Get BeforeItBills — free

Know before
you owe.

BeforeItBills is a subscription tracker that reads the renewal emails already sitting in your inbox and warns you seven days before any recurring charge hits. Enough time to cancel, pause, or just see it coming.

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Free download. Set up in about two minutes.
No bank connection — works in any country.
Insights tab with cash flow and spending charts
BeforeItBills home screen showing monthly spend and upcoming renewals
Reads renewal emails fromGmailOutlookiCloudYahooIMAP
500+
services it recognizes
7 days
warning before every charge
0
passwords stored
Why it exists

You're probably paying for things you forgot about.

The average person carries 12 active subscriptions and can name about 4 of them.

01

Free trials renew themselves

You signed up once, months ago. The card has been quietly charged ever since.

02

Small charges hide well

$4.99 here, $9.99 there. Each one too small to notice, together too big to ignore.

03

Your bank tells you after

A bank notification means the money is already gone. The useful warning is the one that arrives before.

Detection

It finds them. You confirm them.

Connect your inbox and BeforeItBills pulls out every recurring charge it can find, then lines them up for review. Swipe right to confirm, left to dismiss — the list is yours, not an algorithm's guess.

Finds your subscriptions in about two minutes
Flags unusual amounts before you confirm them
Catches the ones you forgot existed
Review screen — swipe to confirm or dismiss detected subscriptions
Recurring list — every bill and subscription sorted by due date
Alerts

A week's warning, every time.

Subscriptions and bills live in one list, sorted by whatever is due next. Seven days before anything renews, your phone tells you — while there's still time to do something about it.

7-day warning before every renewal
Bills and subscriptions in one place
A push notification, not a buried email
The difference

7 days changes the outcome.

Without BeforeItBills
Charge hits your accountBank notifies youToo late
With BeforeItBills
Renewal email detected7-day warning sentYou decide
Insights

See where the money actually goes.

Monthly burn, cash flow, a running forecast. The Insights tab turns your recurring spend into charts you can read in the time it takes the kettle to boil. Visual, not noisy.

Monthly distribution, category by category
Free trials tracked before they convert
A 12-month spending projection
Insights tab — monthly distribution and spending forecast
Setup

Two minutes from download to answers

1

Connect your inbox

Pick Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo or any IMAP server. Read-only access — the app can never send, delete or change anything.

2

Confirm what it finds

Every recurring charge it detects gets lined up for you. Swipe to confirm or dismiss each one.

3

Then forget about it

From that point on, you get a warning seven days before anything bills you. That's the whole job.

Connect screen — choose Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo or IMAP
Privacy

Built to know as little as possible.

Read-only access, always

OAuth grants read permission only. The app can never send, delete, or modify your emails — the permission to do so simply doesn't exist.

It only looks for billing signals

The engine scores renewal language: 'subscription', 'renews on', 'next billing date', 'cancel anytime'. Personal email falls below the detection threshold and is never kept.

Credentials encrypted with AES-256-GCM

Your OAuth tokens are encrypted before they reach the database. Never stored in plain text, never written to logs.

Only the results are saved

Scanning runs server-side against your read-only token. Email content is processed and discarded — only the detected subscriptions are stored.

Questions

The things people ask

Is my data safe?

The app uses read-only OAuth access and never stores passwords or email content. Tokens are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, and only the detected subscriptions are saved.

Which email providers work?

Gmail, Outlook and Hotmail, iCloud Mail, Yahoo, and any custom IMAP server — Fastmail, self-hosted, you name it.

How accurate is the detection?

The engine recognizes renewal emails from over 500 services, flags unusual amounts, and asks you to confirm every match — so nothing lands on your list without your say-so.

Is it free?

Yes — BeforeItBills is free to download on the App Store.

Where do I get it?

On the App Store, right now. The download is free and you'll see your full subscription list about two minutes after connecting your inbox.

Do I need to connect my bank account?

No. BeforeItBills tracks subscriptions without a bank account or card connection — it works entirely from the renewal emails in your inbox, so it works in any country, with any bank.

Start knowing before you owe.

Free on the App Store. Connect your inbox and see every subscription you’re paying for in about two minutes.

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