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How to cancel Audible
On the Audible website (not the app): your name › Membership details › Cancel membership › Confirm cancellation. Use any leftover credits first: they are lost on cancellation, but every title you bought stays yours.
On the web
- Sign in on the Audible website in a browser (audible.de, audible.fr, audible.it and so on, whichever you signed up on).
- Select your name at the top, then Membership details.
- Select the Cancel membership link. Audible will offer a pause or a cheaper plan; keep going.
- Select Confirm cancellation. A confirmation email follows, and the Membership details page shows the end date.
If you subscribed through Apple or Google
- A membership bought inside the iOS or Android app is billed by that store: cancel it in Apple’s Subscriptions or Google Play’s Subscriptions.
- Credits from a store-billed membership do not expire at cancellation, unlike credits from a web membership.
Before you cancel
- Notice period
- None. The membership runs to the end of the current billing period.
- Refunds
- No refund of the current month. Deleting the app does nothing; only the website cancellation counts.
- Worth knowing
- Unused credits are lost at cancellation. Spend them before the end date; anything bought with a credit is yours forever.
- Audible offers a pause of one to three months that keeps the credits. If you just need a break, that is cheaper than losing them.
- On the Standard plan, access ends with the membership; only Premium Plus purchases are permanent.
- Audible membership and Amazon Prime are separate; cancelling one does not touch the other.
Your rights in the EU
These apply in most EU countries on top of whatever the service’s own terms say. The detail varies by country, so treat this as the floor, not the full picture.
- 14 days to change your mind. For most contracts you sign online you have 14 days to withdraw without giving a reason. For a digital service you start using straight away, the seller can ask you to give up that right at checkout, which is what the tick-box you clicked past was for, or charge you for the part you used.
- Auto-renewal has to be clear. A service that renews automatically has to tell you so before you sign up, including how long each renewal lasts and what it costs. Some countries go further: in Germany, a contract signed since March 2022 can only renew indefinitely if you can then cancel monthly, and notice periods are capped at one month. France, Austria, Romania and Sweden require a separate reminder before a renewal.
- A cancel button, in Germany. If you signed up online with a company selling in Germany, its website has to carry a clearly labelled cancellation button since July 2022, and cancelling has to be as easy as signing up was. Across the EU, an equivalent withdrawal function for the 14-day right became mandatory on 19 June 2026.
- Keep the confirmation. Cancel through the account page or the official form rather than by replying to a no-reply address, screenshot the confirmation, and keep the email. If a charge lands after that date, the confirmation is what gets it reversed.
Sources: European Consumer Centre Germany, Online subscriptions · Directive (EU) 2023/2673, withdrawal function from 19 June 2026
Questions
Do I keep my audiobooks if I cancel Audible?
On Premium Plus, yes: every title bought with a credit or money stays in your library and can be played or downloaded whether you are a member or not. On the Standard plan, access ends with the membership.
What happens to my unused credits?
They are lost when the membership ends. Use them before the end date, or pause the membership instead, which keeps them.
Why can’t I cancel Audible in the app?
The app has no cancel option unless you subscribed through the app store. Open the Audible website in a browser and use Membership details.
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