Hands-on: BillGuard for iPhone watches your credit card so you don't have to
BillGuard began life as a a Web app for monitoring your credit cards. You grant the service access to your credit card accounts, and it monitors them for rogue or unwanted charges. And now, there’s a BillGuard iPhone app, too.
The company says that so-called grey charges are often legal, but they’re still unwanted. Most of these unwanted charges are hard-to-notice small amounts on your bills, BillGuard says, in the $12 to $18 range.
BillGuard can show you all of your recent charges.
BillGuard looks for “zombie” subscriptions, recurring memberships, unwanted auto-renewals, slowly increasing monthly fees and the like, and warns you when such charges come up—complete with push notifications with the app.
When you first use the BillGuard app, you’re prompted to set a passcode. That’s separate from your iOS-wide passcode, and prevents snoops from browsing your latest purchases.
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