How to use this app
Three minutes here, and you stop paying for what you already own.
OffSwitch never connects to your bank, never asks for a card and never does anything on your behalf. You tell it what you pay for. It shows you the free or cheaper way to get the same thing, and walks you through cancelling it yourself.
Step by step
- 1
Answer four quick questions
30 secondsPick the kind of phone you use, then tick what you pay for and how often you actually open it. No sign-up, no email, nothing to connect.
- 2
Read your list
Straight awayYou get your savings in one place, with one suggestion free to start. Each one shows what it costs a year and which free thing already on your device does the same job.
- 3
Follow the guide to cancel
2 minutes eachSay where you pay, whether that is the App Store, Google Play or the company directly. Then use the checked link, the ready-written email or the word-for-word phone script.
- 4
Mark it switched off
The good bitIt moves into your savings tracker with a real-world equivalent, plus a reminder to check the charge has actually stopped. You can undo it any time.
The three tabs, and what they do
Why this matters now
Keeping up has quietly turned into a monthly bill.
Every year you are offered more software and less reason to buy it. Your phone now does, for free, what five paid apps did in 2018, and each update adds to the list. Meanwhile the subscriptions keep arriving: a new AI assistant, a new editor, a new workspace, each sensibly priced and each easy to forget.
None of that is a scandal. Saying yes to £8 a month is easy; noticing what it adds up to is not. OffSwitch exists to show you the total, and then to point you back to the thing you already paid for when you bought the device.
Most of what you pay for is already in your pocket
Your phone takes photos, keeps notes, scans documents, holds tickets, tracks runs and translates signs. For a lot of people those are paid apps. The switch is usually just remembering the built-in one is there.
Updates add features, not bills
Every year your phone and its software gain things people used to buy separately, such as better cameras, scanning, offline maps and live text. You bought the device once. Those improvements come free with it.
Something new launches every week
Right now it's AI tools: a new assistant, editor, planner or workspace every few weeks, each free for a trial and then £10 to £30 a month. On their own they feel small. Together they're a second phone bill.
Prices creep up and nobody sends a summary
Streaming, cloud storage, apps: most went up again this year, announced in an email you skimmed. OffSwitch is the summary nobody else gives you. It shows what you pay, what it earns you and what you would use instead.
What we never ask for
Nothing about your money, and nothing about you.
- No bank or card details, ever
- No account, password or email address
- No access to your contacts, camera or location
- Nothing guesswork: every guide is written and checked by a person
Everything you tick and cancel stays on this device, unless you choose to keep a private backup.
Ready when you are.
Start with one. Most people find their first saving inside three minutes.
Figures are estimates based on UK prices, not financial advice. You cancel with the company yourself.