How to Cancel a GoodShort Subscription (and Check What It Was Costing You)

GoodShort sells four different things called Weekly VIP. Apple’s US listing, read on 23 August 2026, prices them at $5.99, $9.99 and $19.99 — with $19.99 appearing twice — and adds a fifth recurring entry labelled Weekly subscription, also at $19.99. Apple publishes the price and the developer’s label. It does not say what any of them unlocks, neither does GoodShort, and we have not verified any tier inside the app.

So before you can cancel one, you have to find which one has your card. That entry is not inside the app.

Whoever charged you is the only one who can stop

Three possible billers, no overlap:

Where you subscribed	Who holds the mandate	Where the cancel control lives
iPhone, iPad or Mac	Apple	Subscriptions, inside your Apple Account settings
Android, via Google Play	Google	Payments & subscriptions, inside the Play Store
A website, card or wallet	That page’s payment processor	That site’s own billing page

Deleting GoodShort changes none of this. Nor does deleting your in-app account, signing out, or getting a new phone. The agreement lives with the store, and it will keep renewing against an app that is no longer installed.

Working out which store it is

Open both lists and look — Apple’s and Google’s. That takes a minute and it cannot mislead you, which is more than can be said for reasoning about it from memory.

Failing that, search your email for GoodShort receipts and look at who sent them. The company that emailed the receipt is the company taking the money.

We are not going to tell you how a GoodShort charge is worded on a bank statement. We have not verified any billing descriptor for it, and a wrong guess there gets people cancelling something else entirely.

If GoodShort turns up in neither list, do not conclude the billing has stopped. The usual answer is that you are looking at the wrong account — a second Google account on the same phone, an older Apple Account, or somebody else in the household who installed it.

Apple

1. Open Settings.
2. Tap your name to open your Apple Account.
3. Open Subscriptions.
4. Find the GoodShort entry — and if more than one appears, check each, because a lapsed one and a live one look much the same at a glance.
5. Use the cancel control on the one still renewing.

That is the route, not a transcript. Apple rewords these screens between releases and we have not re-checked them against the build on your device. None of it needs the app installed.

Google Play

1. Open the Play Store.
2. Open the account menu.
3. Go to Payments & subscriptions, then the subscriptions list.
4. Open the GoodShort entry.
5. Cancel, and follow the confirmations to the end.

If that list is empty, check whether a second Google account is signed in on the phone before deciding nothing is being charged.

Bought on a website

No single path exists, because the billing belongs to whichever processor that page used. Sign in there and look under account, billing, membership or subscription.

If a wallet such as PayPal sat in the middle, the merchant’s own page is still the route we will vouch for. Wallets do have their own recurring-payment controls, but we have not opened those screens for this merchant and will not describe menus we have not used.

Cancelling the card is not a substitute. It removes a payment method; the agreement survives it, and we have no verified data on what any of these billers do when a charge fails.

What cancelling does and does not settle

It stops the next renewal. It does not refund the period already paid, it does not end access today, and it is not itself a refund request.

Your coin balance is untouched. A coin top-up is a single purchase rather than a plan — nothing recurring to cancel, and nothing lost by cancelling a subscription.

To confirm it took, reopen the same entry and check that it now describes an ending rather than a renewal. We are not quoting the exact wording, which changes between releases; what matters is that “renews” no longer applies to you.

Do it the day you decide, not the day the charge falls due. We have no verified figure for how late a cancellation still catches the next charge on either store, and only the store billing you can answer that.

Refunds go to the store, not to GoodShort

Money already taken is a separate request, aimed at whoever took it — Apple through its purchase-support channel, Google through Play’s purchase support, a web merchant through its own desk. Ask about the individual charge rather than about the app.

We have not verified either store’s refund criteria, so we are not going to estimate your chances.

No in-app screenshots here, on purpose

We have not opened those screens. A screengrab one release out of date sends somebody down a dead end while the renewal date arrives, which is worse than pointing them at the store list in the first place. The store paths above are what actually stops the money, and we can give you those without inventing a screen we have never seen.

The unusual thing about cancelling this one

Most of these apps make it impossible to work out what you were paying. GoodShort is the exception, and it is worth two minutes on your way out.

Apple’s listing publishes GoodShort’s coin counts alongside its prices — 500 coins for $4.99, 1,000 for $9.99, 1,500 for $14.99, 2,000 for $19.99, 2,500 for $24.99. Every one of those lands within a hundredth of a cent of one cent a coin, and buying the largest tier gets you no discount over the smallest. Among the six apps we track, GoodShort is the only one where that figure comes from Apple rather than from our arithmetic; for the rest, Apple gives a dollar price and no coin count at all.

The other half of the sum — coins per episode — GoodShort does not publish either. On 25 August 2026 we collected 464 GoodShort reviews from Apple’s own review feed and extracted every cost figure by script:

What reviews report	Reports	Values seen
Coins to unlock one episode	5	50, 50, 50, 50, 70
Coins from watching one ad	4	4, 4, 4, 1
Ads available per day	5	5, 5, 5, 10, 10
Daily check-in bonus	1	30

At the middle of those columns an episode is about 50 cents, which is the joint-cheapest of the four apps we can compute. That is our arithmetic on reported figures, not a price GoodShort publishes, and five reports is a sketch rather than a measurement.

The free route is the number worth carrying away. Five ads at four coins, plus a thirty-coin check-in, is fifty coins in a day — and an episode costs fifty. A full day of ads buys exactly one episode. If the subscription felt expensive, that is what it was replacing.

We hold no catalogue for GoodShort, so we cannot tell you how long its typical series runs, and therefore cannot turn one-episode-a-day into a number of weeks. Nobody who has not counted can.

The short version

1. Open both store subscription lists and find which holds GoodShort.
2. If several GoodShort entries appear, identify the one still renewing — the labels will not separate them by price.
3. Cancel in the store. Not in the app, and not by deleting the app.
4. Reopen the entry and confirm it now shows an end date.
5. Do it the day you decide, not on the renewal date.
6. Want the current period back? Separate refund request, to the store that billed you.

Delete the app after the entry confirms it has stopped, not before.