Comparison

RenewPal vs surf

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

RenewPal

Manage all your subscriptions and recurring bills in one secure place. Get reminders for upcoming renewals and free trials, and easily track your monthly and yearly spending. Import subscription details from screenshots, PDFs, or spreadsheets without connecting your bank.

Highlights
  • Track subscriptions, bills, and free trials
  • Manage recurring expenses
  • View monthly and yearly spending
  • Renewal and free-trial reminders
  • Import from screenshots, PDFs, and CSVs
  • Private by design, no bank connection
  • Spot duplicate subscriptions and price changes
Features
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Track every subscription, manage recurring bills, and never miss a renewal. RenewPal is a private subscription tracker and subscription manager that helps you manage subscriptions, bills, free trials, and recurring expenses in one place. See what you're spending each month and year, find duplicate subscriptions and price changes, and get reminders before upcoming payments so you can stay in control. MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS & BILLS • Track subscriptions, memberships, bills, and free trials • Manage recurring expenses in one place • See monthly and yearly subscription spending • Get renewal and free-trial reminders before you're charged • View upcoming payments by day, week, or month • Spot duplicate subscriptions and price changes • Organize streaming, AI, software, fitness, gaming, and more IMPORT WITHOUT CONNECTING YOUR BANK Quickly find subscriptions from: • Screenshots and photos • Bank statement PDFs • Spreadsheets and CSV files PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your subscription data stays on your iPhone, with optional sync through your private iCloud account. No ads. No bank connection. No selling your financial data. GO PRO Unlock unlimited subscriptions, smart import, and advanced reminders: • RenewPal Pro (Yearly) — try free for 7 days, then billed annually • RenewPal Pro (Lifetime) — one-time purchase, yours forever Let the RenewPal bird keep watch while you stay in control of what's renewing next. Terms of Use: https://renewpal.netlify.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://renewpal.netlify.app/privacy

About

surf

Easily track all your streaming subscriptions in one place. See your spending, identify unused services, and pause or cancel them with a single tap. Rediscover what you're watching and manage your entertainment costs effectively.

Highlights
  • Consolidate all streaming subscriptions
  • View subscription plans and prices
  • Identify unused services
  • Pause or cancel subscriptions with one tap
  • Restore paused services easily
  • Get content recommendations
  • Secure sign-in process
Features
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surf brings every streaming subscription you pay for into one place, so you can finally see what you are spending and easily pause or cancel the services nobody is watching. FIX THE PROBLEM TV used to be cheap and relaxing. Now it's neither. Somewhere along the way, watching TV got expensive and exhausting. Five subscriptions. Prices that go up every year. Ads on a plan that you already pay for. The show you were halfway through turns out to be on a service you cancelled, and the one you are paying for right now... nobody has opened it since last Spring. SEE ALL YOUR STREAMING EXPENSES IN ONE VIEW Every service you subscribe to, with the plan and the price, side by side. No spreadsheet, no guessing, no logging into six different websites to piece it together. Most people are genuinely surprised by what their streaming actually costs. FIND WHAT SERVICES AREN'T USED surf shows you the services that nobody in your household has opened in a while. For most people this is the moment they realize they have been wasting money on something since last season. PAUSE OR CANCEL IN ONE TAP When you decide a service can go, one click in surf is all it takes. No retention offers. No four screens of 'Are you sure?' No dark pattern designed to wear you down until you give up and keep paying. You confirm every action. surf never pauses, cancels, or changes a subscription on its own. RESTORE A SERVICE JUST AS FAST Pausing and canceling does not mean 'losing.' Streaming services keep your profiles, your watchlists and your history right where you left them, and surf makes turning something back on as quick as turning it off. Watch a show, then pause again until the next season. Or take advantage of a service's free trial, and then cancel in one tap before you get billed. Pay for only what you are watching, when you are watching it. FIND SOMETHING TO WATCH The other tax on streaming is time. Twenty minutes of scrolling only to give up and rewatch something from the archives. surf gives you recommendations across the services you currently pay for, so you are choosing from what's already available. And surf doesn't recommend content because a company is paying us to, only the content that's right for you. Or just tell surf what you're in the mood for and surf will set you up. HOW LINKING A SERVICE WORKS To read your plan and your price, surf asks you to sign in to a service. You do that on the provider's own sign-in page, loaded inside the app. surf never sees your password, never fills the form for you, and never stores it. Any two-factor authentication is between you and the provider, exactly the same way you log into that provider's own app. YOUR DATA, YOUR CALL You can delete your surf account from inside the app at any time. Doing that removes all stored session material for every service you linked. surf contains no advertising, no tracking identifier, and no third-party analytics. We are on your side. You are the customer here, not the product.

Screenshots

RenewPal4 screens
surf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: surf at none against RenewPal's 2. surf also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. RenewPal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. surf asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

surf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
RenewPal versus surf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRenewPalsurf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (8 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKashmira KikaniSURF SYSTEMS, INC

Customer experience

RenewPal

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

surf

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

RenewPal

Subscriptions1
  • RenewPal Pro Annual7 Days trial$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • RenewPal Lifetime Pro$9.99
None

surf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RenewPal free?
RenewPal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is surf free?
surf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RenewPal or surf?
surf is rated higher. RenewPal averages 4.8 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while surf averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do RenewPal or surf have ads?
Neither RenewPal nor surf shows ads.

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