What to check before any free trial
A short checklist that applies to this subscription and to every other one you will be offered.
Last updated: 11 August 2026
This is not specific to this service
Everything below applies to any trial anywhere. We are putting it on a page that is trying to sell you a subscription because a reader who follows it will make a better decision, and a decision made properly is one nobody regrets later.
Six things to establish before you enter a card
- How long is the trial, exactly? Three days, seven, fourteen and thirty are all common and they are not interchangeable. This one is three days.
- What is the price afterwards, and per what? A weekly price and a monthly price look similar and differ by more than four times. This one is $39.95 per month.
- What is the billing method? Card, PayPal and phone bill all cancel differently. This one charges a credit card.
- When exactly is the first charge taken? At the start of the period, or the end? Here it is the start of each period, which means cancelling the day after a renewal is a day too late.
- How do you cancel, and where? Find the actual screen before you need it. Here it is your account settings with the service.
- What happens to anything you made or saved? For a content service the answer is usually that nothing carries over. Worth knowing before you build a habit on it.
Two habits that cost nothing
Set the reminder when you sign up, not later. The moment you enter the card is the only moment you are certainly thinking about the trial. Put a calendar entry one day before it ends, not on the day.
Write down what you signed up to. The date, the price, the cadence and how to cancel, in whatever place you keep such things. A subscription you cannot remember taking is a subscription you will not remember to cancel.
And the uncomfortable one
Ask yourself whether you are signing up because you want the thing, or because it is free right now. The second is how most unwanted subscriptions start. Three days at $0 costs nothing only if you actually decide at the end of it.