Fubo Free Trial Charges: What 80 Reviews Show (2026)

A free trial is a promise with a deadline in it. You get some days, you decide, and if you say no before the deadline you pay nothing. In the 4,000 most recent US Google Play reviews for Fubo, 80 people describe that promise failing on the money side: they cancelled, or they tried to, and a charge arrived anyway.

Said I would get an email the day before my 7-day trial ran out. I got the email, but only hours before it charged me. Not to mention, I signed up on Sunday around noon and was charged Friday night at 11:50pm. Not 7 days at all.

Don't get it!!! they say you get a 7 day trial, and it is actually a 1 day trial! it's in the fine print! then they charge you $49.49!

Those two are not the same complaint. The first says the trial was shorter in practice than the calendar it was sold on. The second says it was sold as seven days and behaved like one. Both are the same underlying question, and it is the question this piece tries to answer with counts rather than adjectives.

What We Read

We pulled the 4,000 most recent US Google Play reviews for Fubo on 10 September 2026, along with the live store metadata. The listing shows 3.07 stars from 51,356 ratings on more than 10 million installs, at version 5.58.0, updated 4 September 2026. On the App Store the same app holds 4.49 from 111,152 ratings, so everything below describes what Android reviewers report and nothing else.

Because Fubo collects reviews more slowly than a game does, 4,000 of them reach back to December 2023. To keep the piece current we cut the corpus to the last twelve months, 10 September 2025 to 9 September 2026. That window holds 1,145 reviews, of which 905 were 1-3 stars and 523 were long enough to describe something at 100 characters or more. Every count below comes from those 523. Of them, 437, or 83.6%, are one star.

Two caveats before the numbers. First, these are shares of complaints, not shares of subscribers: 240 of the 1,145 were 4 or 5 stars and we did not read them. Second, we counted what people wrote. We did not open a Fubo account, start a trial or file a cancellation, so nothing here is a test of the product. It is a census of the complaints.

Quick Answer: Is Fubo's Free Trial the Main Complaint?

Money is the main complaint, and it is not close. A keyword screen for trial, cancel, charge or refund matches 275 of the 523 substantial negative reviews, 52.6%. For a live TV service, more than half of all detailed complaints are about billing rather than channels, streams or picture quality. The narrower group that mentions both cancelling and being charged is 80 reviews, 15.3%. We read all 80 individually and did not remove any: every one is a genuine billing dispute. Inside that group, 9 reviewers report a charge that landed before the advertised trial window closed, and 16 report cancelling during the trial and being charged anyway.

Where the Money Complaints Sit

Splitting the 523 by month shows this is not a spike attached to one bad week. It is the steady state.

Twelve months, and the billing share never drops below 36% or rises above 67%. The peaks sit in the autumn and January, which is when American football and the New Year sign-up wave land. That timing matters for the rest of the piece: the people writing these reviews mostly came for one season, or one game, and expected to leave.

1. The Trial That Ends Early

Nine reviewers report a charge that arrived before the trial they were sold had finished. What makes this group worth separating is that they do not say they forgot. They name the arithmetic.

Charged me before end of free trial. I never received email stating free trial was ending. email was not in spam folder. They charged me almost 8 hrs before free trial was to end.

You'll sign up for a 5-day"free trial" but it's actually 24 hours and they'll charge you for it immediately. Shady, trashy company.

ridiculous. I wanted to use the free trial they screwed me here the same day!

One reviewer gives the clock in both directions, the promised warning and the actual charge, which is why we opened the piece with it: signed up Sunday around noon, charged Friday at 11:50pm, on a trial sold as seven days.

The reason we are not calling this a single defect is that the numbers reviewers report do not agree with each other. Some describe a five day trial, some seven, some a month. Fubo runs different promotional lengths, and a reviewer recalling the wrong one is not evidence of anything. What survives that objection is the smaller set where the reviewer states both the length they signed up for and the day they were charged, and those are the ones quoted above.

2. Cancelling Inside the Trial Does Not Always Stop the Charge

This is the larger group. Sixteen reviewers say they cancelled during the trial and were charged regardless. Several of them cancelled within hours.

don't get fubo... they lie. I did the free trial and cancelled an hour later and they still charged me $49.

this app is terrible. I did the trial, then canceld the next day. I got a confirmation email about cancelation then they proceeded to charge my card $90 anyway. After fighting with them im now waiting 10 days to get my refund.

Fubo is trash!!! tried the free trial it was kind of garbage... was charged $124 cancelled the subscription immediately and was charged another $155 after cancellation...

The second one is the most useful of the three, because it removes the usual explanation. A confirmation email means the cancellation was recorded on Fubo's side. The charge came anyway.

There is also a version of this trap that has nothing to do with a failed cancellation, and it may be the most quietly effective thing in this corpus. Three reviewers describe being told that cancelling would end the trial immediately, which turns the decision into a choice between losing the days you were promised and staying exposed to the charge.

Do Not do free trial. Start your free trial. No commitment. Cancel anytime. This is a lie. I subscribe for trial and only used it for 1-2 days. Normally for free trial subscription I usually cancel same day so I don't forget to cancel but then this company says cancel will cancel trial and I won't be able to watch so I didn't cancel. A couple days later got charged $68.

I couldn't find a way to cancel through the app, and when canceling on the website they notified me that my trial would end immediately. This is done as a practice by companies that hope you forget about the trial, and just end up paying anyway.

The second reviewer is the one who went through with it and saw the notice on the website. Three reports is an anecdote, not a pattern, and we are labelling it as one. We include it because it explains a behaviour that shows up far more often than three times: people who knew the deadline, meant to cancel, and did not.

3. The Cancel Button Is Not in the App

Fourteen reviewers report that there was no way to cancel inside the Android app. A keyword screen returned 23; we read them and removed 9 that turned out to be about refunds, TV setup or pricing rather than a missing cancel path.

crooks!!! trial period cannot be canceled in the MY Account section because there is no tab. Then you get charged $79 .

After learning that I can't cancel actually whenever I want and you still get charged and you have to go to a website to cancel the subscription instead of doing it in the app

There is not any cancellation option, so I had to get a new bank card for the app to stop charging me.

That last one is the ending several reviewers describe: replacing the bank card because they could not find the off switch. One reviewer went the other way and reverse engineered the route, and their instructions are the single most practical thing anyone wrote in twelve months of complaints.

I just wanted my dad to watch the world cup for the season but I didn't realize I couldn't watch it on the plan I chose. Anyway, if you want to CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION, you have to go to log in on a browser. If you're on the app, open the terms of service and scroll down until you reach section 2. Term b. Free Trial. The link is provided there, then sign in and go through the menu options.

A cancellation link that lives inside clause 2(b) of the terms of service is not a hidden feature. It is a documented one. But a subscriber who has to read a legal document to find it is going to miss the deadline, and the reviews above are what missing the deadline costs.

Nine more reviewers say the reminder that would have saved them never arrived, or arrived too late to act on.

Their whole business is pushing 5 day free trials in hopes people will forget. And I can guarantee if you forget there is 0% chance you'd get a refund. It says "we'll remind you before you're charged" hahaha that may as well say "please don't set your own reminder we'll cover that part" it's very sketchy for them to even say that.

wished I'd read reviews first. wanted to watch an OU game signed up for a free trial. they said we'll send an email reminder about the trial period. The welpy reminder was when they tried to take money from my account.

4. Add-Ons and Plan Changes Nobody Signed Up For

A separate group, eight reviewers after we removed five false matches from a screen of thirteen, describes the bill changing without the subscriber changing anything. This is not about trials at all, and it affects people who stayed.

I saw that Fubo had put an add-on to my acc, they never notified or asked. They charged me $15.99 for 8 mnths.

Be cautious: my subscription was changed from an annual to a higher-cost monthly plan without my consent or clear notice. I only discovered this through a credit card charge, and was later told the change happened months earlier.

Eight reports out of 523 is a small cluster and we are not going to inflate it. It is here because it is the one complaint in this corpus that a long term subscriber should check for, and because a monthly bill that moves is harder to notice than a trial charge that lands once.

What Reviewers Say It Cost

Seventy one of the 523 name a dollar figure, and 22 of those sit inside the 80 review cancel and charge group. We read each of the 22 to make sure the amount was the reviewer's own charge rather than a price they were quoting, which is a real trap in review corpora.

The figures they name for a single unexpected charge run from $49 to $164, clustering between $60 and $107. Several name two charges rather than one: $124 followed by $155 after cancelling, $107 twice, and one reviewer charged $49 twice after contacting support. The highest single figure is $300 for a three month package a reviewer says they did not choose.

We are deliberately not printing Fubo's current advertised prices next to these. Plan pricing changes and promotional tiers vary, and a stale price table would be worse than none. What the numbers do show is the shape of the risk: a forgotten trial on this service does not cost the price of a cheap streaming month.

Step 1: Find Out Where Your Subscription Actually Lives

Before anything else, work out who is charging you. If you started the trial through the Google Play listing, the subscription sits in Google Play and you cancel it under Payments and subscriptions in the Play Store, where the renewal date is printed on the page. If you signed up on Fubo's own site or inside the app with a card, Google Play has no record of it and cancelling there does nothing. The reviewers in section 3 who could not find a cancel button are almost all in the second group. Check both before you assume you have cancelled.

Step 2: Cancel From a Browser, Not the App

For a subscription billed by Fubo directly, sign in on a desktop or mobile browser rather than the app, open your account settings and look for the subscription or plan section. One reviewer's route, quoted above, was to open the terms of service in the app and follow the link inside the free trial clause. If the cancellation page loops or refuses to load, try a second browser before concluding it is broken: one Spanish reviewer reports testing several browsers and operating systems before giving up.

Step 3: Cancel Early in the Day, Not on the Deadline

Nine reviewers here report a charge landing before the last day of their trial expired, in one case eight hours early and in another on day five of seven. Whatever the cause, the practical response is the same: do not aim for the final hours. Cancel a full day before the date you were given, and if the trial is short, cancel as soon as you have seen what you came to watch.

Step 4: Keep the Confirmation, and Check the Card Anyway

One reviewer in this corpus was charged after receiving a cancellation confirmation email, and another was charged twice after cancelling. Save the confirmation with its timestamp, then check your statement on the date the charge would have fallen. A confirmation email is your evidence, not your guarantee. If a charge appears after a confirmed cancellation, you are disputing a documented error rather than arguing about what you intended.

Step 5: If the Charge Has Already Landed, Pick the Right Counterparty

Where you complain depends on who took the money. A Google Play subscription has Google's own refund request flow with a short window, and that is the faster route when it applies. A card charge from Fubo goes to Fubo support first, and reviewers report waits of seven to ten days for a refund that was agreed. Do not open a chargeback and a support ticket at the same time, because a disputed charge usually freezes the merchant's ability to refund you directly and you can end up waiting longer for the same money.

The Same Complaint in Spanish

We repeated the pull across 19 Google Play storefronts. Five of them returned the identical review set we already had, a known duplication in Play's international feeds, and we dropped those by review ID rather than counting them twice. The remaining stores added 310 unique reviews, 71 of them substantial negatives, and 32 of the 71 are from 2026. Spanish is the largest non-English group at 45, and the complaint arrives unchanged.

Spanish

esta aplicación es una estafa, pague el primer mes y ya no segui renovarlo y no puedo dar de baja la suscripción y me sigue cobrando, pésimo servicio 😡.

Spanish

Pésima. No hay forma de cancelar. Entra en bucle y no da acceso a la página de cancelación. Probado en varios navegadores y sistemas operativos.

Spanish

Una vez aceptas la prueba gratis, ya después no te deja cancelar la suscripción porque aunque te da la instrucciones de donde hir a cancelar supuestamente, le verdad es que no la encuentras. Por eso cancele mi tarjeta antes del tiempo limite.

Spanish

mienten con decir que tiene. los partidos de la premier y te quieren cobrar 70 dolares al mes al mes, además luego no te facilitan cancelar la suscripción, realmente son unos ladrones que usan publicidad engañosa,

The second of those is the most specific technical claim anyone makes about the cancellation page in any language: it loops, and the reviewer tried several browsers and operating systems before deciding it was not their setup. The third describes the same ending as the English reviewer in section 3, cancelling the payment card because the subscription could not be cancelled.

What This Does Not Show

We measured Android only. Fubo holds 4.49 from 111,152 App Store ratings against 3.07 from 51,356 on Google Play. That gap is large, but iOS store ratings sit higher than Android ratings across almost every app we read, so we are not going to claim it proves anything about Apple's billing. We did not read a single iOS review.

We cannot see Fubo's side of any dispute. Every account here is one half of a conversation. Where a reviewer says they cancelled and were charged, we have their word for the cancellation. What we can say is that 80 people wrote the same shape of complaint in twelve months and that 437 of the 523 substantial complaints are one star.

Nine is a small number. The charged before the deadline group is the sharpest claim in this piece and also the smallest. We have not established that it happens to a measurable share of trials. We have established that nine reviewers described it in enough detail to rule out simple forgetfulness.

Absence of happy endings is not proof there are none. People whose cancellation worked have no reason to write a one star review. This corpus can tell you what goes wrong and roughly how often it is complained about. It cannot tell you the denominator.

We did not audit the trial terms. Reviewers disagree about whether the trial was five days, seven days or a month, and we did not sign up to check which promotion was running when. Where that disagreement matters, we said so rather than picking the version that made the better story.

Read the Full Breakdown

You can read the full negative review breakdown for Fubo on Android, or go straight to the cancellation and refund guide, the trust check and apps like it. For the same charged after cancelling pattern elsewhere, see SiriusXM subscribers who could not cancel and Brigit charging after cancellation. For what other streaming services get complained about instead, see what Peacock Premium really costs, HBO Max showing ads on the ad free plan and Paramount Plus crashing on Android.