Join the beta

Free trials that cancel themselves.

Sign up with your TrialGuard email address. We read the welcome email and the fine print, work out exactly when the first charge lands, and cancel two days before it — automatically, unless you tell us to keep it.

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Now enrolling a 200-person concierge beta. Free while we prove it. No card required — obviously.

2 days
early — every cancellation fires before the deadline, not on it
1 address
is the whole setup — use it at signup, we do the rest
0
charges that should ever surprise you again
Case file · sample Auto-cancel armed
Streamly+
$12.99/mo
after trial
Signed up—
Trial length14 days
First charge—
Cancel methodOnline · no phone call
The gotchaDeadline is 11:59 PM Pacific
TrialGuard cancels—
Day — of 14Buffer: 2 days
Cancelling in
—
Illustrative case file — the dates are computed live from today, the way a real one would be.
01 — THE TRAP

The trial isn't free. It's a timer you can't see.

Every "free" trial is a scheduled charge with the date buried in the terms. The business model counts on you forgetting. Here is the standard playbook:

T-01 The silent conversion

No reminder email, no warning push. The first sign the trial ended is the charge on your statement.

T-02 The timezone shuffle

"Cancel by the 30th" quietly means 11:59 PM Pacific — or the company's home timezone, not yours. Cancel "on time" and still get billed.

T-03 The phone-only exit

Signing up took one click. Cancelling takes a phone call, during business hours, with a retention script on the other end.

T-04 The retention maze

Six screens of "Are you sure?", a discount detour, and a cancel button styled to look disabled. Built to wear you down.

T-05 The sold address

Your email gets passed to "partners." The trial ends; the spam doesn't. Your real inbox pays for a service you used once.

02 — HOW IT WORKS

One email address does the integrating.

No browser plugin, no new habits, nothing to install. The inbox is the integration — the welcome email every service already sends is all TrialGuard needs to start the clock.

01

Sign up with your Guard address

Every trial gets your TrialGuard alias instead of your real email. If that service ever sells its list, it sold a dead end — your real inbox never hears about it.

02

We read the fine print

The AI parses the welcome email and the terms: trial length, the exact first-charge date and amount, how cancellation works, and the gotchas. Then it sets the cancellation clock two days early — beating the timezone games and the "by 11:59 PM" fine print.

03

It cancels itself

Before the deadline, the trial is cancelled and you get the confirmation. Want to keep the service? One tap on Keep and we stand down. And if a service plays games with its cancel flow, the virtual card on file gets paused — the charge physically can't land.

you​@trialguard.mail

Use it anywhere you'd normally type your real email at signup. Same address every time — the clock starts the moment the welcome email lands.

03 — DO THE MATH

When should you cancel?

This is the exact math TrialGuard runs on every signup. Pick a trial you're in right now — most people are surprised how close the charge already is, and how much earlier the safe cancel date is than the deadline printed in the terms.

The two-day buffer isn't caution for its own sake. It absorbs timezone cutoffs, "processing" delays, and cancel flows that mysteriously fail on the last day.

They charge you on—
Last safe day per the terms—
TrialGuard cancels on—
From today, that's—

In the real product you never see this screen — the dates come out of the welcome email automatically. This is just the math, out in the open.

$7ONE "ONE-TIME" PDF REPORT

TrialGuard started with a $7 PDF report from a public-records site — a one-time download that quietly came with a subscription attached. I caught it before the monthly charge landed. Most people find out from their bank statement, weeks later, $29.95 at a time.

Reminder apps don't fix this; by the time a charge posts, the money's already gone. TrialGuard is prevention, not cleanup: the cancellation happens before the deadline, every time, whether you remember or not.

— JERRY, FOUNDER
04 — PRICING

Flat price. No cut of your savings.

We charge a subscription to end subscriptions — we know how that sounds. The difference: ours is the one you chose, it says its price up front, and cancelling it takes one click. We deliberately don't take a percentage of what we save you; a fee that grows when you almost-forget is a conflict of interest wearing a business model.

Starter

$0

For the occasional trial

  • Up to 3 active trials tracked
  • Your TrialGuard alias address
  • Fine print read on every signup
  • Cancel-by dates + reminder alerts
  • Spam absorbed by the alias, not your inbox
Start free
The whole point

Guard

$4.99/month

Trials cancel themselves

  • Unlimited active trials
  • Automatic cancellation, 2 days early
  • Virtual-card backstop — if they won't let you cancel, the card pauses and the charge can't land
  • One-tap Keep when you actually want the service
  • A human in your corner when a service hides the exit
Join the beta

One avoided $29.95 charge pays for six months of Guard. During the concierge beta, Guard is free for the first 200 members — we're running every cancellation by hand, on the same checklist the software will use, before we automate a single one.

05 — QUESTIONS

Straight answers

How does TrialGuard know my deadline?

The welcome email and the terms of service contain everything: trial length, first charge date and amount, and how cancellation works. The AI extracts those fields, cross-checks them, and sets the cancellation for two days before the first charge. If anything's ambiguous, a human reviews it during the beta — a wrong date is the one error we can't afford.

What if I actually want to keep a service?

Tap Keep on the trial's case file any time before the cancellation fires, and we stand down completely. The default is cancel, because forgetting defaults you into paying — keeping should be the deliberate choice, not the accident.

Who cancels my trials during the beta?

A person, following the same checklist the software will run later. The first 200 members are a concierge beta on purpose: we'd rather prove the cancellation flows by hand — including the ugly phone-only ones — than automate something unproven and miss your deadline.

What if a service makes cancelling nearly impossible?

That's what the virtual card is for. On Guard, each trial can sit on its own virtual card number. If a service buries the exit or "loses" your cancellation, the card gets paused before the charge date — there's nothing for the charge to land on, and the paper trail is yours.

What happens to my real email address?

It never gets handed out. Trials live on your TrialGuard alias; anything sent there — receipts, reminders, and yes, spam if a list gets sold — lands in the alias inbox, where it's useful evidence and zero nuisance.

Can I cancel TrialGuard itself in one click?

Yes. Anything else would be a bit rich, coming from us.

06 — CONCIERGE BETA

The first 200 spots are run by hand.

Tell us you're in, and here's exactly what happens: you get your TrialGuard address, you use it the next time a "free" trial asks for your email, and we track the deadline and handle the cancellation ourselves — while you watch it work. If it saves you even once, you'll know what it's worth.

200 spots Free during beta No card required

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