The Android subscription widget: next payments on your home screen
Subby's subscription tracker widget for Android puts your next payments on the home screen, each with a countdown, plus an overdue count and this month's normalised total. Tap the tick on a row to mark a payment paid without opening the app. The widget comes with PRO.
What's on the widget
Every row is one upcoming payment, soonest first: the service mark, the name, the amount, and a countdown that reads Today, Tomorrow or In 8 days. When something has slipped past its date, an overdue count appears in the header. The taller sizes pin a THIS MONTH total to the bottom edge, the one number the rows can't show you.
The service marks come from the same 600+ built-in brand library the app uses, drawn as tinted silhouettes so they stay legible against a photo wallpaper. Anything without a bundled mark falls back to a letter tile in the subscription's own colour.
The Android widget changes shape as you resize it
- Small. One card for the next payment: logo, name, amount, countdown.
- Wide and short. The same next payment, with more room around it.
- Tall. A scrolling list of upcoming payments, with the monthly total pinned under a divider so a half-visible row reads as "more below" rather than a clipped bug.
There's no size menu. Drag the handles and the widget picks the layout that fits.
Each widget gets its own theme and filter
Placing one opens a setup screen with a live preview and two choices:
- Theme. System, Light or Dark. Dark is true black, so on an OLED phone the card doesn't glow next to a black wallpaper. A one-pixel border is all that marks its edge.
- Show. All subscriptions, Next 5 only, or a single category.
Two widgets can sit on the same screen doing different jobs: Next 5 up top for the week ahead, Streaming below it for the category that keeps creeping.
The total always matches the filter
A Next 5 widget totals those five, a category widget totals that category, and an All widget totals everything active. Subby normalises each total to a monthly figure, so a yearly plan counts as its monthly share rather than dropping out or counting twice. Whatever the filter, every widget totals in your base currency.
One-tap mark as paid
Tap the tick on a row. Subby records the payment and rolls the date forward. You never leave the home screen. The new due date comes off the previous one, never off the moment you tapped, so marking something paid three days late doesn't push every future renewal three days out.
It lives on the home screen. There is no lock-screen version. To see a payment without unlocking the phone, use the notification reminder instead. It fires on the lead time you set for that subscription, and it keeps firing for a week after a due date you haven't marked paid. Enter a trial's first charge date as the due date, and the same reminder becomes a free trial reminder.
The Subby widget is a PRO feature
Tracking is free with no cap on how many subscriptions you add. The widget is one of the five things PRO adds, alongside an ad-free app, automatic weekly cloud backup to your own Google Drive, service icon requests and AI screenshot import. The setup screen says as much before you place anything, so nobody ends up with a widget they can't configure. Two subscriptions don't need a widget. It's worth the home-screen space once the list is long enough that you've stopped remembering what's next.
PRO is one payment that doesn't renew and doesn't expire. There is no monthly plan and nothing to cancel. You buy it per store, so a Google Play purchase covers that Google account's Android devices and doesn't carry over to the App Store. Paying once instead of monthly has its own page, a subscription tracker you pay for once. If you're still shortlisting apps, we put Subby next to five others in the best subscription tracker apps in 2026.
While you're on the home screen
Long-press the Subby icon and three shortcuts appear: Add subscription, Payments log and Search subscriptions. Adding a subscription and marking one paid are what you do most. The shortcuts and the widget cover both without a full app launch.
The subscription tracker widget on iPhone
The iPhone widget has the same theme and filter choices. You set them by long-pressing the widget and opening its system configuration. One-tap mark as paid works there too. Subby for iPhone is on the App Store.
Put your next payment on the home screen.
The free version tracks everything, ads included. The widget needs PRO, and you pay for PRO once.
Free · No account · No bank login