What Is a Zombie Subscription?
A subscription is "zombie" the moment you stop getting value from it but the charge keeps coming back from the dead every month anyway.
💸 The average person wastes $273/year on subscriptions like this — charges nobody's actively using.
Signs you're carrying one
- 🧟You couldn't say from memory what it costs or when it renews
- 🧟You haven't opened the app or used the service in over a month
- 🧟It renewed automatically after a free trial you meant to cancel
- 🧟It's billed annually, so a year of silence doesn't feel like anything is wrong
- 🧟It's on a card you don't check often, or split across a shared family plan
How Subscription Incinerator finds them
Full inventory first
We scan Gmail receipts (read-only) to build a complete list of what's actually billing you — including ones you forgot existed.
Spend by category
Seeing everything grouped together makes it obvious which charges aren't earning their place.
Savings on every cancel
Cancel a zombie subscription through our guided flow and we record exactly what you saved — proof it was worth killing.
Find your zombie subscriptions free
Track up to 10 subscriptions manually at no cost, or connect Gmail on Premium to find them automatically.
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What exactly counts as a zombie subscription?
Any recurring charge that keeps billing you after you've stopped getting value from it — a trial you forgot to cancel, an app you stopped opening, a plan you upgraded away from without cancelling the old one.
How does Subscription Incinerator find zombie subscriptions?
We scan Gmail receipts (read-only) to build a full list of what's billing you, then track spend by category so anything sitting untouched is easy to spot. When you cancel one, we record the savings so you can see exactly what killing zombie subscriptions is worth.
Do I need to link my bank account to find zombie subscriptions?
No — Gmail scanning and manual tracking both work without a linked bank account. Bank CSV import is available too, but optional.