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4 Apps That Help Track Your Streaming Subscription Bills
Are you making payments for a streaming service you barely use? Here’s how to keep up.
Your streaming subscriptions for Netflix, Spotify, Disney Plus and other accounts are probably all on autopay. Because you don’t have to think about due dates, that may mean you’ve overlooked the monthly expense or who to contact if you want to cancel. You could be spending more money than you want by paying for a phantom streaming service.Â
Is Netflix billing you directly? Has your forgotten Hulu 30-day free trial turned into a paid subscription? Did you buy your Disney Plus subscription through a third party like Apple, Amazon or Verizon? With all the streaming price changes creeping in, unwatched content, and missed opportunities for deals, it’s a good idea to keep up with who’s billing you, when and for how much. Luckily, there are apps that can make keeping track of your streaming subs a lot easier.Â
Here’s our list of recommendations for apps that help you track payments for your streaming service subscriptions. Most of these offer a free option, but you can upgrade to a paid version if you want extra features.Â
Read more:Â Keep Up With What’s Streaming on TV Using These 5 Free Apps
Formerly known as Truebill, Rocket Money is a well-rounded budgeting app with the option to track your streaming subscriptions. There are free and paid versions available.
It uses Plaid to link your financial accounts and syncs information about automatic payments from your bank, credit card or services like PayPal. After signing up and setting up multifactor authentication, you can begin managing your recurring payments. Rocket Money provides a snapshot of your yearly spending on subscriptions like Spotify and Netflix, and you can also view upcoming payments including a countdown to the due date. A calendar icon takes you to a screen that outlines all payments for the month.Â
You can cancel subscriptions within the app, view your history of payments or remove them from the Rocket Money list. There is a seven-day free trial, but its recurring fee is on a sliding scale from $4 to $12 per month, billed annually. Rocket Money is easy to use, but the free account lacks some features such as having the app cancel your streaming accounts.Â
Hiatus is a budget- and bill-managing app that includes a subscription manager feature. When you create an account, you can track your streaming services in an organized “upcoming bills” category. The app also allows you to enter missing subscriptions manually.
Hiatus connects your financial institutions through Plaid, with options that include banks, PayPal or the Google Play Store. In addition to showing all your streaming subscriptions on autopay, the app provides insights on how much you’ve spent at different intervals — seven days, 30 days and the last 365 days. You may opt to set spending limits for your streaming services using the budget feature.
You can use the app for free, but if you sign up for a premium plan at $8 per month, Hiatus offers other features like canceling your subscriptions on your behalf. You also have the option to cancel on your own. Hiatus is available for Android, iOS and web browsers.Â
Like Hiatus and Rocket Money, Bobby helps you keep up with your streaming subscriptions and how much you’re spending on them. Unlike Hiatus and Rocket Money, Bobby does not require you to link your financial information to track your recurring payments.Â
Instead, you click through the app’s list of providers to create a list of streaming subscriptions. Then you manually enter information such as how much and how often you pay. We admit this may not be helpful if you can’t remember all of your active services. But with Bobby, you can receive notifications for upcoming due dates, organize the bills into a category and monitor your average spending on streaming. And it’s free.Â
Foreign currency breakdowns and security features like Touch ID and passcodes are available. Bobby can be downloaded on iOS devices only.Â
Trim allows you to find, track and cancel subscriptions at no charge. Like Hiatus and Rocket Money, you can connect your financial institution through Plaid, and the app will collate all your recurring subscription payments.Â
You can view your transaction history for each streamer and cancel a service within the app or by visiting its site directly. Trim is not available as a mobile app, but you can access it on a web browser on your phone or other device.
Streaming service bill tracker FAQs
What about privacy?
Sharing access to your financial information with a third party raises genuine concerns about security. We urge you to review the privacy policies for each service to learn how information is used and stored. With the exception of Bobby, all the services on this list use Plaid to connect your accounts. Plaid does not provide your login credentials to Rocket Money, Trim or Hiatus, so none of the apps receive or store your banking or credit card information.Â
Why isn’t Mint on this list?
Mint (by Intuit) is a popular user-friendly app that’s used for budgeting. There’s a feature meant to help you track bills and subscriptions, but when I clicked on the Subscriptions tab in the Bills section, none of my subscriptions or recurring payments showed up. I did receive a message saying Mint couldn’t find any subscriptions in my transaction history. Additionally, we’ve seen numerous users reporting that the subscription feature is unreliable.
Are there any other apps you considered?
In addition to Mint and the four tools on this list, we checked out other budget/subscription tracker apps, including PocketGuard, Wallet by Budgetbakers, Billbot, Petal and Everydollar. We decided to highlight the four we discussed here based on robust features, accessibility, fees and ease of use.Â
PocketGuard syncs with many banks but you’re unable to link PayPal and other third parties like the Google Play Store. Billbot is not available for newer versions of Android, Petal requires you to apply for an account and EveryDollar charges $13 monthly if you don’t want to manually track your financial transactions. To digitally sync Wallet with your financial institutions, you must pay for a premium account.
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In photos: Key takeaways from day one of the UN General Assembly
World leaders descended on New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly, where the agenda covers topics from wars to the risks posed by AI.
World leaders descended on New York this week for the annual United Nations General Assembly, where the agenda spans the U.S.-Iran war and Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine to the fragile ceasefire in Gaza and the risks posed by artificial intelligence.
Nearly 130 heads of state and government started taking the podium on Tuesday, including U.S. President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Brazilâs Luiz InĂĄcio Lula da Silva, Jordanâs King Abdullah II and Qatarâs Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani are also attending.
Motorcades, road closures and security details for visiting leaders have choked midtown Manhattan. Inside UN headquarters, delegates face a week of back-to-back speeches and sideline meetings that come at a crucial time for a world order already under strain.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will skip the assembly but head to Washington for a high-level summit with Trump on Wednesday. Leaders from India and Russia are also staying away.
Trump on Tuesday told world leaders at the assembly that he faces a âbig decisionâ: make a deal with Iran or âannihilateâ the Islamic Republic. He later told reporters that U.S. officials held a âvery goodâ three-hour meeting with Iranian envoys on the sidelines, reviving fragile hopes for a diplomatic off-ramp to the seven-month war.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung set out a three-part plan for âpeaceful coexistenceâ with North Korea. It calls on Pyongyang to âfirst halt the advancementâ of its nuclear program before reducing it.
Brazilâs Lula spoke first, as his country traditionally does. âBrazilian democracy belongs to Brazilians,â Lula said. âBrazil is nobodyâs backyard.â He said the UN âis failing in one of its highest missions: to save humanity from the scourge of war.â
Trump also signed a security agreement with Denmark and Greenland that expands U.S. military access in the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland.
Trump then met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for about 40 minutes. He pressed for a Russia-Ukraine energy truce and backed a ban on U.S. diesel exports as fuel prices hit records before the midterms.
French President Emmanuel Macron gave his own UN address. âThere can be no peace without justice,â he said. After meeting Trump, he pledged to push for a moratorium on strikes on Ukraineâs energy grid.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Gaza âthe most inhumane, most shameful concentration camp of our time,â prompting Israelâs delegation to walk out. Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, will address the assembly by video after being denied a U.S. visa.
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Oil Prices Drop as U.S. and Iran Hold Hours-Long UN Talks
Oil prices fell as U.S.-Iran talks at the U.N. raised expectations that supply disruptions could ease. Brent and WTI futures declined, while optimism grew around a possible diplomatic settlement.
Oil declined on Wednesday as optimism grew that supply disruptions could ease after U.S.-Iran talks, lifting hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the Middle East conflict.
Futures on the international benchmark Brent crude for November delivery fell 0.71% to $98.55 a barrel as of 3:04 a.m. ET. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures for November slipped 1.26% to $89.36 per barrel.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that U.S. officials had a âvery good meetingâ with Iranâs delegation, which lasted about three hours. Earlier, during his address to the U.N., Trump said he faced a âbig decisionâ over whether to make a deal with Tehran or âannihilateâ the country.
Reuters reported Tuesday that Iran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within a week if the U.S. agrees to reduce military pressure and lift its blockade of Iranian ports.
âPakistanâs mediation efforts with Tehran could also reduce the risk of a broader escalation,â said Paolo Broccardo, chief executive officer at private digital bank BankPro.
He said oil prices were also unlikely to surge sharply in the near term.
âOver the past five consecutive sessions, the price has fallen by almost 12%, retreating once again from the âintervention zoneâ above $100, where we have repeatedly seen intensified peace-building efforts from both sides,â Broccardo said.
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CNBC Daily Open: Nothing artificial about ‘Super Intelligence’
President Donald Trump seeks to rebrand AI ahead of his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, while rejecting a “globalist scheme” to regulate the technology.
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Hello, this is Leonie Kidd coming to you from London. Welcome to another edition of CNBCâs Daily Open.
President Donald Trumpâs passion for renaming places is now extending to renaming technological developments.
His latest effort is to rebrand AI as âSuper Intelligence.â
However, it will take more than a facelift for the most transformative technology in a generation to meet the expectations for a global safety approach, especially ahead of the meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will be welcomed to Washington D.C., later on Wednesday.
Read on for more.
What you need to know today
âThe use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake… It is not fake. Itâs actually amazing.â
The words of U.S. President Donald Trump as he used his keynote speech at the United Nations General Assembly to call for the renaming of AI as âSuper Intelligence.â
His support for allowing AI (or Super Intelligence) to develop at a winning pace comes as his global peers look to reach an agreement on safety rules around the powerful technology.
Later on Wednesday, Trump will greet Chinaâs Xi Jinping in an arrival ceremony ahead of Thursdayâs state visit, where AI has become one of the key talking points between the two superpowers.
Speed versus safety
The CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman and Anthropic boss Dario Amodei are expected to address the United Nations Security Council later on Wednesday. They are set to be joined by Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue to debate AI safety and regulation.
The appearance follows calls to slow the breakneck pace of the model frontier â warnings Trump has called a âhoaxâ and âscam.â
Frontier FOMO
Investors are taking an optimistic view, with a rally in technology stocks on Tuesday leading the Nasdaq to another fresh high. The tech-heavy index hit a new all-time intraday peak and achieved a record close.
Futures are flat in early trading on Wednesday amid a broadly positive handover from Asia.
Oil oscillations
Crude prices are lower on Wednesday following news that U.S. officials had a âvery good meetingâ with the Iranian delegation on the sidelines of the UN meeting.
President Trump said the discussion with officials lasted about three hours. Earlier in his address to the U.N., he said he has a âbig decisionâ over whether to reach a deal with Tehran or âannihilateâ the country.
According to regional media reports, Iran has been communicating its conditions for ending the seven-month war with the U.S. through a Qatari mediator.
â Leonie Kidd
*Please note, the Daily Open EMEA will be coming to you from my colleagues in Singapore for the next few days*
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And Finally…
Anthropic and OpenAI roll out cheaper models in first release since call for slowdown
Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday each announced new, less costly artificial intelligence models as both frontier labs continue to face stiff competition from cheaper, open-weight competitors.
OpenAI introduced additional tiers to its GPT-6 family, with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, slashing the API prices by 50% compared with GPT-5.6 promotional pricing.
Sol, which is a tier below Astra, is meant for more complex workloads like coding, while the companyâs Luna offering is geared toward âhigh-volume tasksâ such as extracting information or summarizing documents, the company wrote.
Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, its latest release in the new Claude 5.5 model family.
â CJ Haddad
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