These apps track your regular monthly charges, and a couple will even cancel those you don’t want.
MAYBE THE MEAL DELIVERY KITS ARE piling up uneaten at $60 a week, or you no longer feel the need to pay $19.95 a month for a credit-monitoring service. Or maybe you never listened to Apple Music after the try-it-free offer converted to $10 a month. Neglected subscriptions or free trials that sneakily convert to monthly charges on your credit card statement can add up to hundreds of dollars each year.
Of course, you can (and should) scour your bank and credit card statements yourself for unwanted charges and take the necessary steps to cancel them. But if other priorities have put this task on a back burner—or you dread the inevitable sales pitch that often accompanies cancellations— a handful of services promise to do the dirty work for you, or at least give you a nudge with a monthly reminder of how much you’re paying.
This story is from the January 2017 edition of Kiplinger's Personal Finance.
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