Manage Subscription

Everything about your plan lives in Settings → Account. What you can change there depends on where you subscribed.

Where you subscribed decides where you manage it

• On the web — the billing portal (powered by Stripe) handles plan changes, payment, and cancellation. Everything below applies to you.
• In the iPhone or Android app — Apple or Google owns that subscription. Becoming can read it, but can’t change or cancel it, and the billing portal can’t either. Manage it in your device’s own settings: App Store or Google Play.

Not sure which you have? If you never entered a card on the Becoming website, you subscribed through a store.

Open the Billing Portal

1. Go to Settings → Account.
2. Open the billing portal from your subscription section.
3. Make your change there — updates apply to your Becoming account automatically.

Change Your Plan

Paid subscribers can move between The Library and The Academy at any time from the billing portal.

• Upgrade (Library → Academy) unlocks Themes, daily Practices, and automatic AI tagging right away.
• Downgrade (Academy → Library) keeps your library and Daily Review. Academy-only features become unavailable, but your highlights, notes, and past reflections stay put.

Either way, your monthly AI credit allowance becomes the new plan’s for the rest of that month — what you’ve already used this month still counts against it, so a plan change isn’t a fresh allowance. Downgrade after spending more than The Library’s 150 and you’ll have no credits left until the 1st.

Note

On the free Library trial (no card on file), the billing portal isn’t available yet — start a paid plan from checkout first. The portal appears once you have an active paid subscription.

Not sure which to pick? Compare them in Plans & Billing.

Update Your Payment Method

In the billing portal, update your card or billing details. This is also where you’ll go if a payment doesn’t go through.

Cancel

Cancel anytime from the billing portal. You keep full access until the end of your current billing period — nothing is cut off mid-cycle. After that, your plan ends and you won’t be charged again. Your library stays with your account.

App Store and Google Play subscriptions

A subscription can only be cancelled where it was bought, so a store subscription has to be cancelled on your device — cancelling in Becoming isn’t possible. Deleting your Becoming account cancels a Google Play subscription, but never an App Store one.

• iPhone or iPad — Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Becoming → Cancel Subscription.
• Android — Play Store → profile icon → Payments and subscriptions → Subscriptions → Becoming → Cancel subscription.

The same goes for changing plans and updating your payment method: the store handles both.

Tip

Canceling is not the same as deleting your account. Cancel to stop billing while keeping your data — and to keep the access you’ve already paid for, which deleting gives up.

Delete Your Account

If you want to remove everything, open Settings → Account and choose to delete your account. Download your highlights first — Export Your Highlights gives you every highlight, note and tag as a CSV or as Markdown files, and once the account is gone there is nothing left to export.

Caution

Deleting your account is permanent. Your sources, highlights, notes, Themes, and reflections are removed and cannot be recovered.

Deleting also ends a paid web plan immediately, unlike cancelling: your subscription is cancelled the moment you confirm, with no refund or credit for the rest of the period you’ve already paid for. If you want those days, cancel now and delete once the period has run out.

For the full picture — including how to ask us to delete it if you can’t sign in, and why an App Store subscription must be canceled separately — see Delete Your Account.

See Also

• Plans & Billing — what each tier includes
• Delete Your Account — what deletion removes and what we keep