Help and support

Your subscription

The free trial. Your first subscription starts with 7 days free. Checkout asks for your card, and nothing is charged until the trial ends; cancel before then and you pay nothing. A new account gets a free week of Less Boring instead, with no card: subscribe during it and your first charge comes when it ends. One trial per account: a later subscription starts paid. When the trial ends, you’re charged for the plan you chose: $2.99, then again every month, or $29.99, then again every year, with any tax where you live added to the price or included in it. It renews automatically until you cancel.

Cancelling. Cancel online at any time on your account page, under Manage subscription. You keep Less Boring until the end of the period you’ve paid for, and you aren’t charged again. Manage subscription also changes your plan or card, and shows your receipts.

The yearly plan’s refund. On the yearly plan, cancel within 14 days of being charged for a year and we refund that charge in full, automatically, and Less Boring ends then. This happens once per account. Monthly plans and free trials aren’t refunded.

Paying. Payments are processed by Stripe, through Link, which acts as the merchant of record. Your card statement shows LINK.COM* BORING NEWS, and receipts come from Link. Questions about a charge can also go to Link’s support.

The full terms are on the Terms page.

Your account

Sign in on your account page with your email address, and we email you a 6-digit code to type in. New to Boring? The same code makes your free account. Reading today’s edition never needs one.

Using the app? Sign in there with the same address. If you made your account on the website, choose Forgot password in the app to set a password.

Your data. To download everything Boring keeps about you, or to delete your account and all of it, use Your data on your account page, or Settings → Account in the app. The Your data link at the bottom of every daily and weekly email has a copy emailed to you, or deletes everything kept about that address.

The emails

Boring by email is free, every morning or Saturdays only: sign up on the front page. At the bottom of every daily and weekly email are a link to switch (Switch to Saturdays only in the daily email, Switch to every morning in the weekly one) and Unsubscribe.

Signed in to the app, Settings → Email shows which email your address gets, and switches or unsubscribes in a tap or two.

Report a problem or suggest an idea

Tell us what’s wrong, or what you’d like, with the feedback form. It’s open to everyone who signed up for Boring: every email has a feedback link at the bottom, or enter the address you signed up with and we’ll email you one. What you send is read by the team only. In the app, signed in, it’s Settings → Send feedback.

Found a mistake in a story? Use Tell us what you think at the bottom of its page. Every correction we make is listed on Corrections, dated and with its sources.

Ideas and bug reports can also go on the community board, where other readers can vote for them. Posting needs a free account, and the team reads each post before it appears.

Contact us

For anything else, email us at boringnews.hello@gmail.com.