RecurDash 2.0 went live on November 1, and every public page now opens on one number: what a subscription costs you a year. Around it, 35 more services joined the catalog, and 22 of them got a cancel guide.
New
- RecurDash 2.0 — a new design on every public page: cancel guides, pricing pages, the home page, the spending audit, the blog and this changelog.
- What it costs you, first — most cancel guides now open with the service's cost over a year, and the plan buttons under it switch the figure to the plan you're on. The Netflix guide opens on $107.88 a year for Standard with ads, and one tap shows Premium. Most pricing pages open the same way.
- How hard it is to leave, drawn as a mark — every cancellation score now comes as five columns (steps, warnings, channel, refund and recovery), each as wide as its weight and as tall as its score, so the shaded area is the whole score. On a pricing page you can tap a column for what it measures (see Apple News+). The guides index filters by the same score, and the home page lists the five hardest to leave right now.
- A list you can change on the home page — the home page starts with five real subscriptions and what they add up to. Change a plan, drop one or add another and the total follows, and when you create a free account, your picks come with you.
- A reminder on every cancel guide — not cancelling today? Every guide now offers an email before the service renews, right under the button to its cancel page.
Improved
- Reminders on the pages we check by hand — pricing pages for services we don't read nightly now offer a reminder before the service renews, and the add form asks for your next renewal date so the email lands on time (see Apple News+).
- Sign-up says what you came for — arrive from a pricing page and the sign-up page names the service and what its button promised: "Get an email when Medium changes a price", or "Get an email before Apple News+ renews".
- Price history for every service — when a service we check by hand changes its price, the change now shows in its price history and in your daily digest. Before, only the 47 services we read every night kept a history.
- Renamed plans read as renames — when Claude renamed Max 20x to Ultra, its price history showed one row with the old name under the new, and the digest said "Claude renamed 2 plans" instead of calling it a price change.
- Pricing pages are easier to get around — the jump links at the top mark the section you're reading, and on a phone the price history fits in three columns instead of scrolling sideways.
- Screenshots on two more guides — The New York Times and Shopify now show each screen of the cancel flow.
Fixed
- Accounts nobody asked for — signing in with Google on the sign-in page used to create a RecurDash account on the spot if you didn't have one. Now it stops and asks first, with one click to create the account and a way back to the page you came from.
- Google sign-ups that failed — a Google account with an unusually long profile picture link couldn't sign up. It can now.
- The sign-up form on laptop screens — at some laptop widths, the price card beside the sign-up form covered part of it. It fits its column now.
- Keyboard and high-contrast use — wide comparison tables on pricing pages scroll from the keyboard, and the price card and the score's columns keep their state in high-contrast mode.
New services & guides
Thirty-five more subscriptions you can track, 22 of them with a step-by-step cancel guide.
Streaming, music & sports: YouTube TV (the pause slider on the membership panel isn't a cancel), DAZN (on an annual plan paid monthly, cancelling stops the renewal, not the remaining instalments), Fubo, BritBox and SoundCloud.
Money: YNAB (the app has no billing settings, so you cancel in a browser, and outside the UK, Switzerland and the EEA it no longer promises a prorated refund on annual plans), bunq (there's no cancel button: you switch to bunq Free in the app), Dave (cancel at least 3 business days before the fee, and Pause membership isn't a cancel) and Cleo.
Fitness & outdoors: WHOOP (cancel on the web, not in the app, and most memberships are prepaid for a year), Zwift and Tide Guide.
Shopping & home: Fabletics (skip the month between the 1st and the 5th, or that month's $69.95 is billed anyway) and HP Instant Ink (HP bills after the month, and switches off the Instant Ink cartridges once the plan ends, so have regular ones ready).
Gaming: GTA+, which you cancel in the store you bought it from.
Work & creative tools: Quo (formerly OpenPhone) (port your number out before you cancel if you want to keep it), Searchable (annual plans renew unless you give 30 days' written notice), Fresha, Kajabi, Magnific (formerly Freepik), Readymag and Voicenotes.
Pricing pages only, for now: YouTube Music, FOX One, Costco, BJ's, Thrive Market, My Best Buy, Zazzle Plus, IPSY, iFIT, Blink, BeenVerified, Minecraft Realms and Fortnite Crew.
Pricing data
- Linktree raised its prices, which we saw on October 22: Starter is $9 a month or $84 a year (from $8 and $72), and Pro is $17 or $168 (from $15 and $144).
- Claude renamed Max 5x to Max and Max 20x to Ultra. Prices are unchanged at $100 and $200 a month.
- Walmart+ added Walmart+ with Sam's Club Plus at $120 a year.
- GitHub Copilot added Copilot access for organizations, which we list at its $10 a user a month Standalone price.
- Apple TV+, a correction to our September 28 entry: Apple brought the Peacock bundle back on September 14, now at $17.99 a month. The page also lists all three Apple One plans: Individual $21.95, Family $27.95 and Premier $39.95.
- The New York Times, a correction: all four plans bill every 4 weeks, not monthly, at $30 for All Access and $6 each for Games, Cooking and Wirecutter. We had $25 and $5 a month.