A small tool

What your subscriptions actually cost

A weekly price, a monthly price and a yearly price are three different units, and nothing sold to you is keen to put them side by side. Add what you pay and this does, live: the real total, what each line costs every time you use it, which ones are cheaper paid yearly and which are dearer, and what is about to be charged. Nothing is sent anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to go: the arithmetic happens in your browser and the site keeps no record of it.

The list is empty. Press Add a subscription and fill in a name and an amount, or load one of the examples below to see what the tool does before you type anything real.

Examples, not yours. One click each.

Round demonstration figures, not researched prices. Change them or remove them once you have seen how it reads. Two of them carry a yearly price as well, one of which is a worse deal than paying monthly.

Monthly income after tax. Optional.

Blank by default and never required. It is only used to turn the total into a percentage, and like everything else here it stays in this browser.

Take it with you

The button below puts a plain-text version of everything above on your clipboard: the totals, the cancel ranking with the saving for each line, the yearly comparison, what is due, the category subtotals and every line on its own. It is text, so it can go in a note, a message to whoever else pays for some of this, or a spreadsheet. The clipboard is a local thing. Nothing is uploaded in order to copy it.

What happens to this

The list is kept in this browser, in local storage, so it survives a reload and a closed tab. It is not sent anywhere. There is no account, no analytics on this page, and no network request of any kind while you use it. That is a description of the code, not a promise about it: the page is two files and you can read both.

Weekly amounts are counted as fifty-two a year rather than forty-eight, because a week is not a quarter of a month. Yearly amounts are divided by twelve. Every figure is held as a whole number of cents and rounded once, at the moment it is printed, so a long list does not drift a few cents away from its own parts. Whatever currency you type in is the currency that comes out, since the arithmetic does not care which one it is.

A renewal date you give is rolled forward by whole billing periods until it lands in the future, so a date typed in months ago still answers the question you asked. Cost per use divides a month of the cost by the number of uses you entered for a month. Nothing is estimated on your behalf: a line with no usage figure is left out of the ranking and said to be, rather than given an invented one.

If putting a number on it helped, that is the whole job, and the tool stays free either way.

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