Both are free TV trackers. Both let you record what each streaming service costs you. They are not the same product, and for most of what a tracker does, Simkl is the more capable one. There is exactly one thing this app does that Simkl does not — and if that thing is why you're here, the difference is large.
Verified against Simkl's own published documentation and product screenshots, August 2026. Sources at the bottom — check them.
| On subscriptions | Simkl | Help Me Binge |
|---|---|---|
| Store what each service costs you | Yes | Yes |
| Total monthly & yearly spend | Yes | Yes |
| Renewal dates | Yes | No |
| Renewal alerts | “Coming soon” | No |
| Cost per hour you actually watched | No | Yes |
| Automatically flags a service you haven't opened in 30 days | No — you decide | Yes |
| Dollar figure attached to that flag | No | Yes |
| Link straight to that service's cancel page | Written guides, 10 services | Direct link, in the app |
| Free-trial countdown vs. your actual backlog | No | Yes |
| Multi-currency | Yes | USD first |
| Price | Free; PRO $34.99/yr | Free, all of it |
| Account required | Yes | No |
Simkl's My Subscriptions screen, shipped March 2025, is a well-made ledger. You add Netflix, type $17.99, pick monthly, and it shows you two computed numbers: Total Monthly Cost and Total Yearly Cost. Its documentation says the point is to “easily identify unused services and cancel unnecessary ones” — and that's accurate: you identify them. The app holds the prices; it doesn't look at your viewing.
Simkl's comparison pages do claim more than that. One says “SIMKL tells you if you're actually using the services you pay for based on your watch logs.” We went looking for that feature and could not find it: not in the March 2025 launch announcement, not in the current feature documentation, and not in Simkl's own screenshots of the subscriptions screen, which show the two totals and nothing about hours. It may well be on their roadmap. As of today it does not appear to be in the product.
A couple of iOS apps advertise one-tap cancellation. It's worth understanding what that actually involves, because it isn't an integration.
No major streaming service offers a cancellation API. Netflix shut its public API to new developers in 2012 and closed it entirely in 2014, and it never covered billing. Hulu, Max, Disney+ and Paramount+ have never published a developer programme at all. The only programmatic subscription control that exists is reseller APIs behind negotiated commercial partnerships, and the bank-facing vendors in this space — Minna, now owned by Mastercard, and Subaio — sell to card issuers, not to apps. Subaio is candid that its own mechanism is largely email correspondence with the merchant, averaging two days.
So when an app offers one-tap cancellation, what it is really doing is holding your streaming login and your card number — including the CVC — and filling in the service's own checkout form on your behalf. That breaches the terms of use of every service involved: Netflix's terms specifically prohibit automated access and tell you not to reveal your payment method details to anyone, while making you responsible for whatever happens on your account.
We're not going to ask you for your Netflix password or your card. We'll tell you what to cancel and why, put the official cancellation page one tap away, and let you do it on the service's own site where it belongs.
You want episodes marked watched automatically, you want native apps, you watch a lot of anime, or you want renewal-date reminders. It's a mature, well-built tracker with a real community, and its subscription ledger is a genuinely useful addition.
The money is the reason you're looking. If what you actually want to know is which of these am I wasting money on, that's the question this app was built to answer, and it answers it from your real viewing rather than asking you to eyeball a total. It's free, there's nothing to install, and you don't need an account to start.
And you don't have to choose. Nothing stops you scrobbling in Simkl and running your numbers here.
Add what you're paying for, tick off a few things you've watched, and look at the Subscriptions tab. It'll tell you your cost per hour per service and flag anything you've gone quiet on. Free, no account, works in any browser, and you can export everything you put in.
Open the free app →