Every streaming service's small print, compared

Nobody reads the terms. We did, so you can read one table instead, and then cancel things on time.

By the dodgybox.ie editor. Facts checked 24 September 2026. Updated 10 November 2026. How we check. Out of date? Tell us.

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The table
Cancelling well
What Irish consumer law says
Verdict

Every service on this site has terms and conditions. Most of them are long, several of them are dull, and one or two contain the sentence that decides whether you pay for a month you didn’t want. We read them on the services’ Irish pages so the whole lot fits in one table. The details, and the sources, are on each review.

The table

Service	Minimum term	Cancelling	Price rise: can you leave first?	Free trial	Sharing	Streams at once	Adverts	4K	Downloads
NOW	None; intro offers have their own term	Any time; watch until the next payment date	Rolling: yes, about 30 days’ notice. On an offer: not stated	Cinema, and Boost, 7 days	Personal use	1; 2 with Boost, 3 with Ultra Boost	On demand, unless you pay for Boost	Ultra Boost	Phone apps, some memberships
Sky	12 months	31 days’ notice; early exit charges inside the term	Not inside the minimum term; rises are capped at 10% or CPI	—	Your household	Sky Go: 2	In the bundled Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max plans	Needs the UHD pack	Sky Go Extra
DAZN	Flex: rolling 30 days. Annual: 12 months	Flex: 30 days’ notice and a pro-rata fee	—	—	—	Flex 1, annual 2	—	—	—
GAA+	None; passes are one-off. Flex: 12 payments	Stop auto-renew in your account	—	—	—	Different games only	—	—	Replays, not downloads
LOITV	Rolling, or 12 months	30 days’ notice	30 days’ notice by email	Converts to monthly	No login sharing	1	—	—	No
Clubber	30 days or 12 months, auto-renewing	Before the renewal date	Terms say prices may change	Converts to paid	—	1	Yes	—	—
Netflix	None	Any time; ends with the billing period	Yes: a month’s notice	—	Household; extra members €6.99	1, 2 or 4	No	Premium	All plans
Disney+	None; intro offers 6 months	Ends with the payment period	—	None	—	2 or 4	With Ads plan	Premium	Standard and Premium
Prime Video	None	Manage Prime Membership	—	30 days	—	—	Not in Ireland yet	—	—
Apple TV	None	Settings; 24 hours before a trial ends	Yes: 30 days’ email notice	7 days	Family, up to 6	6	No	Yes	Yes
HBO Max	None; Saver plans 12 months	Before the next billing date	—	Only with an offer	Household	2, or 4 on Premium	The two with-Ads plans; live content on all	Premium	Not on Basic with Ads
Paramount+	None	Ends with the billing period	Yes: 30 days’ email notice	—	Your home only	1, 2 or 4	Basic; live content on all	Premium	Standard and Premium
MUBI	None; annual paid upfront	Ends with the paid period; no refunds	Email notice, applies at renewal	7 days	Household	2	No	—	Phone apps

A dash means we couldn’t find it on the service’s Irish terms or help pages; where it matters, the review says what’s still being checked. Premier Sports isn’t in the table because you can’t buy it on its own here: whoever sells it to you, NOW, Sky or Virgin Media, sets the terms.

Cancelling well

The streaming business runs on people who meant to cancel. Don’t be one of them.

Diary it the day you sign up. The trial end, the intro end, the renewal. Two days early, not on the day.
Know which kind you’ve bought. On Netflix, NOW, HBO Max, Paramount+ and MUBI you keep watching to the end of the period you’ve paid for, so you can cancel the day after you pay and lose nothing. On DAZN Monthly Flex, LOITV’s flexible plan and Sky you give notice instead, so cancel a month before you want to stop paying.
Apple trials: cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, per Apple.
Intro offers: the cheap price usually comes with a minimum term. Note when it ends; that’s when the standard price starts.
Paid through someone else? If you signed up through an app store, Prime Video, Sky or another partner, cancel there, not with the service.
Pausing: on a rolling plan, cancelling is the pause. Leave for the dead months and come back when the thing you want is on. The finder plans the year this way.
Check the bundles first. Sky Ultimate TV already includes Netflix Basic, Disney+ Standard with Ads and HBO Max Basic with Ads. People pay twice all the time.

What Irish consumer law says

This is general information, not legal advice.

The 14-day cooling-off period. For contracts made online or by phone, you generally have 14 days to cancel, starting from the day you agree a service contract. For a digital service such as a streaming subscription, the service can only start inside those 14 days if you expressly asked for it to. If you then cancel within the 14 days, you pay an amount in proportion to what you’ve had. If the trader didn’t tell you about the right to cancel, or you didn’t expressly ask for the service to start, you pay nothing. For digital content, the right to cancel is lost only if you gave prior express consent, acknowledged that you would lose the right, and the trader confirmed it. Some services ask you to agree to this at checkout; read the box before you tick it.

Changes to a digital service. Under section 64 of the Consumer Rights Act 2022, a trader can change a digital service only if the contract allows it and gives a valid reason, the change comes at no extra cost to you, and you’re told reasonably in advance on a durable medium such as an email. If the change negatively affects your access to or use of the service, you can end the contract free of charge within 30 days of being told or of the change happening, whichever is later. That doesn’t apply if the effect is minor, or if the trader lets you keep the unchanged service at no extra cost.

Price rises. The CCPC lists, among terms that may be unfair, a term that lets a business increase the price without giving you the right to cancel if you think the rise is too high, and a term that lets it change the contract without a valid reason set out in the contract. Whether a particular term is unfair depends on the whole contract.

Auto-renewal. The CCPC says subscription auto-renewals are generally legal, but you must have been told clearly when you signed up.

Bundles with broadband or phone. ComReg’s rules require at least one month’s notice of contract changes for bundles that include an internet or phone service, and in some cases a right to leave without penalty. There’s no exit right where the change is only to your benefit, is purely administrative with no negative effect, or is imposed by law. ComReg’s page doesn’t say these rules cover TV-only subscriptions or streaming apps.

If a service won’t honour a right you think you have, start with its complaints process and keep everything in writing. The CCPC’s consumer pages are the next place to look.

Verdict

None of these services is trying to trap you, exactly. They’re just counting on you not reading this. Now you have, so put the dates in the phone and let the finder work out which months you need what.

For the practical steps, service by service, see how to cancel.

Questions people actually ask

Which streaming services have a minimum term in Ireland?

Sky's TV packages are 12 months. DAZN's annual plans and LOITV's €9.99 monthly plan are 12 months, and Clubber's Annual Pass is 12 months. Intro offers on NOW and Disney+ carry their own minimum terms. Netflix, Apple TV, Paramount+, HBO Max and MUBI roll monthly at the standard price.

Can I leave if the price goes up?

On most rolling services, yes: Netflix, Apple TV and Paramount+ all say you'll get notice and can cancel before the new price applies. Inside a Sky minimum term, a price rise within the capped limit doesn't give you a free exit.

Do I get the rest of the month if I cancel early?

On Netflix, NOW, HBO Max, Paramount+ and MUBI, yes: you keep watching to the end of the period you've paid for. DAZN's Monthly Flex, LOITV and Sky need notice instead.

Sources

What the facts on this page were checked against. Prices and rights change; the check date is at the top of the page.