Give it the films and series you actually mean to watch. It works out which subscriptions cover them, how long each one needs to be held, and the date to cancel before the next bill — so you get through the same list paying for one service instead of four.
Free. No streaming logins, no card details, nothing cancelled on your behalf.
Consecutive, never concurrent — the next subscription starts the day after the last one ends.
Almost nobody watches four services in a month. They watch one, and pay for four, because the other three each hold one or two things they have been meaning to get to. Cancelling feels like giving something up, so the subscriptions renew — quietly, monthly, against content nobody is watching.
Rotating fixes that without shortening the list. You watch the same titles in a different order: everything on one service, then cancel and move to the next. The only thing you give up is simultaneous access to shows you were not going to watch this month anyway. What makes it hard by hand is knowing where the titles are, how long each block takes, and when to cancel. That is the part the planner does.
The planner starts from the titles already on your shelves. It works out how much watch time each one has left — episode runtimes for a series, minus anything you have already ticked off — and looks up which subscription services carry it where you live.
Most titles stream on more than one service, so there is a choice to make. The planner picks the combination that covers your whole list with the smallest number of distinct subscriptions, then assigns every title to one of them rather than leaving it spread across four.
Each service gets a block sized to how long its titles will actually take you at your stated pace, rounded up to whole billing cycles. The blocks run back to back and never overlap — the next subscription starts the day after the last one ends, so you are only ever paying for one.
The plan is built from the number of subscriptions and the time each needs to be held, not their cost — no streaming API publishes current prices, so a figure here would be a guess. You get the schedule and the service count.
Subscription Guru never asks for a streaming login or a card. It tells you the date to cancel by; cancelling is still something you do with the provider.
Only subscription availability is scheduled. Titles you can rent or buy but not stream on a subscription are listed separately as unplanned, with the reason.
It is a tool that decides the 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 works out which service carries each one, groups the list so that as few services as possible cover all of it, and lays those services out in sequence with a start and an end date for each.
It is cheaper whenever you were paying for services you were not watching. Four subscriptions held all year is twelve months of four fees; the same titles watched one service at a time is twelve months of one fee. The saving is whatever the idle subscriptions were costing you. Rotating does not make anything cheaper if you genuinely use every service every month.
Not yet. It plans around the number of subscriptions and the time each one needs to be held, not their prices — no streaming API publishes current subscription prices, so putting a figure on the page would mean guessing. You get the schedule and the count of services; the arithmetic on your own bill is yours to do.
Whichever one covers the largest block of your list, which is what the planner puts first by default. You can re-sort the plan to start with the shortest commitment instead, or by service name, or in the order you added things to your watchlist.
Your watch progress lives in Subscription Guru rather than in the streaming service, so the plan keeps counting down whatever happens to the account you watched on. Services generally keep their own progress for a while after a cancellation too, but the list you are working through does not depend on that.
No. Subscription Guru never asks for your streaming logins or payment details and cannot touch your accounts. It tells you the date to cancel by, and you cancel with the provider. You can export the plan to your calendar so that date turns up before the renewal does.
They are listed separately as unplanned, with the reason — usually that nothing in your region carries them on a subscription, or that the catalog is missing a runtime the plan needs. Rental and purchase offers are deliberately left out of the plan, since the point is to schedule subscriptions.
Yes. Availability is looked up for your region, taken from your account preference and falling back to your browser language, so the plan is built from the services that actually carry those titles where you are.
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 at a time covers your list.
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