13 Dec 2025  →  20 Sep 2026

Our Story,
told in numbers.

Nine months of WhatsApp messages, WhatsApp calls and Discord calls — parsed, counted and put on a clock. Everything below is computed from the raw export; nothing is rounded up for romance.

The headline

Play with it

Look up any word

Type a word or paste an emoji. Every word used 25 times or more is in here, plus the 60 most-used emoji — 1,244 terms in total.

On this day

Pick any date between 13 December 2025 and 20 September 2026.

Who wrote this?

A real message from the chat, picked at random. Guess the sender.

 

Volume over time

Messages per month

Who typed how much, month by month. June 2026 was the loudest month of the story.

Messages per day

Every single day of the span, stacked by sender. Hover for the exact day.

When we talk

Hour of day × day of week

Message count per cell. Darker = busier. The two hot bands are the morning wake-up window and the long late-evening stretch.

Messages by hour

All 115k messages folded into a single 24-hour clock.

How fast we reply

Gap between one person's message and the other's answer, when the answer came within six hours.

The calls

Call hours per month

WhatsApp carried the early months; Discord joined in February 2026 and took a real share from August.

How long a call lasts

874 calls bucketed by length. The median is under an hour, but the tail is where the hours live.

Call hours per day

Measured talk time per calendar day across both apps.

The time budget

This is the part that actually costs hours. Calls are measured — the apps logged them. Chatting is estimated from what was typed and read, using rates you can change below. Two estimates are given because they answer different questions.

Where the hours went (per person)

How the chat estimate is built (assumptions, in full)

Time together per day — talked vs typed

Measured call hours against the estimated chat-window engagement for the same day. These two can overlap in reality (you can text during a call), so read the stack as an upper bound.

What 1,149 hours of calling equals

How much is that, really?

Your chat, against the bookshelf

Total words written between you, measured against books people actually finish. Hover a bar for the book's own word count.

Other ways to picture it

The same pile of words and messages, in units that are easier to hold in your head.

Nikkesha, specifically

You don't even laugh with the same emoji

Emoji that belong almost entirely to one of you. Two people, two hearts, two laughs — and one 🙈 that Youri has never once typed.

Her Dutch

Dutch words in Nikkesha's messages, with the first date she used each one. She out-Dutches the Dutch one three and a half to one.

What she actually sends

Her most-repeated messages, exactly as typed.

Phrases that are hers alone

Three-word phrases she uses far more than he does.

Emoji per message, cooling off

She started as emoji-heavy as him and quietly stopped; he never did. By September she spends one emoji where he spends three and a half.

Little patterns

First times

The first day each word appears in the chat — and how many times it has been said since. Day numbers count from the very first message on 13 December 2025.

The great nickname swap

Each of you picked up the other's pet name — and then out-used them with it.

Who used the emoji first

For the most-used emoji: who typed it first, and how long the other took to catch it.

Becoming the same person

How alike your two emoji profiles are each month (similarity over the top 25 emoji). December: two people with different habits. June: nearly the same hand.

Messages getting shorter

Average characters per message. Careful paragraphs at the start, then the short rapid-fire shorthand of people who talk all day.

Bedtime, drifting

The clock time of the last message before a night's silence, averaged per month. Hover for how long that silence lasted.

“I love you”, month by month

Messages containing the whole phrase. He said it first and led until March; she has led ever since.

Reply speed around the clock

Average seconds to answer, by the hour the message arrived (replies within an hour only).

Words that are his

The words he over-uses most, compared to her.

Words that are hers

Same test, other direction.

Fingerprints

Youri's top emoji

Nikkesha's top emoji

Most-used words — Youri

Most-used words — Nikkesha