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Find a service's plans and prices without leaving Blips

Type a service's name and Blips reads its pricing page for you, then offers each plan as a chip. One tap fills in the price, currency, and billing cycle.

The hardest part of adding a subscription is often the price. You know you pay for it, but not exactly how much, whether you are on the Standard plan or the Premium one, or whether it is billed monthly or yearly. Finding out means leaving the app, opening a browser, and digging through a pricing page designed to steer you toward the most expensive plan.

Price Suggestions does that digging for you. As you add a service, Blips finds its pricing page and Apple Intelligence reads the plans from it, so the choices are waiting under the price before you have looked anything up.

From a name to a price

Start adding a subscription and type the service’s name, or pick it from the list as you type. Once you move on from the name, Finding prices… appears under the amount, and the plans start to arrive one chip at a time: the plan’s name, its price, and how often it is charged.

Tap a chip and Blips fills in the price, the currency, and the billing cycle. That is all it does. Each of those values stays in its own field, ready to change, and if you edit one by hand, the chip simply lets go.

Under the chips, a line says where they came from: Read from netflix.com by Apple Intelligence, say. You always know which site the prices were taken from.

Read from the page, not from memory

It would be easy to just ask a language model what a service costs. The trouble is that a model answers from what it learned in training: prices from years ago, plans that have since been retired, and, for a service it has never heard of, a confident guess.

So Blips does not ask. It fetches the service’s own pricing page, and Apple Intelligence’s only job is to read the plans from it, which is the kind of work these models are genuinely good at. Every amount it suggests is then checked against the amounts actually printed on that page. A price the model made up has nowhere to come from, and never reaches the form.

When no pricing page can be found, Apple Intelligence may suggest prices from what it already knows. Those come with a different line, Suggested by Apple Intelligence, and a warning that the prices may be out of date. Remembering a price is not the same as reading it, so that kind of suggestion is worth a second look before you save it.

The prices where you live

The page is fetched straight from your iPhone, the same way your browser would fetch it. That matters, because a service’s website answers with the prices it charges where the request comes from, in the currency it bills that country in. What you see are the prices for your country.

Plenty of services do not bill in the local currency, and Blips allows for that too. Across Europe, many charge in euro rather than in the country’s own money, and some charge in US dollars almost everywhere. If a service is not sold in your country at all, its page has no price that fits, and Blips shows nothing rather than offering you somewhere else’s.

Paying for something in another currency? Switch the form’s currency, and the lookup moves to the country that pays in it, so a form set to US dollars looks for what the service charges in the United States. Many sites only ever show the prices for where you are, so these are more often suggested from memory, and labelled that way.

Offered, never assumed

A suggestion is what a service charges today, which is not always what you pay. If you signed up a while ago, you may still be on an older price, or on a plan that is no longer sold. Pick the closest plan, then correct the amount to match your last charge. If the price on the page is higher than yours, that is worth knowing too: older prices rarely stay old forever, and a price history will keep the record when yours changes.

Nothing is looked up when you edit a subscription you already have, and nothing is ever filled in without a tap from you.

Private by design

Looking up a price should not cost you any privacy, and it does not:

  • The page comes from the service’s own site. Only public pricing is fetched, nothing about you or your subscriptions goes with the request, and no cookies are kept.
  • Apple Intelligence reads it. To keep it quick, the page text goes to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, which uses it only to answer that one request and keeps nothing afterwards. When Private Cloud Compute is unavailable, or you have reached its daily limit, the page is read on your device instead.
  • A suggestion from memory sends only what it needs: the service’s name and website, your country, and your currency.
  • None of it reaches us. The privacy policy explains each step in full.

Private Cloud Compute comes with a daily allowance, and Blips tells you when you are getting close to it. If your iPhone can offer you more, an Increase Limit button appears alongside.

Turning it on and off

Price Suggestions works on iPhones that support Apple Intelligence, and it is on by default. To turn it off, open Settings in Blips and go to Apple Intelligence & Siri.

Price Suggestions does not choose a plan for you. It saves you the trip to the pricing page, so adding a subscription takes a few taps, and the number you save is one you have actually seen.