Learn how to cancel your Audible subscription, keep your audiobooks, and avoid losing credits. Includes the pause option and free-trial cancel steps.
Paying for Audible but barely opening the app? You are not stuck. Learning how to cancel your Audible subscription takes about two minutes once you know where the button hides. The tricky part is that Audible does not let you cancel inside the iPhone or Android app, so a lot of people tap around and give up. This guide walks you through the exact steps on the website, shows you how to cancel a free trial before you get charged, and explains the one thing most people miss: your books stay yours, but your leftover credits do not. You will also see a quieter option than canceling, in case you just need a break from the monthly fee.
To cancel Audible, open a web browser and go to audible.com, sign in with your Amazon login, open Account Details, then choose Cancel membership. You cannot cancel in the mobile app. You keep every audiobook you bought, but any unused credits are lost, so spend them first.
The whole process lives on the Audible website, not in the app. Grab your Amazon email and password and follow these steps.
Once you confirm, your membership stays active until the end of the billing period you already paid for. After that date, the monthly charge stops.
This is the part worth reading twice, because it decides whether canceling costs you anything.
Your purchased audiobooks are safe. Every title you bought with a credit or paid for with cash stays in your library forever, even after your membership ends. You can open the app and listen to them for years. Canceling does not delete your books.
Your unused credits are a different story. The moment your membership ends, any credits you have not spent disappear. Audible does not save them or pay you back for them. So before you cancel, browse the store and turn each leftover credit into an audiobook you actually want. Those titles are then yours to keep.
Remember that you cannot cancel from inside the iOS or Android app. The cancel option only shows up on the website. If you would rather not quit for good, Audible lets you pause your membership and put it on hold for up to three months, once a year. During a hold you skip the monthly payment and keep your credits, which makes pausing a smart way to save money without losing anything.
A free trial is easy to forget until the first real charge lands. To avoid that, cancel before the trial end date shown in your account.
The steps are the same as a paid cancellation. Go to audible.com in a browser, sign in, open Account Details, and choose Cancel membership. Do this at least a day before your trial ends so the timing does not surprise you.
Here is the good news for trial users: in most cases you still keep any audiobook you claimed during the trial, and you keep access to the service until the trial period runs out. Canceling early just stops the paid membership from starting. You will not be charged as long as you cancel before the last day of the trial.
Check your account page for the exact end date and set a reminder so you cancel with time to spare. Trial windows are short, and a single missed day can turn into a full month’s charge. If you claimed a trial credit, use it on a book you want before you cancel, since that credit disappears the same way a paid credit does.
You can start on your iPhone, but you have to leave the app to finish. Open Safari or Chrome on the phone and go to audible.com. Sign in, tap your name, open Account Details, and select Cancel membership. The mobile website has the button that the app is missing.
One thing to check: if you first signed up for Audible through Apple, your billing might run through your Apple subscriptions instead. In that rare case, open your iPhone Settings, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, and cancel Audible there. For most people, though, the audible.com website is the right place.
Canceling Audible is a one-time task. Keeping track of every other subscription is the ongoing one, and that is where a tool helps.
Ditchr is a free, private subscription tracker for iPhone and Android. It gathers all your subscriptions in one place and shows your monthly and yearly spending totals, so you can see what Audible and everything else really costs over a year. There is no bank login and no linking to your accounts. Ditchr does not move your money or cancel anything for you. It shows you what is renewing and points you toward the cancel steps.
The reminders are the useful part here. Ditchr can alert you before your Audible membership renews or before a free trial converts to a paid plan, which gives you time to spend leftover credits or cancel on the website first. You can also run a sweep, where you upload a screenshot, statement, or email and let Ditchr pull the subscriptions out for you so you do not have to type each one. If you want a hand deciding what to keep, the Nova AI assistant can talk it through with you.
None of this happens behind a paywall. Ditchr is built to be private and free, so you get the full picture of your recurring charges without handing over bank access.
Cancel Audible on the website, not in the app: audible.com, Account Details, Cancel membership. Spend your credits first, since you lose them, but keep every book you bought. If you only need a breather, pause the membership for a few months instead.
To stay ahead of the next renewal and every other subscription you are paying for, Ditchr tracks them all and reminds you before you get charged, free and private.
Ditchr tracks every subscription, reminds you before free trials and renewals charge you, and helps you ditch what you don't use. Free, private, no bank login.
Get Ditchr — freeYes. Any audiobook you bought with a credit or with cash is yours forever. It stays in your library and you can listen after you cancel. Only your monthly credits and membership perks go away.
Unused credits are erased the moment your membership ends. Audible does not refund them or hold them for later. Spend every credit on audiobooks before you cancel so nothing is wasted.
Usually no. The iPhone and Android apps do not have a cancel button. Open a web browser, go to audible.com, sign in, open Account Details, and choose Cancel membership there instead.
Yes. Audible lets you put your membership on hold for up to three months, once per year. You skip payments during the hold and you keep your existing credits, so it is a good middle option.
Ryan is a former app-support engineer who writes plain-English guides for cancelling and managing subscriptions across iPhone, Android, and the web. He has cancelled more free trials than he'd like to admit.
