About terma

terma started as a personal spreadsheet — a running list of subscriptions, contracts, and renewal dates that kept slipping through the cracks anyway, because a spreadsheet only helps if you remember to open it. The app is the version of that list that actually reminds you, built by Maarten Audenaert.

Maarten Audenaert

Maarten builds terma end to end — the app, the AI document scanning, and the per-country legal-notice rules that power its reminders and cancellation letters. Writing those rules meant reading through actual consumer-protection law and standard contract terms for each country terma supports, not summarizing someone else's summary of them, which is also where most of this blog's guides come from: notice periods, auto-renewal clauses, and the pricing patterns that show up across hundreds of catalogued subscriptions and contracts.

This blog is where that research ends up when it's useful beyond the app itself: how notice periods actually work, why a price quietly went up, and what the small print usually means in practice. It's written from that work, not as neutral third-party journalism — terma is a product with an obvious interest in people knowing what they're signed up for, and this blog is part of that same goal.

Corrections

Consumer-protection rules and provider pricing change, and this blog covers many countries at once. If something here is out of date or wrong, the fastest way to reach us is the in-app feedback option in terma's Settings.