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Android Subscription Surveillance App That Catches Hidden In-App Renewals Across Stores, Email, and Bank

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Phone users are noticing that 'every app is a subscription' but the cancellation paths are scattered across Google Play, app developer websites, App Store sandbox renewals, and credit-card bills. They want one Android app that reads (with consent) Play purchase history, Gmail receipt scrapes, and bank transactions to surface every recurring charge with a one-tap cancel link, including the developer-site subscriptions Play doesn't see. Rocket Money does this for US bank accounts but ignores the Play/Apple-billed half.

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The wedge is Gmail-scraped receipts. Most Stripe/Paddle subs send identical-template receipts; a parser plus a 'pause and refund' macro per provider beats Rocket Money's bank-only view at zero infra cost.

landscape (3 existing solutions)

Subscription trackers split the world into 'bank side' (Rocket Money) and 'store side' (Play Subs screen) and nobody owns the union — which is exactly where the hidden charges live.

Rocket Money US-only bank-aware view; doesn't ingest Play Store purchase history or developer-billed renewals; concierge cancel is a $4-12/mo upcharge.
Subby / Subscriptions Tracker apps on Play Manual entry only, so users miss the very subscriptions they're trying to track.
Google Play 'Subscriptions' screen Only shows Play-billed subs; misses any developer-billed Stripe/Paddle subscription, which is most of the new wave.

sources (2)

reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/1sv539k/when_d... "When did every app become a subscription? Is it just me?" 2026-04-23
reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/1sqpr2r/whats_... "What's your best one-time app purchase and why" 2026-04-19
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