Free Trial Tracker
Track free trial subscriptions and get reminded before they charge you. No signup, works in your browser.
The problem
You sign up for a free trial. You tell yourself you'll cancel before it charges. You don't. A month later, you notice $14.99 on your card and wonder what it's for.
This happens constantly. The average person has 3–5 active free trials at any time, and most forget to cancel at least one per year. Services are designed to make signing up effortless and cancelling forgettable — that's the business model.
The existing solutions are apps that want your email, your credit card details, or a monthly subscription of their own. That's absurd. Tracking trial dates is a simple problem that deserves a simple tool.
How it works
- Add a trial — enter the service name, start date, and trial length in days. Quick-add buttons let you pick common durations (7, 14, 30 days), or choose from a list of 16 popular services like Netflix, Spotify, and Adobe CC with pre-filled trial lengths.
- See your dashboard — active trials are sorted by expiration date, color-coded green (7+ days), yellow (3–7 days), or red (under 3 days). Expired trials go grey.
- Get reminded — enable browser notifications and choose when: 3 days before, 1 day before, or day-of expiry. When notified, click through directly to the cancellation page.
- Track what you save — when you cancel a trial, log the monthly cost. Your running "money saved" total shows how much you've avoided paying.
No signup. No download. Runs entirely in your browser. All data stays in localStorage — nothing is sent to any server.
Beyond trials: subscription tracking
Free Trial Tracker also handles paid subscriptions you want to keep an eye on. Toggle from "Free Trial" to "Paid Subscription" in the form, enter the cost and billing cycle (monthly or annual), and it shows up in a separate section with your total monthly spend. "You're paying $147/month across 8 subscriptions" is the kind of number most people have never calculated.
Extra features
- Category tags — label trials as streaming, software, fitness, gaming, etc. and filter your list by category.
- Calendar view — a month grid with color-coded dots on days trials expire. See the full picture at a glance.
- History log — tracks every trial you've cancelled, expired, or deleted. Shows patterns: "You've cancelled 12 trials and saved $847."
- Share — generates a URL with your trial list encoded in the hash. Send it to a roommate or partner tracking shared subscriptions.
- Export/import — back up your data as JSON and restore it on another device.
- Dark mode — follows your system preference or toggle manually.
Why I built it
I saw a post on r/indiehackers titled "I built a free tool for people who sign up for free trials and trust future-them too much." It resonated immediately. This is a universal problem — everyone has forgotten to cancel a trial. The solution should be free, private, and instant. So I built one.
Built with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS. No frameworks, no backend, no tracking. Under 50KB total. Loads instantly.
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