I built a subscription tracker, and the feature I'm least sure about is the one that suggests what to cut. Mine tracks how often you actually open each service over a set period and flags the ones you're paying for but not using.
But usage isn't the whole story. I keep an annual backup service I open maybe twice a year and would never cancel. Meanwhile I dropped a thing I opened weekly because the value stopped justifying the price.
So how do you actually decide? Usage, price, some gut feeling about whether you'd miss it? I'd like to know before I trust my own heuristic too much.
Recurred is launching here on Wednesday if you want to see what I did with it.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I track around 40 subscriptions in 5 currencies. Before writing a line
of code I went through a dozen apps looking for one that could handle
that. A few had most of the features. None went anywhere near the depth
of breakdowns I wanted. A couple were beautiful and did almost nothing.
And nearly all of them wanted a monthly subscription, which is an ironic
thing to ask of a person installing a subscription tracker.
So I built my own.
You add what you pay for by hand, from a list of a few hundred services,
from a CSV, or by describing it in plain English, parsed on your device
if you have Apple Intelligence. Your data lives on your device and syncs
through your own iCloud. The only thing I run is a small Go service that
serves exchange rates. Old habits.
What's in it:
- A calendar of renewals, with reminders before a charge lands or a free
trial converts, at whatever hour suits you
- Any currency, one combined total, rates kept current
- An Optimizer that tracks how often you actually open each service over
a period, then tells you what to cancel and what you'd save
- Widgets, category breakdowns, price history, and a 3-year timeline
built from what you really paid rather than today's price
Two things I'm allowed to brag about. It's my first mobile app, written
from scratch and fully native in Swift. And the Mac version is a real
Mac app, not the iPhone build stretched sideways, which took
considerably longer than the rest of it.
It's free. Every feature, no paid tier, no ads, nothing sold. I may add
paid features later if enough people use it, but nothing that's free
today is going behind a wall.
Two things I'd love feedback on: whether the Optimizer's usage tracking
matches how you'd actually decide to cancel something, and what's
missing before you'd move off a spreadsheet.
And out of curiosity: what's the subscription you keep paying for and
never use? Mine was Coursera.