What your app subscriptions actually cost
Add up what you pay for every productivity app and see the yearly total. Free, no signup, nothing leaves your browser.
Nobody sets out to pay for eleven apps. It happens one $4.99 at a time, each one reasonable on its own, and the total never appears anywhere. Your bank sees eleven small charges on eleven different dates. You never see the sum.
So here it is. Put in what you actually pay and the calculator gives you the annual number.
The number that usually surprises people
Six apps at an average of $6 a month is $432 a year. That is the part people miss: individually every subscription is small enough to wave through, and collectively it is a flight.
The cost that isn't money
Every app you add is another place to check, another login, and another island of data that can't see the others. Your habit tracker doesn't know you were travelling. Your budget doesn't know you started a new job. You are also paying in the seconds spent switching, and in the decisions you can't make because the relevant facts live in four different places.
When consolidating is the wrong call
If one of your apps is genuinely best-in-class for something you do professionally every day, keep it. A designer shouldn't drop Figma to save $15. Consolidation pays off for the long tail - the five or six apps you use casually, where "good enough and connected" beats "excellent and isolated."