WebUser – 21 August 2019

Share Spotify with your kids and they can

pay you back when they’re older

This happy coupl e just saved £39.50 each

on an Amazon Prime subs cription

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Share subscriptionswith

friends and family

I

f you and your partner, chil dren ,

lodger or anyone else in your

household subscribe to the same

services, it makes financial sense to

share your accounts an d split the co st.

Many online services offer dedicated

plans for this purpose, which give each

person a separate account within the

main one, so they can buy, stream and

download whatever they want without

the other users knowing. Here are three

of the best-value shared plans.

SPOTIFY

Spotify’s Premiumfor Familyplan

gives you anduptofiveother people

livingatyouraddress unlimited access

toits music-streaming service for £14.99

per month. Whenyou considerthatsix

separatePremiumaccountscost

£59.94, that’s a real bargain andcould

reduceyourmonthlysubscription to

£2. 50. Anyonewho already usesSpotify

can transferall their saved music,

playlists andrecommendationstotheir

Familyaccount. AppleMusic offersa

similar Familysubscription for the same

price (bit.ly/apple482).

Spotifyis currentlytesting ashared

planfor couples, PremiumDuo,in

several countries including Ireland, but

hasn’t confirmedwhenthiswill be

comingtothe UK.

AMAZONPRIME

At£79 per year, anAmazon Prime

subscription isn’t cheap,sowhy not split

yourswith yournearestand dearest?

Set upanAmazon Household (bit.ly/

household482) andyou can share Prime

benefitsincluding next-daydelivery,

Prime Videostreaming andPrime

Reading (formerlyKindleUnlimited)

with one other adult, aswell asebooks,

appsandgames you download. Your

Householdcan includeuptofour

children, but they’re (wisely) prevented

frombuyinganything.

Amazon alsooffersa FamilyPlanfor

its Music Unlimited service (bit.ly/

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music4 82 ), which letsyou dividethe

hefty £14.99-per-month costbetween

six familymembers.

NETFLIX

AlthoughNetflix doesn’t havean

official sharedplan, it letsyou addupto

fiveseparateprofilesto youraccount,

sofamilymembers andfriends can have

their own personalised watch lists

andrecommendations, andsplit the

monthlysubscription cost. Depending

onyour plan, you can streamTVshows

andfilms tomore thanone device. With

the Standard option(£8.99per month),

you can watch ontwo devices atonce,

while the Premiumplan(£11.99 per

month) letsyou streamtofourdifferent

screens simultaneously.Notethatall

users log inusing the mainaccount

holder’s details, but can thenchoose

their own profile.

Similarly,NowTVletsyou addsix

devices to youraccount andwatch

ontwo atthe sametime.

Track all your subscriptions

in one place

W

hen you subs cribe to lots of

online services, it’s easy to lose

track of how much you’re paying and

when. You may even forg et you’re still

subs cribingto a particular service until

the money is taken fromyour bank

account. Fortunately, this is now such

a co mmon problem that there are

plenty of tools availableto help you

manageyour subs cription costs,

although many are US-only.

Slash the cos

of online

subscriptions