You can now subscribe to bujusjujus without leaving the app. Open it on iPhone or Android, pick monthly or yearly, confirm with your Apple Account or Google Play, and your alerts start the second the purchase clears. No trip to the website, no waiting on an email to sign in.
It also costs more than buying on our website. $9.99/month in the apps, $7.99/month at bujusjujus.com.
Over a year that's $24. We'd rather put that number in front of you than have you find it on a statement in March.
TL;DR:
- In-app subscriptions are live on both stores. Buy inside the iPhone or Android app and you're running in about thirty seconds.
- In-app costs $9.99/mo or $59.99/yr. The website costs $7.99/mo or $47.94/yr.
- The gap is the store's cut. Apple and Google each take 15% of every subscription sold inside an app.
- Nothing changes if you already subscribe. Your price is your price. There is no migration and no action to take.
- Buy wherever you like. Both routes get you the identical service.
Why it costs more in the app
Apple and Google take 15% of every subscription bought inside an app. That's the whole explanation. It isn't a surcharge we invented, and it isn't a premium tier — it's the same product, sold through a channel that bills a commission.
We could have absorbed it and charged $7.99 everywhere. Plenty of services do. We didn't, because absorbing it quietly means the website price eventually rises to cover the apps, and then everyone pays for a convenience only some people use.
So the price you see is the price of the door you walked through:
| Website | In the apps | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $7.99 | $9.99 |
| Yearly | $47.94 | $59.99 |
| A year of monthly | $95.88 | $119.88 |
If $24 a year is worth not having to open a browser, buy in the app — genuinely, no hard feelings, it's a real convenience and some people would rather never hand a card to a small company they just met. If it isn't, subscribe at bujusjujus.com and sign into the app afterward. Same alerts, same retailers, same everything. The app doesn't know or care which way you paid.
What we're not going to tell you
That the in-app price is "the same after fees." It isn't, quite.
The $9.99 was set when our website price was $8.99, and at that point the two came out close to even after Apple's cut, Google's cut, and card processing. We've since dropped the website to $7.99 and haven't moved the store prices to match. So right now, an in-app subscription is worth modestly more to us than a website one.
That's an honest description of a gap we let drift, not a strategy. We're saying it because the alternative is writing "it nets out the same!" in a blog post, which is the kind of claim a reader can check with a calculator — and if you're going to check our arithmetic, we'd rather you find it already admitted than caught.
How to subscribe in the app
- Open bujusjujus on iPhone or Android. On the sign-in screen, tap Subscribe.
- Pick Monthly or Yearly.
- Confirm with your Apple Account or Google Play — Face ID, fingerprint, whatever your phone uses.
- You're in. Alerts start immediately.
We still email your sign-in details, because the same account works in the web app on any browser or desktop. One subscription, every device.
Reinstalled the app, or switched phones? Tap Restore purchases — your subscription comes back without paying twice.
Managing and cancelling
This part differs by store, and the difference is not our choice:
- Google Play — manage or cancel in Play, or from Settings in the app. Deleting your bujusjujus account also cancels the Play subscription, so billing stops with it.
- Apple — manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. We can't cancel an Apple subscription for you; Apple doesn't permit it. Deleting your bujusjujus account stops the service but does not stop Apple's billing — turn off auto-renew yourself, or you'll keep paying for an account that no longer exists.
That last line is the one people get burned by, on every app, not just ours. Turn off auto-renew first, then delete.
- Website (Square) — email us or cancel from your account settings. Alerts run to the end of the period you already paid for.
Already subscribed?
Nothing changes. You don't need to re-subscribe in the app, and you shouldn't — you'd be paying twice for one account. Just sign in.
Your existing rate is locked to how you signed up. We're not migrating anyone, and we're not going to email you about switching.
The short version
In-app subscriptions exist now because "go to a website, pay, wait for an email, come back, sign in" is four steps too many for someone who just wants their phone to buzz when a booster box hits retail price.
They cost $2 more a month because Apple and Google take 15%.
The website is cheaper. We just told you so, in a post on our own website, which is either bad business or the entire reason people trust us. We think it's the second one.
Ready either way? Start getting alerts — or open the app you already have and tap Subscribe.