To cancel a vidIQ subscription, you have to cancel through whoever is actually billing you: vidIQ directly if you signed up on the website with a card or PayPal, Apple if you subscribed on an iPhone or iPad, or Google if you subscribed on an Android device. Using the wrong path is the single most common reason people believe they canceled and keep seeing charges.
Check Your Statement First
Before clicking any cancel button, look at a recent bank or credit card statement and find the merchant name on the vidIQ charge. A charge from Apple means you’re billed through the App Store. A charge from Google means Google Play. A charge from vidIQ or its payment processor means you subscribed on the website. If you used PayPal, open your PayPal automatic payments and look for a vidIQ billing agreement.
vidIQ accepts credit and debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, JCB, and Diners Club), Google Pay, Apple Pay, and subscriptions through the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.1vidIQ Help Center. Which Payment Methods Do You Support Canceling inside the vidIQ app does nothing to stop App Store or Google Play billing, because those platforms control the payment relationship. Get the billing source right and the rest is a few clicks.
Cancel on the vidIQ Website
Use this method if you subscribed with a credit card, debit card, or PayPal directly through vidiq.com. Log into your account, click your profile avatar to open account settings, select Manage Plan, and click Cancel Subscription at the bottom of the page.2vidIQ Support. How to Cancel My Paid vidIQ Subscription A short downgrade wizard runs through a few prompts and may offer reasons to stay or a discount. Keep clicking through until you reach the final confirmation.
Your paid features stay active until the end of the billing cycle you already paid for.2vidIQ Support. How to Cancel My Paid vidIQ Subscription After that date, the account drops to the free tier. Your account, channel data, and settings stay in place; you simply lose the premium tools.
Cancel Through the Apple App Store
If Apple is the merchant on your statement, cancel in iOS. Open Settings, tap your name at the top, tap Subscriptions, find vidIQ in the list, tap it, and select Cancel Subscription. Confirm when prompted. Your access continues until the current period expires.
Uninstalling the vidIQ app or canceling inside the app will not stop Apple from charging you. The cancellation has to happen in Apple’s subscription settings.
Cancel Through Google Play
On Android, open the Google Play Store app, go to your subscriptions, select vidIQ, and tap Cancel subscription, then confirm. You can also reach the same screen through the device Settings app: tap Google, then your name, then Manage your Google Account, then Payments & subscriptions, then Manage subscriptions.3Google Play Help. Cancel, Pause, or Change a Subscription on Google Play
Same rule as Apple: deleting the app from your phone does not cancel the subscription. Google keeps billing until you cancel through Google Play.
Cancel a PayPal Billing Agreement
If you paid through PayPal, the main cancellation path is still the vidIQ website steps above. As a backup, you can also revoke vidIQ’s permission to charge your PayPal account directly. Log into PayPal, go to Settings, click Payments, and select Subscriptions and saved businesses (sometimes labeled Automatic Payments). Find vidIQ and cancel the agreement.4PayPal. What Is an Automatic Payment and How Do I Update or Cancel One
Revoking the PayPal agreement cuts the payment off at the source. It’s worth doing after you cancel through vidIQ as an extra layer of certainty.
Will You Get a Refund
No. vidIQ does not offer refunds or credits for unused days inside an existing billing period.5vidIQ. Why Was I Charged Without Notification When you cancel, your paid features stay active through the end of the cycle you already paid for, but no money comes back for the remaining days. This applies whether you cancel one day or 29 days in.
vidIQ’s paid plans renew automatically each billing cycle at the full price shown during checkout.5vidIQ. Why Was I Charged Without Notification vidIQ states that the full renewal price is disclosed on the checkout page, but it does not appear to send a reminder email before a promotional trial converts to a paid plan. If you’re on a trial, set your own calendar reminder a day or two before it ends.
Confirm the Cancellation Went Through
Look for a confirmation email from vidIQ or the app store you used. Log back into your vidIQ account and check the plan status in account settings; it should show the subscription set to expire rather than renew. Note the date your access ends and watch your statements through the next full billing cycle to confirm no new charge posts.
If an unexpected charge appears after you’ve canceled, contact vidIQ support through the help center. For App Store or Google Play subscriptions, you may need to dispute the charge with Apple or Google instead, since vidIQ does not control those billing systems.6vidIQ Help Center. How to Update My Card Information
Two Loose Ends Worth Tying Up
Canceling a subscription does not disconnect vidIQ from your YouTube channel. The API permission you granted when you first linked the channel stays active in your Google account until you remove it manually. Open your Google account security settings, find Third-party apps with account access, select vidIQ, and choose Remove access. This does not affect your YouTube channel or videos; it only stops vidIQ from reading your channel data going forward.
If you also want to delete your vidIQ account entirely, note that deletion is currently only available through the vidIQ mobile app, not the website, and deletion is permanent.7vidIQ Help Center. How to Delete My vidIQ Account Deleting the account does not cancel an active paid subscription, so cancel first, confirm the cancellation, and only then delete. People who do it in the wrong order end up paying for a service attached to an account they can no longer log into.