Subscription Guru.

One streaming subscription at a time

Subscription Guru reads your watchlist and builds a schedule: which streaming service to hold this month, what to finish while you have it, and when to cancel before the next bill arrives.

Free, and no streaming logins or card details — sign in with an account you already have.

Four subscriptions, one of them actually in use

Streaming stopped being one bill a long time ago. Most households carry three or four services now, and in any given month they really only watch one. The other charges land quietly against a couple of titles nobody got round to.

Cancelling feels risky because the list of things you meant to watch lives in your head, spread across four apps. You can't tell what you'd be giving up, so you keep paying.

The fix isn't watching less. It's watching the same list in a different order, so only one subscription has to be live at a time.

How Subscription Guru works

Step one

Put everything you mean to watch on a shelf

Search for a title when you know what you want. When you don't, Discover deals them one at a time. Whatever you keep stands on the shelf as a book spine, and the taller the spine, the more watch time is left in it. One look tells you what you've actually signed up for.

Step two

We find out where each one streams

Every title on your shelves gets checked against what's streaming in your region, and the list stops being abstract. This one's on a service you already pay for. That one needs the subscription you dropped back in March.

Step three

You hold one service at a time

From your shelves, your region and how much you watch on an average day, Subscription Guru lays out the run: hold this service for these weeks, finish these titles, cancel, move on. You still watch everything on the list. You just pay for one subscription while you do it.

More on the scheduling itself, and the questions people ask before trying it, on the streaming subscription planner.

What you get

Watchlists that show their size

Make as many shelves as you like: date night, background comfort shows, the ones you keep meaning to start. Spine height is the watch time left, so an eight-season commitment can't hide behind a 96-minute film.

Search and Discover

Look a title up by name when you know what you're after. When you don't, Discover deals them one at a time. Swipe right to shelve it, left to pass.

A month-by-month plan

A timeline of which subscription to hold and when, built from what's actually on your shelves rather than what a service wants to push at you.

Calendar export

Send the plan to your calendar as an ICS feed, so the "cancel this one" date turns up before the renewal charge does.

Shared shelves

Invite someone to a shelf and keep one household list instead of two half-remembered ones.

Progress that counts down

Tick off episodes as you watch. Spines shrink, the plan re-times itself, and the finished pile gets out of the way.

Common questions

What does Subscription Guru actually do?

It turns your watchlist into a schedule for your streaming subscriptions. You tell it what you want to watch, it checks where each title streams in your region, and it works out which single service to hold now, what to finish while you've got it, and when to cancel and move to the next. Same list, one subscription at a time instead of three or four at once.

How does rotating streaming subscriptions save money?

Four services at around $15 each is roughly $720 a year. Hold one at a time and you're paying one of those bills instead of four. The saving grows with every service you kept but rarely opened. Nothing gets cancelled for you: Subscription Guru tells you when, and you cancel with the provider.

Which streaming services are covered?

Availability comes from TMDB, which tracks the major subscription services in most countries: Netflix, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Hulu, Apple TV+, Paramount+ and the regional services alongside them. Which ones show up depends on where you are.

Does it work outside the United States?

Yes. It uses the region on your account, falling back to your browser language, and looks up streaming availability for that country. Titles appear in the matching language wherever a translation exists.

Do I have to connect my streaming accounts?

No. Subscription Guru never asks for streaming logins or payment details. You sign in with an account you already have, and all it stores is your watchlist and your preferences.

Does Subscription Guru cost anything?

No. It's free, with no paid tier and nothing to upgrade to.

Can I share a watchlist with someone else?

Yes. Any shelf can be shared by invite, so a household keeps one list and plans around it together instead of negotiating between two.

Start with one shelf

Put five things you have been meaning to watch on a shelf and look at the plan it makes. That is enough to see whether one subscription a month covers your list.

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