Cancel Crunchyroll on web, iPhone, Android, or Roku. What happens to your access, why charges may continue, and how to stop them for good.
You started watching one anime series and signed up for Crunchyroll to finish it. That was months ago. The show ended, you moved on, and the subscription kept billing your card quietly every month. Canceling your Crunchyroll subscription takes about two minutes on the website, but there’s a catch that trips up a lot of people: if you subscribed through Apple, Google Play, Roku, or Amazon instead of Crunchyroll’s own site, those platforms handle your billing. Canceling at Crunchyroll.com won’t stop those charges. You have to cancel wherever you originally signed up.
This guide covers every cancellation path (web, iPhone, Android, Roku, and Amazon) so you end the right charge in the right place.
To cancel Crunchyroll, log in at crunchyroll.com, open Settings, go to Account Settings, and click Cancel Membership under the Membership section. If you subscribed through Apple, Google Play, Roku, or Amazon, cancel through those platforms instead. You keep full access until the end of your current billing period, and Crunchyroll doesn’t issue partial refunds.
The web method is the most reliable route for anyone who signed up directly at Crunchyroll.com. It works on a laptop, tablet, or phone browser. Just don’t use the mobile app for this step; the account management screens are easier to find on the full site.
Within a few minutes you should receive a confirmation email. If it doesn’t arrive, log back in and check the Membership section: it should show a cancellation date and the last day your plan stays active. A cancel click that didn’t save is easy to miss, and without that email you can’t prove you went through the process.
One thing to check first: before you start, open Account Settings and look at the Billing section. If it says your billing is managed by Apple, Google, Roku, or another partner, the web method won’t cancel that charge. Skip to the section below that matches where you signed up.
If a third-party platform handles your Crunchyroll billing, the platform manages your subscription entirely. Crunchyroll’s website will show your membership as active even after you click around on their settings page because those settings only apply to direct billing accounts.
On iPhone or iPad (Apple billing)
Open the Settings app, tap your name at the top, then tap Subscriptions. Find Crunchyroll in the list and tap it. Tap Cancel Subscription, then confirm. If you don’t see Crunchyroll in your subscription list, Apple isn’t the biller, so check the other platforms.
On Android (Google Play billing)
Open the Google Play Store and tap your profile icon in the top right. Select Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions. Find Crunchyroll in the list and tap Cancel Subscription.
On Roku
Go to roku.com/account in a browser and sign in. Navigate to Manage Account, then Manage Subscriptions. Find Crunchyroll and cancel from there.
On Amazon (or Fire TV)
On amazon.com, go to Account & Lists, then Memberships & Subscriptions. You may also find it under Prime Video Channels depending on how you subscribed. Locate Crunchyroll and select the cancel option.
On PlayStation
On a PS4 or PS5, go to Settings, then Account Management, then Account Information, then PlayStation Subscriptions. Find Crunchyroll and follow the cancel steps. You can also cancel through PlayStation’s website if you prefer.
The pattern is the same in each case: go to the store you used to sign up, find your subscriptions list, and cancel there. Crunchyroll won’t appear in places where it isn’t billing you. The same third-party billing logic applies to other streaming apps. If you’ve also been trying to figure out how to cancel your Hulu subscription or FuboTV, the provider-matching step is the same for all of them.
Crunchyroll launched in 2006 in San Francisco as a fan-run anime site and grew into the world’s largest dedicated anime streaming service. Sony acquired it through the 2021 Funimation deal, folding in the VRV and Wakanam catalogs. As of 2023 the platform counted 13 million paid subscribers across 200-plus countries, with over 45,000 episodes and 4,000 hours of drama available. Three paid tiers bill monthly or annually: Fan at $7.99 per month (ad-free, 1 stream), Mega Fan at $9.99 per month (4 simultaneous streams, offline downloads), and Ultimate Fan at $14.99 per month (adds digital manga access). New accounts can start with a 14-day free trial. Crunchyroll doesn’t offer a subscription pause. If you want a break, cancel and resubscribe when you’re ready. The platform doesn’t issue refunds for unused days in your billing cycle; a documented billing error or duplicate charge is the main exception.
After you cancel, you keep full streaming access until your billing period expires. On a monthly plan, that means you can keep watching until the date your next charge would have landed. On an annual plan, you keep access for the rest of the year you paid for. When the period ends, your account doesn’t close; it drops to the free tier with ads. Your watchlist, watch history, and profile all stay on the account. If you ever resubscribe, you pick up right where you left off without losing anything.
The one thing that won’t come back is the days you didn’t use. Crunchyroll doesn’t prorate a refund for the unused portion of a paid period.
Getting a Crunchyroll charge after you thought you’d canceled almost always comes down to one of two things.
The first is canceling in the wrong place, which this guide covers above. If Apple or Google is billing you and you clicked through Crunchyroll’s website, the charge continues because Crunchyroll’s settings page has no control over Apple’s or Google’s billing.
The second is a timing issue. Crunchyroll processes cancellations immediately, but your bank may still show a pending charge that was already queued before you canceled. A charge that processed on the same day you canceled is usually for the billing cycle that was already in motion. If a full new cycle starts after you confirmed the cancellation, that’s worth contacting Crunchyroll support about. Keep your confirmation email as proof.
One more edge case: if you share an account and someone on the account restarted the subscription, you’ll see charges even if you canceled your own access to billing. Check with anyone else who uses the account.
Canceling Crunchyroll today solves today’s problem. The harder part is staying on top of all the subscriptions you have: the streaming apps, the gym membership, the apps you tried on a free trial and forgot. Most people have no single place where they can see everything at once.
Ditchr is a free subscription tracker for iPhone and Android that puts every recurring charge in one dashboard. Add Crunchyroll, Netflix, Spotify, your gym app, and anything else manually or by running a sweep (upload a screenshot of your statement, a forwarded receipt email, or your App Store subscriptions page and Ditchr pulls the details out for you). Your monthly total and yearly spend show up front, sorted by what’s costing you most.
The renewal reminder is the piece that changes the math. Ditchr sends you a notification before each subscription renews and before any free trial ends, so you’re never surprised by a charge you didn’t see coming. If you start a new Crunchyroll free trial next season to watch one series, a reminder shows up before the trial converts to paid, giving you a real choice instead of a surprise charge.
Ditchr never connects to your bank login and never moves your money. It tracks your subscriptions and points you to where you need to go to cancel the ones you’re done with.
Download Ditchr free at ditchr.app and run a quick sweep. You’ll likely find at least one subscription you forgot you had.
Cancel Crunchyroll at crunchyroll.com under Account Settings if you subscribed directly. If you came in through Apple, Google, Roku, or Amazon, cancel through that platform’s subscription settings; the Crunchyroll website can’t touch those charges. Either way, you keep access until your paid period ends with no partial refund. And once you’re done canceling, Ditchr is the free tracker that sends you a heads-up before the next streaming charge you forgot about lands on your card.
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 — freeYou most likely canceled in the wrong place. If you signed up through Apple, Google Play, Roku, or Amazon, those platforms handle your billing, not Crunchyroll. Canceling inside the Crunchyroll website won't stop a charge from Apple or Google. Go back to where you originally subscribed and cancel there.
No. Crunchyroll doesn't issue refunds for unused days in your billing cycle. After you cancel, you keep full access until the period you paid for runs out. Exceptions exist for documented billing errors or duplicate charges, but the standard policy is no refunds.
You keep full streaming access until the end of your billing period. After that, your account drops to the free tier with ads rather than shutting down completely. Your watchlist, watch history, and profile all stay intact, so if you resubscribe later you'll pick up where you left off.
Crunchyroll doesn't offer a subscription pause feature. If you want to take a break, you cancel and resubscribe whenever you're ready. Your watch history and list stay saved on your account, so you won't lose your place.
The steps are the same as canceling a paid subscription. Log in at crunchyroll.com, go to Settings, open Account Settings, and cancel the membership before the trial period ends. Cancel at least a day before the trial expires to be safe; the exact cutoff time can vary.
Sofia covers streaming services, free trials, and getting the most out of what you pay for. She tracks trial lengths, price hikes, and cancellation quirks so readers don't get caught by a surprise renewal.
