Open your bank statement right now.
Count every subscription. Netflix. Spotify. ChatGPT Plus. Claude. Adobe. Apple One. Disney . iCloud. YouTube Premium. Audible. NYT. Dropbox. Notion. Gym. Dating app.
A 2026 study found the average American spends $219 a month on subscriptions. That is $2,628 a year.
But they estimate they spend $86 a month.
74% of people admit they have forgotten about a recurring charge.
42% are currently paying for a subscription they have stopped using.
A Portuguese developer named Miguel Ribeiro got tired of bleeding money to forgotten subscriptions. He lives in Berlin and works as a senior frontend engineer at eBay Kleinanzeigen by day. At night he tried Billbot and a bunch of paid web apps. None of them worked. Some of them charged him a monthly fee to track his monthly fees.
So in October 2023 he wrote his own.
The repo today:
→ 7,922 stars
→ 365 forks
→ GPL-3.0 licensed
→ Pushed last week
→ 69 followers on the founder's profile
It is called Wallos. You self-host it. It tracks every subscription, every renewal date, every category, every currency, and shows you the actual number on one screen.
Here is the wildest part:
The subscription companies designed the system this way on purpose. 72% of people set everything to auto-pay because the checkout flow defaults to it. Cancellation pages are buried 5 clicks deep. Some require a phone call during business hours.
A 2022 FTC report called this "dark patterns" and Adobe is paying $150 million in a settlement for hiding cancellation fees this exact way.
Miguel did not raise venture capital. He did not write a Medium post. He did not go on a podcast. He shipped one PHP app from his apartment in Berlin and now thousands of people use it to claw back hundreds of dollars a year.
The honest part:
It needs a tiny server (a $5 Raspberry Pi works). You have to enter subscriptions yourself, it does not auto-detect from your bank. The UI is functional, not gorgeous. The author still works a day job and ships updates in his spare time.
Berlin. One developer. The companies that auto-charge you forever finally have an enemy.