The app that cancels subscriptions in one tap, not five
Cancelling should be the easy part. Instead it is a hunt: Settings, your name, Subscriptions, the right entry, and finally the button, then a different hunt on Google Play. On Top of Subs keeps every subscription and free trial in one list and, when one has to go, opens the store's own cancellation screen with a single tap. Anything billed straight to your card gets a walkthrough instead. Free on iPhone and Android, with no bank login.
Why no app can press cancel for you, and what ours does instead
Apple and Google keep the cancel button on their own account screens and do not hand that action to other apps. Any tool that says otherwise is either a concierge for card-billed services or a tracker with a bold headline.
That leaves a real gap, because the screen exists and it is buried. On an iPhone it sits four taps deep. On Google Play it hides behind your profile picture and a payments menu most people have never opened. The hunt is the reason "how do I cancel" gets searched every single day.
On Top of Subs closes the gap from the other side. Every subscription in your list is stored with the channel that bills it, so when you tap cancel the app already knows where to go: Apple's subscription sheet for an App Store subscription, the Play Store subscriptions center for a Google Play one. You land on the exact screen, press the store's button, and you are done. For services that bill your card directly, the same tap opens a walkthrough for that company.
It is the most a cancellation app can honestly do, and it turns the part everyone dreads into the shortest step.
From a charge you resent to a cancelled plan in under a minute
- Add the subscription. Name, price, next renewal date, and where it is billed. It takes a few seconds and the entry never leaves your phone.
- Decide. With everything side by side, the ones you have not opened in months and the two services doing the same job stand out. The monthly total helps the decision along.
- Tap cancel. The app opens the store's own cancellation screen for App Store and Google Play subscriptions, or the walkthrough for a card-billed service. Confirm, and the renewal is off.
App Store subscriptions
One tap opens Apple's subscription sheet, the screen behind Settings, your name, and Subscriptions. That covers everything billed to your Apple Account, including free trials about to convert.
Google Play subscriptions
One tap opens the Play Store subscriptions center, which works the same whether you reach it from an Android phone or a browser. No profile-menu archaeology required.
Card-billed services
Cable, gyms, streaming bought on the web, cloud storage: the ones with no store in between get a walkthrough, starting with our Xfinity guide.
What happens once you cancel
The tap ends the renewal, not the service. Three things worth knowing so the result matches what you expected.
You keep what you paid for. On both stores a cancelled subscription runs to the end of the current billing period. A cancelled free trial normally runs to its end date too, though the app decides whether to honour that, so if you still want the trial days, cancel a day or two before the end rather than at the last minute. Apple's own advice is to cancel at least 24 hours before a trial ends.
Refunds are a separate ask. Cancelling stops future charges; it does not reverse the last one. Apple takes refund requests through its report-a-problem page and Google through your Play order history, and each decides case by case.
Card-billed services can lag. A gym or a cable provider may hold you to a notice period, so a charge can land once more after you cancel. Keep the entry in your list until the next statement confirms it stopped. Our guide to choosing a cancellation tool covers when a concierge service is worth paying for, and the App Store and Google Play guides walk each store screen in detail.
Before you tap cancel
Yes, within the limit Apple and Google set. Subscriptions billed through the App Store or Google Play can only be cancelled on the store's own screen, so no outside app can press that button. On Top of Subs is free on iPhone and Android and opens that screen in one tap from your list. Services that bill your card directly get a step-by-step walkthrough instead.
Each subscription in your list carries the channel that bills it. Tap cancel on an App Store subscription and the app opens Apple's subscription sheet, the same screen you would reach through Settings, your name, then Subscriptions. Tap cancel on a Google Play subscription and it opens the Play Store subscriptions center. You confirm on that screen, and the store handles the rest.
Not for anything billed through the App Store or Google Play; both stores keep that action to themselves. Concierge services such as Rocket Money Premium can contact a company on your behalf, but only for subscriptions the company bills directly, and only on a paid plan with a linked bank account. On Top of Subs takes the other route: no login, no fee, and the store's cancel screen one tap away.
Those have no store in the middle, so the cancellation lives in the company's own account settings or on a phone call. On Top of Subs keeps them in the same list as everything else, marked as card-billed, and points you to a walkthrough for the service, such as the Xfinity guide. You still see the renewal date and get the reminder before it bills.
Not for a paid period: on both stores a cancelled subscription keeps running until the end of the period you already paid for. A cancelled free trial usually runs to its end date as well, but a few apps end it as soon as auto-renew is off, so cancel a day or two before the trial ends rather than on the first day if you still want it. Refunds are a separate request to Apple or Google and are not automatic.
Nothing to download and nothing per month. The app is free with ads on iPhone and Android, and a one-time $19.99 Lifetime purchase removes the ads for good. There is no subscription to the subscription app, which felt like the only reasonable way to build one.
Stop the ones you don't want. Keep the ones you do.
Every subscription and free trial in one list, with the store's own cancel screen one tap away. Free on iOS & Android.