Are you getting frustrated at having to stay at home all the time due to coronavirus? Are you trying to cut back on your spending this month? We can help on both of those fronts. Here’s all the free trials being offered this month for streaming movies, TV shows, and music as well as video game streaming services and book subscription services.

Remember, as long as you cancel before the end date, you won’t spend a dime. Check out the full list below.

Streaming Video

Apple TV+: 7-day trial, $5-a-month after

• Access to Apple original programming like The Morning Show, Ghostwriter, Defending Jacob and the Beastie Boys Story.  (If you recently bought an Apple device, you should get a year of Apple TV+ for free.)

CBS All-Access: 1-month trial, $6 to $10-a-month after

• Access to CBS original shows like Picard, Star Trek Discovery and The Good Fight. Includes access to 10,000 episodes of CBS shows, live sports broadcasts and 24/7 news.

DC Universe: 7-day trial, $8-a-month after

• Access to DC live-action shows like Doom Patrol & Swamp Thing as well as animated shows like Young Justice and Harley Quinn.

Disney+: 7-day trial, $7-a-month after

• Access to Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars & Nat Geo content. Combo subscription option to Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ for $13-a-month.

HBO Now: 7-day trial, $15-a-month after

• Access to tons of original shows as well as recently released movies. This trial can also be found within Amazon, Hulu, the Roku store, DirectTV Now and AT&T Watch TV.

Hulu: 30-day trial, $6 to $12-a-month after

• Access to tons of original shows as well as new episodes from major networks the following day.

Netflix: 30-day trial, $9 to $16-a-month after

• Access to tons of original movies / TV Shows as well as documentaries, true crime, & comedy specials.

Prime Video: 30-day trial, $10 to $13-a-month after

• Access to tons of original shows and movies. Included in Amazon Prime subscription.

Quibi: 90-day trial, $5 to $8-a-month after

• Only works on mobile devices, Original content, episodes are 10-minutes or less.

Sundance Now: 7-day trial, $5 to $7-a-month after

• Access to true crime series, original dramas and thrillers.

YouTube Premium: 1-month trial, $12-a-month after

• Offers access to original programming as well as advertisement free YouTube videos, offline viewing, background play and access to YouTube Music

Streaming Music

Amazon Music Unlimited: 3-month trial, $8-a-month after.

• 60 million song library, unlimited skips, ad free.

Amazon Music HD: 30-day trial, $13-a-month after

• 60 million songs, double the bitrate of other services, millions of songs in 10x the standard bitrate.

Apple Music: 90-day trial, $10-a-month after

• Offers access to 60 million songs, advertisement free, accessible on iOS and Android devices. Also includes local radio stations & offline listening.

Pandora Premium: 60-day trial, $10-a-month after

• 30+ million songs, ad-supported option also available for free.

Spotify Premium: 30-day-trial, $10-a-month after

• 50 million songs, ad-supported option also available for free.

YouTube Music: 30-day trial, $10-a-month after

• Listen to music on YouTube without advertisements, offline or with your smartphone screen off.

Video Games

Google Stadia Pro (PC): 2 free months, $10 a month after

• The free trial offers access to 9 games: Destiny 2, Grid, Gylt, Steamworld Dig 2, Steamworld Quest, Serious Sam, Spitlings, Stacks on Stacks and Thumper.

GeForce Now (PC): 90 day trial, $5-a-month after

• You can also get completely free access, but it’s limited to a single hour of playtime. The 90-day trial offer priority access, extended session length and RTX functionality.
• Ubisoft recently added their library of games to the service, like the Assassin’s Creed series and the Far Cry series.

PlayStation Now (PS4): 7-day trial, $5 to $10-a-month after

• Includes over 300 PS4 games as well as 500 PS3 and PS2 games.

Books / AudioBooks

Audible: 30-day trial, $15-a-month after

• Your choice of 1 audiobook + Audible originals. In addition, check out the free books for kids (like the Harry Potter books)

Kindle Unlimited: 2-month trial, new accounts only, $10-a-month after

• Offers access to over a million eBooks and thousands of audiobooks. Requires a Kindle (or the Kindle Cloud reader in a web browser).

Scribd: 30-day trial, $10-a-month after

• Includes access to books, magazines, audiobooks and documents. There’s also a NYT bundle, if you want to subscribe to the service and the newspaper.

Getting Bored? Here’s every free trial on entertainment available during April 2020

Are you tired of watching TV? Are you getting bored of the same, stay-at-home routine everyday? Have you lost track of what day is it? Break out of the cycle of coronavirus tedium and learn a new hobby! You just might find something you love to do.

Of course, why spend money on learning a new hobby when there are resources online that will help you for free? Check out seven hobbies that you can learn for free while in quarantine.

Learn Photography

If you have a DSLR or are simply looking to get better shots with your smartphone camera, check out Nikon’s online camera school. Nikon typically holds in-person classes, but during coronavirus, they have made a number of their classes free to watch. While some of the classes are specifically targeted at Nikon owners, check out topics like photographing kids / pets, macro photography, and landscape photography to step up your game.

Here are some more free resources to check out:

• Lifehacker: Basics of Photography: The Complete Guide
• Future Learn: Commercial Photography: Still and Moving Image
• BluePrint: Professional Family Portraits
• Alison: 7 Photography Courses
• YouTube: The Art of Photography

Learn Origami

Got a big stack of printer paper or construction paper nearby? Grab a sheet and check out the free, online tutorials for Origami folding at the Spruce Crafts. Great for party tricks and it’s also a fun activity to kill an afternoon with the kids.

Here are some additional resources on YouTube:

• Happy Folding
• Jeremy Shafer
• Tadashi Mori (Make an origami Darth Vader!)
• Kade Chan

Learn Cooking / Drink Mixing

Tired of eating cold sandwiches? Want to give your microwave a break from frozen meals? You really can’t go wrong with the Bon Appetit YouTube channel. There are hundreds of videos that walk you through the steps of making both simple and complex meals.

Regarding drink mixing, check out Steve the Bartender’s YouTube channel. His straightforward style walks you through making delicious cocktails with the most common household ingredients.

Here are some additional resources:

• Binging with Babish (awesome for creative recipe recreations)
• New York Times Cooking
• How to Cook That
• Tasty

Learn a new Language

Adding a second language to your skill set can be ideal in areas where bi-lingual speaking is an important job skill. Or it can just be fun to learn a new language before visiting another country.

We like Doulingo. The ad supported version of the software is completely free (ad-free is $7 a month) and it teaches you reading / writing and speaking the new language. The company estimates that 34 hours of using the app is the rough equivalent of taking a language course at college.

Here are some other resources:

• Open Culture (Great for popular languages)
• Learn a Language (Great for basic phrases)
• Surface Languages (Great for learning common phrases / pronunciation)

Learn Fitness / Yoga

While the stay-at-home exercise equipment market segments has exploded over the last couple years, there are plenty of ways to learn proper fitness techniques and stay active without spending a dime. Fitness trainers have flooded Youtube with free workouts, everything from pilates to boxing.

If you are just getting started, check out the videos at Fitness Blender. With workouts for both men and women, this channel really excels at walking you through the basics. There are tons of options, with varying levels of intensity. There’s even videos that require zero equipment.

Here are some other great channels:

• MadFit: Real-time workouts, all types
• Blogilates: Focuses on core, arms, legs.
• Tone it Up: Focuses on female fitness.
• Yoga with Adriene: Huge variety of Yoga tutorials.
• Walk at Home: Good for beginners, low intensity / no -equipment workouts.

Learn Gardening

Getting outside during quarantine is ideal, even if it’s just spending 20 to 30 minutes outside tending to a new garden. We like the MIgardener channel as they offer general tips videos as well as walkthroughs on what they are planting.

Here are some other great channels:

• California Gardening
• OYR Frugal Gardening: Good saving money tips.
• Urban Gardening: Great for gardening in small spaces.
• Growing Your Greens: Great for food growing tips.

Learn Knitting / Sewing

We were a bit shocked at how quickly sewing machines have sold out on Amazon, during the coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps a large number of people are taking up crafting during quarantine?

Anyway, you don’t need to pay for any courses when learning to knit or fix your own clothing via sewing. We recommend the Sheep & Stitch YouTube channel to get started. They offer videos with beginner tips as well as full tutorials on making things like hats and scarfs.  On the sewing side, check out Made to Sew. Excellent walkthroughs on specific types of stitches as well as different techniques.

Here are some other great channels:

• Professor Pincushion: Excellent sewing how-to video collection
• Naztazia: Excellent knitting how-to videos.

7 Hobbies you can learn for free while in quarantine

Twitch is announcing a new promotion for Amazon Prime members called Free Games With Prime. Starting on March 15, Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to claim up to five free games each month that will likely be attached to your account as long as you have a subscription to Amazon Prime.

Similar to Xbox Games with Gold or PlayStation Plus free monthly titles, these games are targeted at the PC gaming community. Presumably, you will have to claim and download each game during the month it’s offered. Batches of five games will be replaced once a month. If you happen to miss it, you will have to wait until those games become available again during future months.

This is likely a move to support the launch of new indie games, but there will be some AAA titles thrown into the mix from time to time. On March 15, the first five games available for download will include Superhot, Shadow Tactics, Tales from Candlekeep, Oxenfree, and Mr. Shifty.

During April, March’s five games will be replaced with Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands, SteamWorld Dig 2, Kingsway, Tokyo 42, and Dubwars. This promotion is open to anyone with a Twitch Prime subscription, which basically means you have linked your Switch account to your Amazon Prime account (no cost beyond an Amazon Prime subscription).

It’s also possible that these games will be tied into your digital games purchases on Amazon, thus allowing your Amazon Prime subscription to lapse shouldn’t impact your ability to download titles if you are an intermittent, monthly Prime subscriber.

New Prime Perk: Free Video Games from Twitch each month

Without much fanfare, Apple has quietly announced a promotion that discounts ten popular apps down to $0.00, likely through the App Store’s birthday on July 10, 2013. In addition, some other developers are getting in on the action by discounting their apps down to zero as well.

We have included a full list with links for your perusal. Check out the selection of free apps below:

App Store Productivity

• Barefoot World Atlas (iPhone / iPad) – Interactive 3D globe that allows the user to explore the regions and countries of the world.
• Day One Journal (iPhone / iPad) – A journal for your mobile device, sleek design. Syncs using iCloud or Dropbox.
• How to Cook Everything (iPhone / iPad) – A great resource for someone that learning how to cook.
• Over (iPhone / iPad) – You can add gorgeous text and artwork to photos and share them on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr & Instagram.
• Traktor DJ (iPhone / iPad) – Excellent DJ software for the iPad.

App Store Games

• Badland (iPhone / iPad) – Sidescrolling action adventure platformer, design kind of reminds me of the Oddworld games
• Infinity Blade 2 (iPhone / iPad) – Very much like the original Infinity Blade, but with added RPG elements. You need 1.1GB free, btw.
• Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (iPhone / iPad) –  Indie adventure video game, reminds me of the 8-bit era.
• Tiny Wings (iPhone / iPad) – Combines the concept of Temple Run and the art of Braid for a relaxing, fun romp through the hills.
• Where’s My Water? (iPhone / iPad) – Created by Disney, this one is good for the kids. Lots of physics-based puzzles. Beware of in-app purchases.

Outside the Main Promotion:

• The Idiot Test 3 (iPhone) – Similar to the Moron Test, somewhat overly aggressive with the social sharing.
• Glow Puzzle (iPhone / iPad) – Puzzle game, requires logic.
• Wake n Shake Alarm Clock (iPhone) – Beautifully designed, somewhat sadistic alarm clock to help you wake up in the morning by requiring you to shake your phone.
• Knots 3D (iPhone / iPad) – Can teach you how to tie specific types of knots.
• Big Bad Soduku Book (iPhone / iPad) – Free Soduku puzzles, what’s not to like?
• Map My Ride+ (iPhone) – Great if you ride a bike and want to track a particular route.

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