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title: "Subscription Audit: Totals & Cost per Use | Thrift Morrow"
description: "List your subscriptions to see monthly and yearly totals, the cost per use of each, and what cancelling the low-value ones would save. Kept on your device."
url: https://thriftmorrow.me/subscription-audit/
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Monthly · yearly · per use

# Subscription audit

Streaming, apps, memberships, boxes: list what you pay for and how often you use it, and see which ones earn their keep.

## How to audit your subscriptions

Go through a bank or card statement and add every regular payment: its price, how often it bills, and roughly how often you use it. Weekly prices are multiplied by 52, monthly by 12 and quarterly by 4 to get the yearly cost; the monthly figure is the yearly one divided by 12.

**Cost per use** is the yearly cost divided by the number of times you use it in a year. Anything above your limit, or not used at all, is flagged as low value. “Tick the low-value ones” marks those for cancelling, and the tag shows what that would save; tick or untick any row yourself.

Your list is saved in this browser’s local storage, so it is here next time on this device. Download it as a CSV for a spreadsheet, or print it.

**Watch out for “your subscription has renewed” emails.** Messages offering a refund or a “cancel here” link are a common phishing trick. The safe route is to open the service’s own app or type its address yourself. If you want to see where a link in such an email really leads, check it with [WebTraceCheck’s redirect chain checker](https://webtracecheck.com/redirect-chain-check) or open it in [a disposable cloud browser on WebTraceCheck](https://webtracecheck.com/), and never enter card details on a page reached that way.

## Questions

**What counts as a use?**

Whatever makes sense for that service: a film night, a gym visit, an issue read, a lesson done. A rough count is fine; the point is to spot the ones you rarely touch.

**Is my list sent anywhere?**

No. It stays in your browser’s local storage on this device. Clearing the list or your browser data removes it.

**Why does a weekly price give an odd monthly figure?**

A month is not a whole number of weeks, so a weekly price times 52, divided by 12, comes to about 4.33 weeks’ worth a month.