How-to · 5 min read
How to Cancel a GoodShort Subscription
GoodShort has no cancel button, and it is not hiding one. The subscription is held by Apple or Google, and that is the only place it can be ended.
Published 25 August 2026
The short answer
On an iPhone, open Settings, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, tap GoodShort, then tap Cancel Subscription. On Android, open Google Play, tap your profile icon, tap Payments & subscriptions, tap Subscriptions, select GoodShort and tap Cancel subscription. A minute either way.
Why there is no cancel button in the app
If you subscribed through the App Store or Google Play, GoodShort never held your subscription. Apple or Google took the payment, issued the receipt, and owns the cancel button. You can search GoodShort's settings as long as you like; nothing is hidden, because nothing was ever there. Every app sold through the stores works this way.
GoodShort is published by SINGAPORE NEW READING TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. and is free to download — which is the part that catches people out. Nothing about installing it looks like signing up for a recurring charge, because at that point it isn't one.
The steps in full
On an iPhone or iPad
- Open the Settings app.
- Tap your name at the top of the screen.
- Tap Subscriptions.
- Tap GoodShort.
- Tap Cancel Subscription. You may need to scroll down to find it.
If there is no Cancel button, and instead you see an expiry message in red text, the subscription is already cancelled and will simply run out on the date shown.
On Android
- Open the Google Play app.
- Tap your profile icon in the top right.
- Tap Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions.
- Select GoodShort.
- Tap Cancel subscription and follow the prompts.
Google keeps your access running for the time you have already paid for, so cancelling on day one of a billing period does not cut you off on day one.
If you subscribed on GoodShort's website
A subscription bought directly on the web with a card or PayPal never touches either app store, so neither store can cancel it. Sign in to your account on their site and cancel there, or contact their support and ask them to stop the renewal. Keep the reply.
Confirm it actually worked
Do not skip this. Return to the same subscriptions screen. A cancelled subscription shows an expiry date rather than a renewal date — wording like "expires on" rather than "renews on". If it still says it renews, the cancellation did not go through, and you should repeat it.
Cancelled, but still being charged
This is the most common follow-up, and it almost always has the same cause: the subscription is not where you are looking for it. Work through these in order.
- You subscribed on a different platform. If you first subscribed on an iPhone and later installed GoodShort on Android, the charge still lives in Apple’s system. Cancelling in Google Play does nothing to it, and vice versa.
- You are signed in to a different account. A second Apple Account or Google account — a work one, an old one, a family member’s — holds the subscription. The charge follows the account that bought it, not the one you are using now.
- You subscribed on the web. If you paid through GoodShort’s own website with a card or PayPal, neither app store has any record of it. Cancel from your account page on their site, or contact their support directly.
- You deleted the app and assumed that cancelled it. It does not. Deleting an app removes the app; the subscription keeps billing until it is cancelled at the store.
To find a mystery charge, search your email for the app name — both stores email a receipt for every renewal, and the receipt names the account it was billed to.
The one that catches GoodShort users specifically: coins are not a subscription
GoodShort sells two different things, and cancelling only stops one of them.
| Coins | VIP / subscription | |
|---|---|---|
| Charged | Once, per pack | Repeatedly, until cancelled |
| Buys you | Individual locked episodes | Access while it is active |
| Cancelling stops it | No — nothing recurring to stop | Yes |
So if you cancel the subscription and keep unlocking episodes, you will keep seeing charges. Those are one-off coin purchases, working exactly as intended. Cancelling has not failed; it just never covered them.
Getting a refund for a charge you did not mean to make
Cancelling stops the next payment. It does not return the last one. Refunds are handled by the store, not by the app, and both treat them as discretionary rather than guaranteed:
- Apple: go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in, find the charge and choose Request a refund.
- Google: request it from your Google Play order history. Google states that past subscription charges generally cannot be refunded, with exceptions set out in its refund policy.
An accidental renewal you report quickly, and a charge on a subscription you genuinely never used, are the two cases most likely to succeed. Say plainly which one applies.
Before you go: check what you were paying
Worth two minutes while you are in the subscriptions screen. GoodShort's App Store listing shows tiers named Weekly VIP at $5.99, $9.99 and $19.99, a Weekly subscription at $19.99, and coin packs of 500 ($4.99), 1,000 ($9.99), 1,500 ($14.99), 2,000 ($19.99) and 2,500 ($24.99) — checked 25 August 2026.
Read that list twice, because it is stranger than it looks. Three different prices share the same "Weekly VIP" name. Whichever one you were placed on was not a choice you made in any meaningful sense, and no article — including this one — can tell you which it was. Your subscription screen can.
If the tier you find is one of the weekly ones, do the annual arithmetic before deciding whether to resubscribe. A $19.99 weekly charge is a little over $1,000 a year, which is not the shape most people have in mind when they subscribe to a phone app.
Leaving more than one of these? We have the same guide for DramaBox and ReelShort, and a wider comparison of what the major apps actually cost.