Tell it what you want to watch. It works out which services carry it, how long you need each one, and the date to cancel before the next bill lands. Same list, one subscription at a time instead of four at once.
Free. No streaming logins, no card details, nothing cancelled on your behalf.
One after another, never at the same time. The next subscription starts the day after the last one ends.
Depends what you're carrying. Four services at around $15 each runs about $720 a year. Watch the same titles one service at a time and you're paying one of those bills instead of four.
Almost nobody watches four services in a month. You watch one. The other three each hold a couple of things you meant to get to, so cancelling feels like giving something up, and the charges keep landing against shows nobody opened.
Because the idea is easy and the admin is miserable. You'd have to know which service has what, how long each batch takes you, and when to cancel before the next charge. Miss that date by a day and you've bought a month you didn't use. Do it wrong twice and you've given back the savings.
That bookkeeping is the whole job, and it's the part worth handing to something else.
Put films and shows on a shelf. The planner works out how much time each one still needs from you, counting episode runtimes for a series and subtracting anything you've already ticked off, then checks which services carry it where you live.
Most titles stream in more than one place, so there's a real choice to make. The planner looks for the smallest set of services that still covers everything on your shelf, then pins each title to one of them. A list scattered across five services can collapse to two.
Every service gets a block sized to how long its titles take at your own viewing pace, rounded up to whole billing cycles. The blocks run back to back and never overlap, so you're never paying two bills in the same month. Send it to your calendar and the cancel date shows up before the charge does.
It plans around how many services you need and how long to hold each, not what they cost. No streaming API publishes current pricing, so any figure here would be a guess. You get the schedule and the service count.
No streaming logins, no card details, no access to anything. It gives you the date to cancel by. Cancelling is still something you do with the provider.
Only subscription streaming gets scheduled. Titles you can rent or buy but not stream on a subscription show up separately as unplanned, with the reason why.
It's a tool that works out what order to hold your streaming subscriptions in, instead of holding them all at once. You give it a list of things you want to watch. It finds which service carries each one, groups the list so as few services as possible cover all of it, and lays them out in sequence with a start and end date for each.
Usually, yes. Say you pay for four services at around $15 each. That's roughly $720 over a year. Watch the same titles one service at a time and you're paying one of those bills instead of four. You only lose out if you genuinely use all four every month, and most households don't, which is the whole reason rotating works.
The gap between what you pay now and what one subscription costs, which for most people is a few hundred dollars a year. Subscription Guru won't put a number on it. It plans around how many services you need and how long to hold each one, not their prices, because no streaming API publishes current pricing. The arithmetic on your own bill is easy enough once you can see how few services your list actually needs.
Yes, and that's exactly what rotating depends on. Netflix, Max, Disney+, Prime Video, Hulu, Paramount+ and Apple TV+ all let you cancel a monthly plan and come back later, and most keep your access running until the end of the period you've already paid for. Skip annual plans if you want to rotate, since those lock you in for the year.
Whichever one covers the biggest chunk of your list, which is what the planner puts first by default. You can re-sort it to start with the shortest commitment instead, or by service name, or in the order you added things to your watchlist.
No. Your progress lives in Subscription Guru rather than in the streaming service, so the plan keeps counting down whatever happens to the account you were watching on. Most services hold onto their own history for a while after you cancel too, but the list you're working through doesn't depend on that.
No. It never asks for your streaming logins or card details and can't touch your accounts. It tells you the date to cancel by and you do it with the provider. Export the plan to your calendar and that date turns up before the renewal does.
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.
They're listed separately as unplanned, with the reason. Usually that means nothing in your region streams it on a subscription, or the catalog is missing a runtime the plan needs. Rental and purchase options are left out on purpose, since the point is to schedule subscriptions rather than one-off payments.
Yes. It looks up availability for your region, taken from your account setting and falling back to your browser language, so the plan is built from the services that actually carry those titles where you live.
Shelve five things you've been meaning to watch and look at the plan it builds. That's enough to tell whether one subscription at a time covers your list.
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