Subscription Purge: free money game to cut unused subscriptions

What is Subscription Purge?

Fifteen monthly charges, sixty seconds. Each card shows the price and when you last used it. Keep what you use, cancel what you don't, and see how much a year of small charges really costs.

Subscription Purge is a free personal finance game. Your bank app lists fifteen monthly charges: streaming, music, a gym, apps, a free trial that quietly turned paid, a second cloud storage plan. Each card shows the price and when you last used it. You have sixty seconds to keep or cancel every one.

Swipe, tap or use the arrow keys. Cancel something you use and your happiness drops; keep something you haven't opened in months and it keeps charging you all year. Your score is the yearly money you saved times how happy you still are, so the best purge is a careful one.

At a glance

Category

Adventure

Difficulty

Easy

Play time

1–3 min

Price

Free, in your browser, sign-up optional

How to play

Read the card

Each subscription shows its monthly price and when you last used it.

Keep or cancel

Swipe right or tap Keep, swipe left or tap Cancel. On a keyboard, → keeps and ← cancels.

Mind both meters

Cancelling something you use costs happiness. Keeping something you don't use keeps costing money.

Score

Yearly savings, minus the money still wasted, times your happiness. Cards left at 0 seconds stay subscribed.

Scoring

Every subscription you cancel adds 12 months of its price to your yearly savings; every unused one you keep (or don't reach before the 60 seconds are up) counts as money still wasted.

Cancelling something you used in the last 30 days costs happiness (25, or 40 for a gym). Your score is savings minus waste, in dollars, times your happiness: 100% counts in full, 0% scores nothing.

What it trains

Spotting waste

Reading a price and a last-used date and deciding in seconds.

Yearly thinking

Turning small monthly charges into what they cost in a year.

Balance

Cutting costs without cutting the things you actually enjoy.

Strategy and tips

Check the last-used date

If you haven't opened it in a month or more, you probably won't miss it.

Think yearly

$9.99 a month is $120 a year. Multiply before you decide.

Watch free trials

Trials turn paid on their own. Set a reminder the day you sign up.

Spot duplicates

Two streaming plans or two storage plans usually means one is wasted.

Keep what you love

Cutting everything isn't the goal. Pay for what you actually use.

Why play Subscription Purge?

Subscriptions are designed to be easy to start and easy to forget. A one-minute purge shows how a handful of small charges becomes hundreds a year, and builds the habit of checking your statement.

Frequently asked questions