- Price comparison site Go.Compare has launched a new free app
- Renewal is designed to organize all your insurance documents in one place
- It also helps you save money with reminders when it’s time to renew them.
Staying on top of your insurance documents isn’t anyone’s idea of fun, but a new app promises to solve this administrative headache while saving you money when it comes time to renew your policies.
Renewal is free to download on iOS and Android and has just been relaunched by price comparison site Go.Compare. The original app, Rnwl, was acquired by Go.Compare in 2025, but the new, updated version became available this week.
The application provides two major advantages. Firstly, it allows you to store details of all your insurance policies – including your car, home and travel details – as well as your tax and MOT status, all in one convenient place. This means no more digging through old folders to find documents, as the app helps you quickly extract key information such as expiration dates.
But the most useful feature for many will be Renewal’s reminders. It will send them to you when any of your policies are due for renewal and will also let you know when you are in the ‘golden window’ for the best deals.
This is useful because the best time to renew is not, as you may have suspected, the day before your existing policy expires. “Our research shows that it is often much cheaper to compare insurance policies before they renew. By launching Renewal, our goal is to make sure no one misses this crucial window, when savings are at their highest,” said Matthew Sanders, spokesperson for Go.Compare.
How does it work?
I tried adding my insurance details to Renewal and the process was quite quick and painless. As long as you’re happy to forgo these details (you can check the app’s privacy policy if you’re unsure), I can definitely see the benefit of centralizing everything in one place.
Adding your car details is the easiest, as the app can extract publicly available information such as your MOT and tax status, as well as your insurance details. The interface is clean and simple, with a dashboard bringing everything together in one place, and you can add extra details like your breakdown cover so you can quickly contact your provider if you’re on the side of a road.
So far I’ve only manually added insurance details like my house, but there is an option to “forward a policy email” to Renewal so it can retrieve the information for you. Renewal says it can automatically extract details like your provider, renewal date and policy number from an email, which could be faster than adding them manually – if it works that well in practice.
Naturally, Renewal is a free app because it can earn commission from insurers when it comes to getting new quotes. But it’s no different from some of the existing price comparison services I use, and the app feels like an upgrade from my previous “system” combining a dog-eared admin folder with frantic email searches. So far, it seems others agree, as the app has a 4.8-star rating on the App Store and Google Play Store.
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