About

The Subscription Guide is written by Taku S. I also writeThe Nihon Spirits Guideand The Nihon Craft Guide, for the same kind of reader: someone who wants a straight answer before spending money, rather than a sales page dressed up as a review.

This site exists because subscriptions are now bought individually and paid for collectively. Nobody decides to spend $200 a month on recurring services; they decide fourteen separate times to spend $14, and the total only becomes visible on a bank statement. Meanwhile the comparisons available are fragmented — one site covers business software, another covers snack boxes, another covers streaming — and none of them treat the subscription bill as a single thing.

So this site treats them as one subject. It started with business software, devices that charge a monthly fee on top of the hardware, and subscription boxes, and each category is covered on its own terms, since a reader comparing CRMs and a reader comparing snack boxes are rarely the same person. Learning apps, privacy tools and streaming are planned and will appear in the menu once there are guides to read.

How we check

Every guide is built from the providers' own published information — current pricing pages, plan limits, cancellation terms — plus what real users report in public reviews (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot, Reddit), reading for themes that show up repeatedly rather than any single rating. Each article states the date its figures were last checked. Where a claim touches something regulated or industry-specific — trust accounting rules for law firms, for example — the article links the actual regulatory or professional-body source rather than restating a vendor's summary of it. Commission never changes how a service is ranked, and every comparison includes options that pay us nothing — details are on the affiliate disclosurepage.

Corrections

Pricing and features for subscription products change often, and an article can go stale between checks. If you spot a number that's out of date or a claim that's wrong, I want to know — corrections get made directly in the article, with the "prices checked on" date updated, not hidden by backdating the publish date. Reach out through thecontact page.