Subscription Manager vs Sbu Subscriptions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Subscription Manager
This app helps you track and manage all your recurring subscriptions, revealing hidden costs and preventing unwanted renewals. It offers features to import your spending data and provides alerts for trial expirations and upcoming payments, helping you save money.
- Magic Import for subscription discovery
- Instant import from screenshots, CSVs, bank statements
- Reveal hidden subscription costs
- Alerts for trial expirations
- Notifications for upcoming renewals
- Visual calendar of renewals
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Featured by Apple: “Our Favorites: Experience a Gorgeous New Design” & “Great apps for iOS26” Most people waste $1,500+ yearly on forgotten subscriptions, but only remember having 3 or 4. Join 20k+ people using Orbit—the subscription manager that reveals your hidden costs with Magic Import to uncover everything draining your bank account. See your spending by importing instantly from screenshots, CSVs, or bank statements. Cancel subscriptions you don’t use and save money. Why Orbit? - Magic Import: Find all your subscriptions with our guided setup - Instant Import: Add from screenshots, CSVs, or bank statements - See Hidden Costs: Your real yearly spending revealed in one view - End Trials on Time: Alerts before free trials convert to paid - No Surprise Renewals: Stay ahead with timely notifications - Visual Calendar: See all renewals at a glance - Privacy First: Everything stays on your device Orbit makes managing subscriptions feel clear—and even enjoyable. With support for 30+ languages and currencies, our signature beautiful design, and features that actually help you save money. Orbit Plus Cancel subscriptions. Save money. Join thousands using Orbit Plus with unlimited tracking, widgets, iCloud backup, and priority features. One-time purchase, no subscription. Privacy Policy: https://flooben.com/privacypolicy Terms of Use: https://flooben.com/termsandconditions
Sbu Subscriptions
Track all your recurring expenses in one place. Get timely reminders before renewals and trial periods end. Visualize your spending with a payments calendar and export your data.
- Unlimited subscription tracking
- Customizable renewal cycles
- Spending overview and currency conversion
- Free trial reminders
- Payments calendar
- Data export and import
- iCloud sync
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Add your subscriptions and at the top you see what you spend a year, or a month. Before each renewal a reminder tells you the day and the amount. - Unlimited subscriptions, from a list of known services or your own - Weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly cycles, every N days, weeks, months or years, one-off or in instalments - What you spend in one figure, with other currencies converted at the ECB rates included in the app, or at your own - Free trials with the days left and the price after the trial - Reminders before each renewal and before a trial ends, at the time you choose - Payments calendar with the month's total and what's still to pay - Price changes from a date, payment history and Mark as paid - Categories, lists and payment methods; sort, group, filter and search - Pause, cancel and reactivate without losing anything - Help to cancel: the service's website or your App Store subscriptions - Widgets for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen - Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight - Export and import as CSV, from a spreadsheet too - iCloud stays off until you turn it on: then your subscriptions sync across your devices, through your own iCloud - Share a list with anyone, through iCloud and only when you choose: they see it read only, with its total - Light and dark, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver Sbu does one thing: it tells you what your subscriptions cost, so no renewal takes you by surprise. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No account. No ads. No tracking. Data stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sbu Subscriptions at none against Subscription Manager's 4. Sbu Subscriptions also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Subscription Manager's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (129 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Subscription Manager sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Sbu Subscriptions asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sbu Subscriptions holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Subscription Manager has 129 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Subscription Manager's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sbu Subscriptions's.
Subscription Manager ships an update every 8 days, Sbu Subscriptions every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Subscription Manager | Sbu Subscriptions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (129 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 129 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flooben Ltd | Matteo Giuditta |
Customer experience
Subscription Manager
Sbu Subscriptions
Bugs and requests
Subscription Manager
Reported bugs
1 issue- Billing issue with 3 months cycle
Requested features
4 requests- Filter view by category
- 1-month before notification or custom notification
- Feature to have multiple billing lists or shared list
- Add total count of times billed for a subscription
Sbu Subscriptions
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Subscription Manager
- Orbit Plus Annual$19.991 Year
- Orbit Plus$12.99
- Orbit Plus Lifetime$24.99
- Orbit Plus Lifetime$39.99
Sbu Subscriptions
No in-app purchases
Questions
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