your life the moment you set them; this one, at least in theory, can go up too.
Of course, these death calculators are all failed prophecies waiting to happen, so how much value they actually provide is widely debatable. But if you need a kick in the pants to live a healthier life, a constant reminder of your rapidly encroaching mortality could very well help.
Deadline costs $0.99 on the iOs App Store.
Source: iTunes
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
7 responses to “This app uses iOS 8 HealthKit to tell you when you’re going to die”
Can I get my money back if I die earlier?
Only if you die within six months of buying it.
lol, this is too funny, somehow, I can see myself using this for fun…
Pity you can’t rig it for your friends. I’d like it to pop up a countdown with the results.
what is the app name of World Clock Today View Widget shown in the above pic! Thank you :)
It’s by the same developer. Just look at his apps.
oh! nice, thank you! Just downloaded the app :)