The Android subscription widget: next payments on your home screen

Subby's Android widget shows your next payments with a countdown on each, an overdue count, and this month's normalised total — and marks a payment as paid in one tap without opening the app. It's configurable per widget (theme and filter) and unlocks with PRO.

By the Subby team·Last updated August 12, 2026

What's on the widget

Every row is one upcoming payment, in the order it's coming: the service mark, the name, the amount, and a countdown that reads Today, Tomorrow or In 8 days. The header carries an overdue count when something's slipped past its date, and the taller sizes pin a THIS MONTH total to the bottom edge — the one loud figure on the card, because it's the only number representing what you can't see in the rows.

The service marks come from the same 600+ built-in brand library the app uses, drawn as tinted silhouettes so they stay legible against a photo wallpaper. Anything without a bundled mark falls back to a letter tile in the subscription's own colour.

It changes shape as you resize it

1. Small. A single hero card for the next payment — logo, name, amount, countdown.
2. Wide and short. The same next payment with room to breathe.
3. Tall. A scrolling list of upcoming payments, with the monthly total pinned under a divider so a half-visible row reads as "more below" rather than a clipped bug.

You don't pick a size in a menu; you drag the handles and the widget picks the layout that fits.

Every widget is configured on its own

Placing one opens a setup screen with a live preview and two choices:

• Theme — System, Light or Dark. Dark is the true-black one, which means on an OLED phone the card doesn't glow next to a black wallpaper; a one-pixel border is the only thing defining its edge.
• Show — All subscriptions, Next 5 only, or a single category.

Because the config is per widget, two widgets can sit on the same screen doing different jobs: Next 5 up top for the week ahead, Streaming below it for the category that keeps creeping.

The total always matches the filter

A Next 5 widget totals those five. A category widget totals that category. An All widget totals everything active. The total is normalised to a monthly figure, so a yearly plan is counted as its monthly share rather than dropped or double-counted — and every widget on the screen uses one base currency, so a Next-5 card and an All card can never disagree about what money they're speaking.

One-tap mark as paid

Tap the tick on a row and the payment is recorded and the date rolls forward, without opening the app. The next due date is always derived from the previous due date rather than from the moment you tapped, so marking something paid three days late doesn't quietly shift every future renewal by three days.

The widget is a PRO feature

Tracking is free with no cap on how many subscriptions you add; the widget is one of the five things PRO unlocks, alongside an ad-free app, automatic weekly cloud backup to your own Google Drive, service icon requests and AI screenshot import. The setup screen says so before you place anything, so you're never left with a widget on your home screen you can't configure.

PRO is one payment, yours forever — no monthly plan, nothing to cancel. It's bought per store, so a Google Play purchase covers that Google account's Android devices and doesn't carry over to the App Store.

While you're on the home screen

Long-pressing the Subby icon gives you three shortcuts that skip the app's front door: Add subscription, Payments log and Search subscriptions. Between those and the widget, the two things you do most — add one, mark one paid — never need a full app launch.

On iPhone

The iOS widget offers the same theme and filter choices, expressed as a system configuration you edit by long-pressing the widget, with the same one-tap mark as paid. Subby for iPhone is coming soon.