Last Updated: July 2026
Why Arrivd Is Subscription-Based
Arrivd charges a subscription because it does not sell ads, build a shopping feed, or sell your order data. Free package trackers are free because you — and your purchasing behavior — are the product. With Arrivd, you pay a small fee and your data stays yours.
If you've searched for package tracking apps, you've noticed that most of them are free. Route, Shop, Parcels — all free to download, free to use. So the obvious question when you land on Arrivd is: why does this one cost money?
The short answer: Arrivd is not trying to be a shopping app. And that distinction changes everything about how the product is built and how it makes money.
How Free Trackers Actually Make Money
Free apps are not charities. They have infrastructure, engineering teams, and investors expecting returns. When there's no subscription fee, revenue comes from somewhere else. For most free package trackers, that somewhere is your shopping behavior.
- Retailer partnerships and affiliate commissions. Free trackers often surface shopping recommendations inside the app. When you click through and buy something, the app earns a cut. Your delivery history tells them exactly what categories you buy, how often, and from which retailers — highly valuable targeting data.
- Aggregated order data.Knowing what millions of people are buying, from where, and how often is commercially valuable. Some apps aggregate and sell this data to brands, analysts, and ad networks in anonymized form — though “anonymized” is often more theoretical than practical.
- In-app advertising.Some free trackers serve ads directly inside the app, including ads for products similar to what you've already ordered. The tracking data trains the targeting.
None of this is hidden. It's how free software works. But it means that when you use a free tracker, you are not the customer. You are the inventory.
What Arrivd Does Differently
Arrivd reads your Gmail automatically to find order and shipping emails — but unlike free shopping-first trackers, Arrivd is built around a paid subscription model: no ads, no shopping feed, and no selling your order data. The business model is simple: you pay a subscription, and Arrivd tracks your packages. That's the whole arrangement.
| Free trackers | Arrivd | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | $9.99/month or $99.99/year |
| Ads in-app | Yes | None |
| Shopping feed | Yes — that's the product | None |
| Order data sold | Aggregated, yes | Never |
| Revenue source | Your behavior | Your subscription |
| Purpose | Shopping platform | Package tracker |
What You're Actually Paying For
When you subscribe to Arrivd, you're paying for a tool that does one thing and does it well: shows you every package you have incoming, organized in one place, without asking anything in return beyond the subscription fee.
You're also paying for the privacy model. Because Arrivd makes money from subscriptions — not from your data — there is no financial incentive to collect more than what's needed to show you your deliveries. Arrivd does not store your emails. It does not build a purchase profile. It does not share data with advertisers.
The subscription is not a premium tier on top of a free version. It is the product. And the product is tracking, not selling.
Is It Worth It?
Arrivd is $99.99/year — about $8.33/month. For context: a single order you lose track of — a missed delivery window, a porch theft, a redelivery you have to chase down — can cost more in money and time than a full year of Arrivd. One prevented mishap pays for itself.
But beyond the numbers, the question is whether you want a package tracker or a shopping platform. If you want recommendations, deals, and a feed of things to buy based on your order history, free trackers exist for exactly that. If you want a clean, private tool that just tracks your packages — that's what Arrivd is.
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