How to cancel your Audible free trial before it charges you
✓ Verified June 2026 · ~5 min read
Audible's 30-day trial is easy to forget and deliberately awkward to cancel — you can't do it in the app. Here's how to cancel in time, and the two things almost nobody tells you.
The short version
Audible's free trial auto-renews into a paid membership when the 30 days end — around $14.95/month for Premium Plus. Cancel before the trial ends and you're charged nothing. The catch that trips people up: you cannot cancel in the Audible app. You have to use a browser. Cancel at least 24 hours early — people who cut it to the last few hours have still been billed.
The two things nobody tells you
1. The app has no cancel button — by design.
You can listen in the app, but you cannot cancel in it, on iPhone or Android. Deleting the app does not cancel anything — you'll keep getting charged. You must cancel through the Audible website in a browser (mobile browser works fine — just not the app).
2. You keep your audiobooks forever.
A lot of people don't cancel because they think they'll lose the book they got with their free credit. You won't. Any title you got during the trial stays in your library permanently, even after you cancel. So if you used your free credit on a book — claim it, then cancel with nothing to lose.
How to cancel (browser — the only reliable way)
- Open audible.com in any web browser (desktop or mobile browser — not the app) and sign in with your Amazon account.
- Hover over "Hi, [Your Name]" in the top-right and click Account Details.
- On the Account Details page, find the Cancel membership link — it's often in small text under your plan details.
- Click Cancel membership. Audible will throw several retention screens at you — offers to pause, discounts, free credits. Click "No thanks, continue cancelling" on each one.
- Pick a cancellation reason from the dropdown and continue to the end.
- Confirm your membership status shows "Cancelled" with an end date, and check your email for a confirmation. If it doesn't say cancelled, it didn't go through — repeat.
If you cancelled before the trial ended, you won't be charged, and you keep full access until the trial date arrives.
If you subscribed through the App Store or Google Play
If you started Audible through Apple or Google rather than Audible/Amazon directly, cancel through the store instead:
- iPhone/iPad: Settings → tap your name → Subscriptions → Audible → Cancel.
- Google Play: Play Store → Profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions → Audible → Cancel.
If your trial already converted and you got charged
Cancel right away to stop future billing, then contact Audible support to ask about a refund of the most recent charge — by phone at 1-888-283-5051 or via chat on the website. They can also process the cancellation for you if you're stuck. Note that cancelling stops billing but doesn't delete your account or remove purchased audiobooks — those stay.
The real problem: it's not the steps, it's remembering
Cancelling Audible isn't hard — it's hidden, multi-step, and lands on a date 30 days out that you've completely forgotten by the time it arrives. The retention screens and the app-can't-cancel trap are friction by design, but the thing that actually costs you money is simply not being reminded in time.
That's exactly what we built Renewl for. Add the trial the day you start it, and Renewl reminds you before the 30 days are up — a day or two early, at a lead time you choose — and shows you these cancel steps right when you need them. 100% on your phone: no account, no bank linking, nothing leaves your device. Join the early-access list →