A Brit has developed an app that cancels a subscription before the trial period ends

The method of paying for applications is slowly but surely moving from a one-time payment system to a regular subscription. This applies not only to streaming services, but also to utilities and other types of applications. We pay for some subscriptions regularly, while we prefer to say goodbye to other applications after a certain trial period. But sometimes it can be difficult to keep track of these deadlines, and it can easily happen that we are surprised by an invoice with a newly deducted subscription for an application that we don't even care about. That is why a British developer has now developed an application that will take care of these matters for you.

The mentioned application is called DoNotPay and it includes a new feature called Free Trial Surfing. Its goal is to relieve users of the worry of expiring free trial periods for subscription software. Unfortunately, the application is not yet available here, but it was released in the UK this week and it is possible that we will see it in time. The creators of DoNotPay, with a bit of exaggeration, claim that the application will help users not only with tracking subscriptions, but also with revealing other hidden payments and even with a possible lawsuit.

At first glance, DoNotPay works in a slightly controversial way - it gives you a virtual credit card number and a fake name, under which you can then try any item from the App Store. Once you decide on the selected application, the Free Trial Surfing feature will automatically start, which will terminate the subscription before the trial period ends.

British developer Josh Browder is behind the app, DoNotPay works with one unnamed bank. Browder in an interview with the BBC that most people at the moment use the application to try a streaming service for free, but also to use porn services, for example. But Browder, in his own words, would like app developers to realize that it's not a good idea to offer free trial periods with auto-start subscriptions and hope that some users will forget at the end of that period.

Source: bbc