Forgotten subscriptions can drain hundreds of euros a year. Here is how to find every active subscription and cancel the ones you no longer want. The cancelling is the easy part - the work is tracking down charges that are spread across app stores, PayPal, your bank and the services themselves.
The average person is paying for three to five subscriptions they have completely forgotten about. Streaming services from a free trial, a fitness app from January, an old news site - they keep charging until you notice. This guide walks you through finding every active subscription and cancelling the ones you no longer want.
Where to start depends on what you have to work from: an iPhone, an Android phone, a bank statement, or your inbox for a complete list in one pass.
Where do you want to start?
Most subscriptions send a receipt or renewal notice every billing cycle. Open your inbox and search for terms like "receipt", "invoice", "billing", "renewal", "subscription", and "charged". Check your spam folder too - some billing emails land there.
This manual method works, but it takes time. A faster alternative is to automatically find your subscriptions with a tool like Suprascribe, which connects to your Gmail, Outlook, or iCloud and surfaces every subscription-related email in minutes - without storing any email content.
Go back at least three months on your bank and credit card statements. Look for small recurring charges - €2.99, €9.99, €14.99 are common subscription prices. Note the merchant name for anything you do not recognise.
Many subscriptions are billed through the Apple App Store, Google Play, or PayPal rather than directly to your card. Check each platform separately:
| Billing channel | Where to look | What you can cancel there |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions | Anything bought inside an app on an Apple device |
| Google Play | Play Store → Payments & subscriptions | Anything bought inside an Android app |
| PayPal | Settings → Payments → Manage automatic payments | Anything set up as an automatic payment |
| Amazon | Account → Memberships & Subscriptions | Prime, Audible, Kindle Unlimited, Prime Video Channels |
| The service itself | The service's own account settings | Browser signups, Stripe or Paddle billing, direct debits |
Once you have a full list, go service by service. Most subscriptions can be cancelled from the account settings of the respective service. If you struggle to find the cancellation page, search for "[service name] cancel subscription" - consumer protection rules in the EU require services to make cancellation as easy as signing up.
Subscriptions accumulate slowly. The best way to stay in control is to keep a live list - every service, its cost, and its renewal date. Suprascribe provides a free dashboard for exactly this: add subscriptions manually or let the email scanner keep it updated automatically.
Suprascribe keeps that list for you. Quick Unsubscribe then takes you straight to the cancel page for each service on it, so the hardest part of cancelling - finding the button - is already done.
This is the hub for the topic. Each guide below covers one service or platform in detail.
Your iPhone has a single screen listing every subscription Apple bills you for. It is genuinely good - and it is also only half the picture, because anything charged directly to your card never appears there at all.
Google Play gives Android users something iPhone does not: the option to pause a subscription instead of killing it. It also shares the same blind spot - it only knows about the subscriptions Google itself bills.
The fastest way to find every subscription you are paying for is to let a scanner read the receipts already sitting in your inbox. Here is how automatic discovery works, and how it compares to doing it by hand. No bank connection is involved - every subscription you have ever started sent you a receipt, so the record you need is already in your email.
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