One inbox for the whole household.
Streaming on your card, cloud storage on your partner's, the kids' apps on both — and nobody sure what the family actually pays each month. ShelfLife answers that in one screen, and keeps it answered.
No trial clock. No "premium" upsell waiting behind a corner. Free is the family plan.
Sound familiar?
Modern households run on subscriptions, and subscriptions are designed to be forgotten.
Two of everything
You've been paying for a music service. So has your partner — a different one, for the same house. Neither of you knew, because the receipts land in two different inboxes.
The ghost charges
An app someone tried in 2024. A storage tier the phone talked you into. £3.99 here, $7.99 there — individually invisible, collectively a holiday.
The annual ambush
Annual renewals are the worst kind: big enough to hurt, rare enough to forget. They arrive as a done deal — the money already gone by the time you'd have said no.
How a family runs it
One person signs up and gets the household's private intake address. Then everyone — you, your partner, anyone else who pays for things — sets up a simple habit or a mail rule: receipts get forwarded to the family inbox.
Each subscription in ShelfLife gets an owner. Netflix might be "Shared", the iPad games are "Kids", the running app is yours alone. Owners work exactly like teams do in a company — because under the hood, that's what they are.
From then on, the household has something it's probably never had: a single, current answer to "what do we pay for?"
From: James <james@outlook.com>
Fwd: Netflix — your payment receipt
→ filed under Netflix · owner: Shared
From: Sarah <sarah@gmail.com>
Fwd: Your iCloud+ invoice
→ filed under iCloud+ · owner: Sarah
From: James <james@outlook.com>
Fwd: Strava subscription renewal
→ filed under Strava · owner: James
What you get
Everything a household needs, nothing it doesn't.
The whole picture, or one person's slice
- Family total — every subscription, monthly and annualized, in one number you can actually trust.
- Per-person view — filter to what you own, what your partner owns, what's shared. Perfect for the "whose card is that on?" conversation.
- Side-by-side clarity — two music services in one house stops being invisible the day both receipts land in the same list.
Renewals you see coming
- Upcoming renewals view — what's about to charge, and when, so the annual ambush becomes an annual decision.
- Every invoice kept — the original emails and amounts stay attached to each subscription. No more searching four inboxes.
- History that writes itself — when a price creeps up, you'll see the creep, because last year's invoice is right there.
Built for more than one human
- One shared inbox address — the whole household forwards to the same place; nobody needs their own login just to forward a receipt.
- Invite who you like — give your partner full access, and you both see the same live picture.
- No member limits — couples, kids, flatmates, grandparents. A household is whoever you say it is.
Respectfully boring
- No bank access — ever. ShelfLife sees only what you forward. Your banking credentials are none of our business.
- No selling, no snooping — your subscriptions are processed by software, never read by people, never shared with anyone.
- No nags — it's a ledger, not a lifestyle app. Open it when you have a question.
Why is it free? And why do you want a card?
Free for families isn't a teaser — it's the plan. A household's subscription list is small, costs us almost nothing to run, and we'd rather families simply have this than squeeze them for $4/month. Businesses, whose software sprawl is genuinely expensive to them and valuable to tame, pay — and that funds the whole thing. Free covers up to 25 apps — more than double any other free tracker, and enough for a genuinely subscribed-up household.
The card at signup exists for one reason: it proves you're a real person and keeps bots and abusers out of the intake system everyone shares. On the family plan it is never charged. Not after a trial (there is no trial — it's just free), not "accidentally", not ever. That's a promise we've put in writing on the front page.
Tonight's admin: forward three receipts.
That's a realistic first evening with ShelfLife. By the weekend, your household will know its number — probably for the first time.
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