Notice when a subscription gets more expensive

Price rises tend to arrive quietly: an email you skim, a line in some updated terms, or nothing at all until the charge comes through a little higher than last time. A month later the new price feels normal. A year later you cannot remember what it used to be.

It is hard to question a change you cannot see. That is the problem a price history solves.

Every price, on the record

Each subscription in Blips keeps a price history. When a price changes, you add the new one, and the old price stays on the record. Over time it builds into a clear picture of what a service has cost you, step by step.

Blips does not alert you to a price rise on its own. You add the new price when you spot it, and from then on the change is never lost.

When the charge date moves too

Sometimes the amount is not the only thing that changes. A new plan can move your billing date as well, from the 5th to the 3rd, say. When you add a price change, you can shift the charge schedule along with it, and every future charge follows the new date, so the calendar shows the right days from then on.

What to do about a price rise

A higher price is a good moment to ask a few questions:

• Is there a cheaper plan? Many services offer an ad-supported tier, a yearly plan, or a family plan that costs less per person.
• Is it still worth it? Would you sign up today, at the new price?
• Are you paying twice? A rise is a good prompt to check whether something else you pay for already covers the same thing.

Sorting your subscriptions by price, or grouping them by category, makes that last one much easier to spot.