LapseWatch has three entry points. Pick one and start — you do not need all three. Each section below starts from zero; by the end of one you should have your first reminder set.
In a hurry: add the LINE bot and send it “Netflix 12/25”. That is the whole thing. No signup, no install, no credit card.
Fastest, and right for most people
Add it as a friend and send one line. Reminders arrive on your phone, so it does not matter whether the computer is on.
No signup · No install · Free
If you subscribe to things at your desk
Click the icon on the confirmation page and it finds the renewal date. Nothing is saved until you confirm it.
No signup · No network · Data stays on your computer
If you want to sort everything out at once
Sign in to sync between phone and computer, and to share the list with family.
Sign-in required · Free · One-click export
Once you are signed in, all three show the same list. What you record in LINE appears on the web; what you edit on the web is what LINE reports back. The one exception is the extension while not signed in — that data is on your own computer and we cannot see it at all.
@473cljaj in LINE.
The amount is optional. To change something, just send the same name again — sending the same name twice updates it, you do not have to delete anything first.
| You send | What it does |
|---|---|
list |
Lists what you are tracking and when each is charged |
spend |
Totals what you spend per month and per year |
review |
What the subscriptions you dropped this year were worth |
delete Netflix |
Stops tracking that one |
cancel Netflix |
Sends you that service's official cancellation page |
bind email |
Links an email address so you can sign in to the web with the same account |
stop report / start report |
Turns the monthly summary off or back on |
help |
Shows everything it understands |
You do not have to memorise any of this — the six-panel menu below the chat box does the same things with one tap. The bot replies in Traditional Chinese, but it accepts these English commands.
Right for people who subscribe to things at a computer. There is exactly one moment to use it: just after you have subscribed, while you are still on that page.
The extension is not on the store yet.
It is going through review. To start now, add the LINE bot and send it “Netflix 12/25”. No install, no signup.
Honestly: browser reminders can be late. Alarms do not fire while the computer is asleep; they are caught up once you wake it. That is a browser limitation, not a setting you can fix.
That is why “Add to Google Calendar” is given so much room — calendar alerts fire on time and reach your phone. Taking reminders through LINE avoids the problem too.
The extension reads no input fields; password and card fields do not exist as far as it is concerned. Even the last four digits of a card printed as ordinary text on a confirmation page are masked before anything is analysed, and masking cannot be reversed. Details in the Privacy Policy.
bind email first.
The web can do two things LINE cannot: export the list to a file, and share the list with family (up to 5 people).
The signed-in app is in Traditional Chinese. The list, the account settings and checkout have not been translated — they are the parts where the strings live in the application itself, and a half-translated screen is worse than an untranslated one, because you hit the Chinese in the middle of a task.
Decide whether to keep it. If you want to cancel, the cancellation guides (zh-Hant) link straight to each service's official cancellation page, with no tracking parameters — LapseWatch never cancels anything for you and never presses a payment button on your behalf.
The free tier has no limit on how many subscriptions you track and includes LINE, email and desktop notifications. It reminds you 3 days and 1 day before.
Paying buys when you are reminded — a reminder every day for the last three days, through the morning of the charge — plus your own choice of reminder days, price-change alerts and shared lists. It is NT$390 once (about US$12): no subscription, no renewal, nothing to cancel. Full refund within 30 days, no reason required. See Plans and pricing.
Many pages say “7-day free trial” without printing a date, or put the date in an image. Type the date in yourself — everything else behaves identically.
Because the page usually does not say when the trial started, so “count from today” is only a guess. A wrong date is more dangerous than a blank one, because you would assume it was set. The calculation is shown, but it enters the field only when you press the button.
Alarms do not fire while the computer is asleep. Use LINE or the Google Calendar event for anything that has to be punctual. If several reminders are overdue at once they are merged into one notification rather than firing repeatedly.
Send the bot bind email, give it an address, and use that address to sign
in.
No. It tells you where to cancel; you press the button. It will never click a payment or refund button on your behalf.
In the extension, settings → “Clear all data” removes every reminder and schedule at once, irreversibly. For an account, email alan930604@gmail.com and we will delete it along with the licence and payment records.