How to Cancel an Audible Subscription
If you’re looking for how to cancel an Audible membership, you’re in the right place!
Whether you signed up for a free trial and don’t want to continue once the free trial is over or you’re just looking to cut down on costs, here’s how to quickly and easily cancel your Audible subscription.
But first, a few things to know about canceling Audible:
- Make sure you spend any unused credits before you cancel. Anything you’ve bought with Audible credits is yours forever once you’ve bought it, even after you cancel, but if you cancel with unspent credits, those will disappear and they’re wasted. If you need some suggestions for how to spend your credits, here are some of my favorite audiobooks for adults and favorite audiobooks for kids.
- You generally cannot cancel your Audible subscription in the app. You’ll need to go to the Audible website to do it (which you can do on your phone or computer – you’ll just need to be in a browser, rather than the app).
- Virtually always, Audible will offer you some sort of deal to keep from canceling. I don’t know the inner workings of the Audible algorithm, so I can’t tell you what they’ll offer you, but it might be a free month, it might be a few months of a discounted rate or it might be a year of Audible for a flat rate that’s lower than your monthly rate. It may be worth it to you to stay on with a discount, so know that it’s likely that will be offered to you!
- Your Audible subscription will continue until the end of your billing cycle. So if you go to cancel on the 4th of the month and your billing date is the 12th, you’ll still have 7 days of access until it ends on the 11th (and it’ll show you when your last date of use is on your account).
With those things out of the way, here are the step-by-step directions for how to cancel an Audible subscription on a computer (if you’d like to do it on your phone, see below for directions for canceling Audible there).
How to cancel an Audible subscription on a computer
Go to Audible.com
At the top of the page, it’ll say “Hi, [your name]” – click that and choose “Account Details.”
Now choose “Cancel Membership.”
It’s going to make you “Continue to cancel” usually for a few screens and this is where it will generally offer you a deal to stay. If you don’t want to accept, continue on pressing “cancel” until it’s complete. Voila!
If you want to cancel your Audible subscription on your phone:
Open Audible.com in your browser and then click the three horizontal bars on the left top corner. It’ll say your name at the top with an arrow pointing right – click that.
Click “Membership Details” and then scroll down until you see “Cancel Membership.”
Like above, you’ll need to scroll to the bottom of the page and choose “Continue to cancel” and then it’ll probably try to get you to stay several times. You can accept their offer or you can continue until it’s canceled.
All done!
Any other questions about how to cancel an Audible membership? I’m happy to help troubleshoot – leave your questions in the comments!
Hi thanks for this, I don’t have a cancel my membership option, just pause membership! Have you come across this before?
my guess is that you’re in the app, not on the website.
I’m on the website not the app, and like the OP, all I get is “pause membership” too with no option to cancel
Just contact customer service and they can cancel it for you!
All done – thank you
Me too 😡
Mine is exactly the same 😡 only a pause membership option. Very annoying
If you take the deal, does this mean you can’t cancel for that month? For example, they are offering me one extra credit. If I take that but still decide to cancel after using it, will I be able to or do I have to wait till next month?
I’m not sure!
Cancel anything to do with an audible subscription. I have not signed up for any such subscription.
Also refund me for monies taken from my account
Note that this is a blog post about Audible – I’m not associated with Audible or have anything to do with subscriptions or memberships or fees.
Thank you for this detailed guide! I always found the Audible cancellation process a bit confusing, but your step-by-step instructions made it so much easier. I appreciate the extra tips you included about what happens to credits and downloaded content. Very helpful!
My audible membership was canceled over a year ago yet I continue to have $14,95 withdrawn automatically each month. Do you have suggestions?