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Web-based service cancels unwanted subscriptions

Mint Premium, available only for iOS users, is $4.99 a month and includes a service in which Mint cancels subscriptions for you.

In the free version, you also can create budgets receive bill reminders view and monitor your credit cards, loans and investments calculate your net worth and track your spending.Ĭost: Most features are free, but upgrades come with a monthly fee. It was the most popular subscription tracking service in C+R Research’s survey, with 34 percent of respondents saying they used it, compared to 10 percent for the next-most-popular service, Truebill.īecause you must link your bank and credit card accounts to Mint, the app is able to find your subscriptions and figure out that they’re different from other recurring payments, such as utility bills. Mint personal finance and budgeting service is part of the Intuit family of companies, which is probably best known for TurboTax but also includes Credit Karma, Mailchimp and QuickBooks. Here are six stand-alone services that can help you manage your recurring charges.

Your credit card may offer a similar service without any extra charge, Blum says, naming Chase and Capital One as two companies with bill tracking “that might be a better option to go with.” But some have free and paid tiers, and some charge their own recurring fee after a short trial period. Those that obligate you to link your accounts to their apps say they have bank-level security and don’t store any of your information, but it’s always best to read the fine print. Some only require you to manually enter your subscriptions. Some require you to link your bank and credit card accounts, a deal breaker on the privacy front for some people. Some do only that, and some offer the service as part of a wider menu of offerings that include budgeting assistance and negotiating lower prices on bills. Several apps and websites promise to help you manage your subscriptions. But I certainly think that for some of them it’s kind of a regular stream of income,” she says.įor you, the money that trickles out every month may threaten to become a torrent when you look at the annual costs. “I’d like to think not all of them are thinking that way.

Kathleen Blum, vice president for shopper insights at C+R Research, says she thinks some companies offer subscriptions with the hope that you’ll forget about the continual costs.