Every team I've worked with has a graveyard of SaaS subscriptions. They start as a free trial someone forgot to cancel, become a monthly charge nobody questions, and end the year as line items nobody can defend in a budget review. The number on the invoice is precise. The number that matters — are we using this? — is almost never measured.
I built SaaSpend to make that second number as easy to see as the first.
30-second takeaway
- The problem isn't the price of any one tool. It's the aggregate of tools nobody owns.
- "We might need it" is how spend compounds. A tracker turns that guess into a number.
- The useful output isn't a report — it's the three tools you cancel this week.
The invoice is a lagging indicator
A finance dashboard will happily show you total SaaS spend trending up and call it "growth." It won't tell you that the design tool licensed for the whole company is used by two people, or that the monitoring plan you tripled last incident season is still triple. Usage data exists; it's just never put next to the bill in the same view.
That's the whole product, really: put the bill and the usage in one place and let the contradiction do the talking.
Where it earns its keep
The win isn't a fancy chart. It's the conversation it forces: "why are we paying for this?" Most teams find the answer is "we're not sure," which is itself the answer. Cancelling the unambiguous zombies funds the tools people actually open.
SaaSpend runs in the browser, no account, no key. Paste your subscription list and it shows you what you're paying for versus what's clearly dead weight.
FAQ
What is SaaSpend?
A browser tool that helps you see SaaS spend next to actual usage, so you can spot subscriptions nobody uses. No account, no key.
Do I have to connect my bank or Stripe?
No. You bring the list you already have — a spreadsheet, an invoice export — and it does the analysis client-side.
Will it tell me exactly what to cancel?
It flags the obvious zombies and the outliers. The final call is yours, but it removes the "I don't know if anyone uses it" fog that keeps money leaking.
Author's Process
This product was built with AI coding tools. The interesting part wasn't the math — it was resisting the urge to add dashboards nobody asked for and keeping it to one honest question: paid-for vs used.
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