Subby vs ReSubs

Both track subscriptions by hand on iPhone and Android, and neither touches your bank. The difference is the bill. ReSubs sells weekly, monthly, yearly and lifetime Premium tiers on its App Store listing, while Subby’s tracker is free with no cap and PRO is a single one-time purchase.

By the Subby team·Last updated September 2, 2026

The short version

Subby vs ReSubs is a narrow comparison. The two apps do the same job the same way: you add each subscription yourself, the app warns you before the next charge lands, and neither one asks for a bank login. That cuts both ways, because an app that never sees your statement can never find the one you forgot. So the only thing left to compare is how often the tracker itself charges you, and that is where anyone shopping for a ReSubs alternative ends up.

ReSubs is free to download and sells a Premium unlock. Its App Store listing shows in-app purchases from $1.99 (Premium Weekly) up to $54.99 (Premium Lifetime), with monthly and yearly tiers in between. Our tracker is free and uncapped, and Subby PRO is one payment with nothing to renew.

Subby vs ReSubs, side by side

What ReSubs has going for it

ReSubs is ahead of us in two places.

• Reach. It ships on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision and Android, and its App Store listing shows English and 24 more languages. Subby covers 31, so the platform list is the real difference: if you need it on a Mac or an iPad, that decides it.
• Updates. Version 1.36.0 had shipped within a day of our check, so someone is working on it.

It also keeps its hands off your bank, which plenty of trackers want a look at. Our roundup of the best subscription tracker apps in 2026 groups it with the other manual trackers. Read Subby vs Rocket Money if you are weighing up a bank feed, or Subby vs Bobby if you have already narrowed it down to apps that charge once.

What Subby does differently

• The free version is the whole tracker. Add, edit, categorize, pause and archive as many subscriptions as you like, with no free-tier limit to hit. Ads pay for it.
• PRO is one payment. It removes ads and adds automatic weekly cloud backup to your own Drive (and iCloud on iPhone, last three kept), the home-screen widget, service icon requests, and AI screenshot import. You pick a screenshot of a receipt, bill or store page. An AI reads the name, price and cycle, and you confirm every value before Subby saves anything.
• You never create an account. No email and no password to reset.
• 600+ built-in service logos, 46 currencies, 31 languages. We refresh exchange rates from our server, so a multi-currency list still totals correctly.
• Billing cycles that match real invoices. Eight presets: weekly, biweekly, 4-weekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly, plus custom cadences like “every 45 days”.
• Reminders that don’t give up. Set a lead time per subscription, from same-day to a week ahead, or any custom value. When a due date passes unpaid, the reminder comes back for seven days instead of vanishing the moment you swipe it away.

Moving your list from ReSubs to Subby

1. Open your current list and screenshot it. One screenshot per screen is fine.
2. In Subby, add each service from the built-in presets, or hand those screenshots to AI screenshot import (PRO) and confirm what it reads back.
3. Set the next payment date from the real one on your statement, not from today. Subby derives every future date from the previous due date, so getting the first one right fixes the whole series.
4. Pick a reminder lead time per subscription. There is no account to keep alive and no bank connection to re-link.

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