Cancel unused subscriptions without missing renewals you need

The goal isn’t zero subscriptions

The goal is no silent waste — paying for tools and services you forgot about while keeping the ones that matter.

Pause vs cancel

| Situation | Prefer | |-----------|--------| | Seasonal (VPN for travel, creative suite for one project) | Pause if the vendor offers it | | Free trial you don’t want | Cancel before trial ends — set a reminder 3 days before | | Duplicate tools (two note apps, three cloud drives) | Cancel the weaker one | | Shared account you still use occasionally | Keep — but track true monthly burn |

The “90-day rule”

If you haven’t opened an app or received value in 90 days, it’s a cancel candidate. Mark it in your tracker as paused or remove it — but keep renewal reminders on for anything still active.

Trial traps

Trials convert quietly. When you start a trial:

1. Add it to your tracker with trial end date
2. Enable email reminder 3 days before trial ends
3. Decide explicitly: keep (update amount) or cancel

Subscribes' trialEndsAt field exists for exactly this — no spreadsheet formulas.

Don’t cancel blind

Before canceling production tools (hosting, email, domain):

• Check downstream dependencies (DNS, backups, team access)
• Export data if needed
• Set renewal reminder on anything you keep

After canceling

Update status to canceled in your tracker. Your monthly burn drops immediately in analytics — that’s your feedback loop.

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Try the cut simulator on Pro to see “if I cancel these three, I save €X/month” before you click unsubscribe.