Many subscriptions: search, tags, bulk changes
Tools for when the list gets long. Everything here is also an operation for AI agents (MCP and the built-in assistant), so you can ask for it in words.
Search and filters
Section titled “Search and filters”The search box on Subscriptions looks in the name, the notes, the account, the category and the tags. Every word must match, so work figma finds Figma tagged work. It keeps the other filters (status, category, payment method, tag), and all of them live in the address, so a reload or a shared link shows the same list.
Agents use list_subscriptions with query (the same search) and tag.
A tag is a free label: work, family, to review, a client’s name. A subscription can have many; a category stays one per subscription, so totals by category never count anything twice.
- Add them in the form: type and press Enter or a comma. Tags you already use are suggested.
- See them as small labels in the list and on the subscription page; filter the list by one.
- Rename or delete one everywhere in Settings → General → Tags. Renaming to a tag that already exists merges the two. Both can be undone from the message that appears, or from Activity.
- In chat (Telegram and Slack): open a subscription, ✏️ Edit → 🔖 Tags, and type them separated by commas.
-removes them all. - Case does not matter (Work and work are the same tag). Commas and semicolons are not allowed in a tag: they separate tags in CSV files and in chat. At most 20 tags of 40 characters each.
Tags travel in the JSON and CSV exports (column tags, separated by commas) and come back in on import.
Duplicate
Section titled “Duplicate”Duplicate on a subscription’s page opens the form filled in with the same terms and the name “… (copy)”. Change what differs and save: it is a new subscription with no charges and no history.
Change many at once
Section titled “Change many at once”Tick subscriptions in the list (the box in the header ticks every one shown). A bar appears with Category, Payment method, Tags, Pause, Resume, Cancel and Delete.
Each opens a preview first: what changes for each one, and which ones are already as asked. Nothing is saved until you press the button. The change is all or nothing, each subscription gets its own entry in Activity, and the Undo in the message that follows reverts the whole change at once.
Cancelling or deleting here only stops Exhale tracking them: cancel them with the provider too.
Agents use bulk_update_subscriptions (always with dryRun first) and pass the auditIds it returns to undo to revert it.
“Also offered at”: what switching saves
Section titled ““Also offered at”: what switching saves”Many services sell the same plan monthly and yearly. In the form, under More details → Also offered at, write the other price and whether it is per month or per year. Only then Exhale shows:
- on the subscription page, how much a year switching would save (or how much more it would cost);
- in Check-up and Insights, the subscriptions where the other price is cheaper, with the total.
Exhale never guesses prices: without a price you wrote, there is no hint. It is in the exports as other price and other price per.