Forgotten subscriptions, unmasked.
Subscriptions are silent leaks: €9.99 here, €14.99 there, and hundreds of euros a year slipping away without a thought. The Guardian spots them for you.
The silent leak of subscriptions
One subscription, taken alone, looks harmless. But stacked up — streaming, apps, services, free trials turned paid — they form a continuous leak nobody is watching. Automatic payment does the rest: you pay without ever deciding again.
The danger isn't the expense itself, it's its invisibility. What you can't see, you never question.
A recurring payment is a decision made once, then never revisited. That's how you end up paying for months, sometimes years, for a service you no longer use.
The Guardian detects recurrences
The subscription Guardian watches your entries and spots the amounts that return at regular intervals — the signature of a subscription. It gathers them and lays them before you, including the ones you'd forgotten. The invisible leak becomes visible again.
There's no magic to it: it's your own history, read intelligently, to surface what the automatic had buried.
You can't decide about what you can't see. The Guardian puts your subscriptions back before your eyes — the first condition for taking back control of them.
Deciding with full knowledge
Once the list is in front of you, the decision is yours — keep, cancel, replace. The Guardian doesn't judge your choices: it gives you the overview you were missing so you can choose clearly. Often a single glance is enough to spot a ghost subscription.
Taking back control of your subscriptions is one of the easiest savings there is: a few minutes for hundreds of euros a year.
Detected at home, nowhere else
True to the Ozorys principle, this detection runs on your device, on your own data. No server analyses your consumption habits to build a profile: the Guardian works for you alone, under cover.
You gain a subscription detector without becoming, yourself, a product under analysis.
Review the Guardian's list once a quarter. A subscription takes one tap to start and a month to forget: that regular appointment is your best defence.
Let's check it stuck
Six questions, marked instantly. Your answers never leave this page.
1. Why are subscriptions a dangerous leak?
What you can't see, you never question.
2. How does the Guardian spot a subscription?
Your own history, read intelligently, surfaces what was buried.
3. What does the Guardian do with the list it finds?
The decision is yours: keep, cancel, replace.
4. Where does the detection run?
The Guardian works for you alone, under cover.
5. The trap of automatic payment?
You pay for months for a service you no longer use.
6. Taking back control of your subscriptions is…
A few minutes for hundreds of euros a year.
Today's challenge
Open the Guardian and spot the first subscription you'd forgotten. Decide, right there, to keep it or cancel it: it may be the fastest euro you save all month.