The subscriptions you forgot you pay
A regular audit of recurring charges, naming the unused and the redundant
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
Three subscriptions are candidates to cancel, and one went up in price.
- No sign of use in 30 days: a language learning app at $13 and a photo editing app at $10 a month.
- Overlapping: a second music streaming plan at $10 a month, alongside your $11 one.
- Price increase: cloud storage went from $3 to $5 a month in October.
Together the three candidates cost $33 a month, or $396 a year.
The problem
The average person pays for subscriptions they could not name under oath. Free trials that converted, apps from a phase, three services doing one job.
Each charge is small enough to ignore and the total is not. They compound quietly because canceling requires remembering they exist.
What it does
This routine audits your recurring subscriptions and names the candidates for cancellation: unused, redundant, or quietly price-hiked.
One pass usually pays for months of the app itself. The treadmill of zombie charges finally gets a reader.
Try the prompt
Copy it into a new Littlebird routine, then set the days and times that fit your schedule
- Open Littlebird and go to Routines. Open the menu next to New Routine and choose Set up manually.
- Paste the prompt into Instructions, then set the days and time under Run.
- Littlebird runs it on schedule from then on. You can pause or edit it anytime. Auto-pause is on by default and pauses it if reports go unread.
You can also choose Create with Littlebird and describe the routine in chat.
Every month audit my subscriptions and flag ones I haven't used in the last 30 days
Why make it a routine?
Skills are a good demo. You open a chat, paste in yesterday's context, and get a pretty solid answer exactly once.
Tomorrow you do the whole thing again: same paste, same wait. The skill does not know your meetings, your threads, or what changed since Monday.
This routine knows all of that before it runs. It fires on schedule and hands you the result where you already work.
Frequently asked questions
Will it cancel anything for me?
It names the candidates; you cancel. Money decisions stay with the human.
How frequently should it audit?
Monthly works well. Subscriptions accumulate slowly, so the audit does not need to be loud about it.
Does it catch price increases?
Yes. Recurring charges that quietly grew get flagged alongside the unused ones.
How safe is my information here?
Short version: nothing of yours gets sold. Controls are SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA aligned.
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