Cancellation deadline calculator
Enter when your free trial or subscription started. The calculator shows when the next charge is due and the last day to cancel, and adds a reminder to your calendar.
Everything is calculated in your browser: the date and the service you enter aren’t sent to us.
Enter a start date and, for a trial, its length in days.
How the date is calculated
- Free trial: the first charge comes when the trial ends — the start date plus the length of the trial. A 7-day trial started on a Monday is charged the next Monday.
- Monthly plan: you’re charged on the same day each month as the day you subscribed. If that day doesn’t exist in a month — the 31st, for example — the calculator uses the last day of that month.
- Yearly plan: the same date a year later.
From the charge date, the calculator counts back the number of days you choose. One day is the default for a reason: Apple asks you to cancel at least 24 hours before a trial ends, and providers don’t all charge at the same time of day or in your time zone. If you choose a service from the list, its trial length is filled in from our checks.
Before the deadline
- Cancel where you signed up. A subscription bought through the App Store or Google Play is canceled there, not in the app — our cancellation guide shows where to look for each way of paying.
- Canceling a trial can end it right away. Spotify, for example, switches you to the free tier immediately if you cancel during a free trial, and the trial can’t be restarted (review). If you want the whole trial, cancel on the last safe day, not on the first.
- Check the exact date in your account. Providers show the next billing date in the account or subscription settings; if it differs from the result here, go by the provider.
Services with a free trial and its length are listed in free trials.
The calendar reminder
The reminder is a calendar file created in your browser: it adds an all-day event on the last day to cancel, with an alert at 9 a.m. in calendars that support alerts in imported files. On a phone, open the downloaded file to add it to your calendar; Google Calendar on a computer imports it from its settings, under Import & export.