Subscription boxes can range from time savers to splurges, but the convenience is truly second to none — I mean, who wouldn’t love to come home to a box of wine at their doorstep? In all seriousness, subscription services can be a lifesaver, from helping us stay on top of the little things (like remembering to change your razor or kitchen sponge) to inspiring the love of reading for our children.
Whether you want to treat yourself, solve your biggest dinner dilemmas, or get out of a rut and into a routine, there’s bound to be something to make your life a little easier in our ultimate list of subscription boxes and services.
Jump ahead by category:
- Subscriptions for Style, Beauty & Grooming
- Subscriptions for Travel
- Subscriptions for Health & Fitness
- Subscriptions for Food & Wine
- Subscriptions for Household
- Subscriptions for Babies & Children
- Subscriptions for Pets
Style, Beauty & Grooming
BirchBox
What It Is: The OG of personalized beauty and grooming subscription boxes for women and men
Why Subscribe: With this monthly subscription box, men and women can indulge in skincare, hair and beauty products. Set up a profile with your preferences to get a personalized box of makeup, fragrance and grooming samples shipped to your doorstep. It all starts at just $13 for four to six premium samples, along with tips on how to best use the products.
Cocotique
What It Is: A luxury collection of the best in beauty for women of color
Why Subscribe: This deluxe beauty subscription box is curated specifically for women of color and diverse ethnicities. Each month you’ll receive five to eight full-size and travel-size products to create your ultimate beauty arsenal. Products range from beauty and self-care to wellness and haircare.
Ipsy
What It Is: A personalized Glam Bag full of all the products you can’t wait to try
Why Subscribe: This monthly subscription service sends a makeup bag with five deluxe cosmetics samples every month. It’s the perfect way to try out premium beauty brands without committing to a high price tag or full-size product. The best part: subscriptions start at only $12.
BomiBox
What It Is: The best Korean skincare products delivered monthly
Why Subscribe: K-beauty is known for its fabled 10-step skincare routine, high efficacy, and natural ingredients. You can get your K-beauty fix with the BomiBox, which includes full-size and deluxe samples of Korean skincare products — plus a portion of the proceeds from each box supports a charity for at-risk girls and boys.
FabFitFun
What It Is: Shipping the season’s best beauty, fashion, fitness, and lifestyle products to your doorstep
Why Subscribe: If you’re looking for an all-in-one subscription, this may be the right box for you. FabFitFun curates a mix of beauty, wellness, fashion, fitness, home and tech items and delivers them to you four times a year. It’s a little bit of everything in one box, all for $49.99. Here’s what you can expect with the FabFitFun box.
Glory Skincare
What It Is: A black-owned business bringing the best clean skincare products to women of color
Why Subscribe: Get clean skincare and self-care essentials for women of every hue with a subscription to Glory Skincare. Each box contains exactly what you need to build a clean skincare routine, including three to seven full-size cleansers, moisturizers, exfoliating tools and more. Just fill out your profile with your skincare needs and get a personalized skincare routine.
Billie
What It Is: It started with the best razor ever and grew to a clean collection of beauty basics.
Why Subscribe: This body brand offers clean beauty products for your everyday essentials — but these basics are anything but basic. Start out with the award-winning Billie razor for just $9 a month and you’ll be hooked. The five-blade razor is encased in charcoal soap and it leaves your legs smooth every single time — I personally use it and I’m never going back to drugstore brands. If you love it, try the makeup removing wipes, lip balm, dry shampoo and more.
Brown Sugar Box
What It Is: From the Izzy & Live brand, everything is designed by and made for women of color
Why Subscribe: The ultimate “treat yourself” box, a subscription to Brown Sugar Box, includes a newly released shirt from the Izzy and Liv line as well as five to six full-size lifestyle products. It’s a great gift for a friend — or for yourself!
Dollar Shave Club
What It Is: The men’s shave product subscription that started it all
Why Subscribe: Men’s grooming has never been easier, as the Dollar Shave Club delivers razors, hair care, deodorant and more straight to your door. Join the club and get razor blades on a monthly basis, plus you can add additional grooming products at discounted prices.
Stitch Fix
What It Is: An online personalized styling service to build a wardrobe that fits your lifestyle
Why Subscribe: Shopping is simplified with personalized styling from the experts at Stitch Fix. Set your price range, style and size, and let the shoppers do the work for a $20 styling fee. When your clothes arrive, try them on at home, keep what you love and send back what you don’t. This personal style service evolves as the stylists learn your personal tastes and lifestyle. Stylists work with more than 1,000 top brands like Madewell, Free People, Toms and more, with a wide range of sizes for men, women and kids.
Travel
The Wordy Traveler
What It Is: A quarterly book club for the wanderlust at heart
Why Subscribe: Get lost in the stories of world travelers with this quarterly book club. Curated by world travelers to satisfy your wanderlust, you’ll be transported to a new destination without leaving your favorite reading spot. In addition, your wordy travels also support the education and medical care of girls and women around the world.
Spice Madam
What It Is: Give your taste buds a one-way ticket around the globe
Why Subscribe: This is your palate’s passport to explore tastes from around the world — all in a box delivered to your doorstep. This subscription box allows you to globetrot without leaving your kitchen, delivering you to a different destination every month with spices and recipes to explore a new culture while you cook.
Inspirato Pass
What It Is: An all-you-can-travel luxury vacation subscription
Why Subscribe: If you get back from vacation with dreams of your next adventure, then this subscription is for you. The Inspirato Pass is a luxury travel subscription with a monthly charge instead of paying nightly rates, taxes and fees during your vacation. Choose from thousands of trips and stay in Inspirato homes, hotels or resorts. Reserve a trip in just two days or up to 365 days in advance.
GlobeIn
What It Is: Get hand-crafted items from around the world
Why Subscribe: Break down geographical barriers and shop handmade goods from around the world with the Globein subscription boxes for women. You’ll discover unique food and lifestyle products all while supporting artisans from remote regions across the globe. Savor the flavors from India, Africa and Mexico; cherish one-of-a-kind pottery from Morocco; and get cozy in a handmade cotton loop scarf from Vietnam. Enjoy all these things while also supporting talented artisans from around the world.
Little Passports
What It Is: A fun way for your little one to explore world culture
Why Subscribe: Even the smallest of travelers can delight in globetrotting with this discovery box. This monthly educational subscription introduces your little one to geography, world culture, art and more. Perfect for ages 3-9 and older, this subscription service offers creative and fun ways for children to explore the world.
Universal Yums
What It Is: Taste test candy, cookies and confections from around the globe
Why Subscribe: The best way to learn about a new country or culture? Through food, of course. Take your tastebuds on a world tour with a subscription to Universal Yums, which sends snacks from a different country every month. Nosh on cream clusters from Colombia or jam biscuits from Egypt, and explore rare flavors like salty pineapple candy from Thailand or grape must cookies from Greece. You’ll surely have a taste for adventure after indulging in this box!
Health & Fitness
Ritual
What It Is: The multivitamin reimagined with simple, clean ingredients
Why Subscribe: Support healthy nutrition with this monthly vitamin subscription. Ritual vitamins deliver all your nutritional needs, in addition to being vegan friendly, non-gmo, and gluten and major allergen free — plus they’re delivered to your door monthly, making this healthy habit even easier.
Black Girl Magic Box
What It Is: A self-care subscription with products for and by black women
Why Subscribe: This bimonthly subscription is meant to stimulate the mind, body and soul of women of color. Each box is filled with seven to 10 goodies to bring you happiness and fulfillment, and most products are made by black women for black women. You’ll find everything from affirmations, planners and jewelry to headwraps, candles and more.
TheraBox
What It Is: Your monthly dose of self-care and relaxation products
Why Subscribe: Self-care is always important, and the TheraBox makes sure we make time for it each month. Curated by therapists, this monthly subscription box delivers full-size wellness products — think aromatherapy and beauty items — as well as a happiness activity backed by neuroscience and positive psychology. Subscribe to happiness here.
Fabletics
What It Is: Stylish, high-quality (and affordable) activewear for women and men
Why Subscribe: If new workout clothes keep you motivated to hit your fitness goals, then this subscription is for you. Sample affordable, quality and stylish fitness attire from actress and fitness fan Kate Hudson’s line of athletic wear each month so you can feel and look your best during your workout.
Yoga Club
What It Is: Look great for less while you work out
Why Subscribe: Look good for less with this monthly subscription box of athleisure wear. YogaClub delivers brand-name fitness apparel for 50% off retail prices, so you can enjoy the luxe studio looks without the high price tags. It’s $79 per month and each box comes with a three-piece outfit tailored to your personal workout style.
LOLA
What It Is: Feminine care products done right
Why Subscribe: This company knows periods aren’t one-size-fits-all, that’s why LOLA helps you go with the flow and get all your feminine care products delivered to your door. You can customize your period essentials and select the exact number of each absorbency in each box of tampons. Plus these products are made from high-quality ingredients you can trust.
Care/Of
What It Is: Supportive supplements for your health goals
Why Subscribe: Get a personalized daily pack of vitamins shipped to your doorstep with this monthly subscription. Take the quiz to get a routine tailored to your immunity needs and get your own health plan with vitamins, supplements, and more to help you feel your best every day.
Food & Wine
Blue Apron
What It Is: Meal kits solving everyday dinner dilemmas
Why Subscribe: If you’d like to add new kitchen skills to your repertoire or get creative with new ingredients, give Blue Apron a try. These inventive recipes will keep dinner interesting and the step-by-step instructions make cooking easy. Plus you’ll get the exact amount of ingredients you need, so you reduce waste and easily manage portion sizes. You’ll get to keep the recipes and have access to tutorial videos too!
Winc
What It Is: An easy and enjoyable way to explore new wines
Why Subscribe: This wine club is here to help you find your new favorite blend by answering just six questions. Every month, Winc delivers four bottles of wine that were strategically picked for your palate. You’ll rate each bottle in the app so Winc learns your preferences and can send the perfect pinot or superb sauvignon every time. Here’s why we love it.
Firstleaf
What It Is: Customized selection of wine delivered right to your doorstep
Why Subscribe: This customizable wine subscription makes sure your favorite wines are shipped and ready to be sipped when you get home. Most of us aren’t wine aficionados, but Firstleaf can help you perfect your palate one glass at a time. Just as wine gets better with age, Firstleaf gets better with every box, tailoring your shipments to your tastes as you rate each bottle you try. Check out more reasons to buy your wine online.
Mash & Grape
What It Is: Hand-selected spirits for your best happy hour ever
Why Subscribe: So maybe you’re not a wine drinker — luckily, there’s a subscription for that. Mash & Grape will deliver artisanal spirits crafted from around the world each month. You pick your poison — whiskey, scotch, bourbon, gin, rum, vodka or tequila — and every month Mash & Grape sends you an expertly picked bottle with tasting notes. When it arrives, it will be the happiest of hours!
Sun Basket
What It Is: Easy, delicious dinners made with healthy, clean ingredients
Why Subscribe: This healthy meal delivery focuses on organic produce and clean ingredients for a variety of dietary needs. Pick from plans that include paleo, vegetarian, gluten-free, diabetes-friendly and more. You’ll receive all the ingredients you need to create a delicious and dietitian-approved meal at home in minutes.
Purple Carrot
What It Is: The plant-based meal delivery kit for home cooks
Why Subscribe: You can discover the power of a plant-based diet with the Purple Carrot subscription These pre-portioned ingredients are delivered to your door each week for a convenient way to create healthy meals. Purple Carrot also offers breakfast, lunch and healthy snacks to help you live a healthier lifestyle all day long.
Fuego Box
What It Is: Some like it hot, and there’s a sauce for that
Why Subscribe: If you can handle the heat, subscribe to Fuego Box and get hot sauce delivered to your doorstep each month. Choose your heat level — from mild to extra hot — and the number of bottles to try each month, and prepare your palate to sample a variety of flavorful hot sauces from around the globe.
ButcherBox
What It Is: The Best. Meat. Ever — delivered to your door
Why Subscribe: Foodies and home cooks can ensure what they eat and feed their families is top-notch with a meat delivery subscription like ButcherBox. Choose from curated boxes or customize your selection of 100% grass-fed beef, free-range organic chicken, heritage-bred pork and wild-caught seafood. ButcherBox is committed to quality, offering meat that is humanely raised with no antibiotics or hormones.
Atlas Coffee
What It Is: The ultimate caffeine fix for coffee connoisseurs
Why Subscribe: Coffee lovers, rejoice! You can enjoy fresh flavors from around the world with a subscription to Atlas Coffee. We all have our go-to brews, but you can get your caffeine fix from Kenya, Tanzania, Colombia and beyond. Each month’s delivery features 12 ounces of freshly roasted coffee, flavor notes, a postcard and brewing tips.
Imperfect Foods
What It Is: Reduce food waste one ugly (but delicious) veggie at a time
Why Subscribe: This grocery delivery subscription offers you a way to save on groceries while also helping to reduce food waste in America. The service offers imperfect-yet-delicious produce (think misshapen fruit or oversized eggs), as well as quality dairy products, affordable pantry items and more that are delivered to your doorstep for up to 30% less than the grocery store.
Household
Grove Collaborative
What It Is: Trusted natural household products delivered to your doorstep
Why Subscribe: Healthy homekeeping matters to all of us, and Grove Collaborative offers a way to stay stocked up on all-natural household cleaning products. These healthy and effective home essentials are delivered to your doorstep every month, so you don’t have to worry about running out of anything. If you love the cleaning products, you can also add eco-friendly personal care, baby and pet products to your shipment.
The Honest Company Essentials
What It Is: Honestly safe home and beauty essentials
Why Subscribe: The Honest Company is known for its diaper and wipes subscription, but you can also subscribe and receive home essentials, cleaning products and beauty items too. Sign up for single item subscriptions for your favorite Honest products, set the frequency and you’ll never run out of your favorites again. Plus you’ll get 5% off your items and free shipping if your order is over $50.
Sponge Club
What It Is: Sponges on a schedule — because the only clean sponge is a new sponge
Why Subscribe: The kitchen sponge is the dirtiest item in your home and this subscription makes sure you keep things clean. Replace your sponge every week with the Sponge Club subscription and receive four sponges a month for just $4.44. It’s an affordable way to clean with confidence and never worry about a bacteria-filled sponge again.
The Bouqs
What It Is: Brighten someone’s day with a fresh bouquet
Why Subscribe: Fresh flowers never go out of style and neither will this subscription. Make fresh flowers a regular part of your home décor with a subscription service like The Bouqs. Fresh flowers and plants are delivered straight to your door, and they all come from sustainable farms, so they last longer. Choose from classic cuts, roses, rustic blooms or seasonal picks starting at $36 per month.
Sundae Home
What It Is: Home décor straight to your door for each season
Why Subscribe: If you love adding pieces to your home each season, this subscription is for you! Sundae Home is a seasonal subscription box that delivers premium home décor, housewares and accessories each quarter. The box includes four to six full-size items, with a mix of both established and up-and-coming brands. You get the department store quality and boutique finds delivered to your door.
Decorated
What It Is: Seasonally inspired décor to spruce up your home
Why Subscribe: Making your house a home takes time and effort, that’s why the experts at Decorated are making it easier than ever to find stylish and timeless pieces for your home. You’ll receive six to eight seasonally inspired home décor pieces delivered to your door four times a year. Your package comes with a how-to booklet with ideas and placement suggestions, plus your subscription gets you access to the members-only shop where you’ll find complementing décor.
VellaBox
What It Is: Natural candles for cozy living every month
Why Subscribe: This artisan candle subscription can help transform your space with the strike of a match. You can breathe easy knowing these clean-burning candles are made from natural ingredients. The candles are delivered each month with expertly curated scents to perfectly pair with the season.
Babies & Children
KiwiCo
What It Is: Make learning fun with age-appropriate science and arts projects
Why Subscribe: Get hands-on learning for kids of all ages with STEM, STEAM, science and art projects from a monthly KiwiCo subscription. These fun and enriching play crates are designed by experts and tested by kids. Each play crate is designed for specific age groups from babies and toddlers to teenagers and the biggest kids at heart. Whether they love doodling or tinkering, there’s a KiwiCo crate for every kind of kid. Here’s what we love about KiwiCo.
The Honest Company Diapers Bundle
What It Is: Stylish diapers and safe products for your baby delivered each month
Why Subscribe: Get eco-friendly and super cute diapers delivered to your doorstep each month with the Honest Diapers & Wipes bundle. These comfortable diapers keep your baby dry and parents will love the stylish prints. You can mix and match diaper sizes, prints and training pants, too. And if you love other Honest products, you can add up to eight items and save 15%. You can get everything you love in one box!
Hello Bello
What It Is: Super cute, eco-friendly baby essentials that won’t break the bank
Why Subscribe: Get premium, plant-based baby products delivered each month with a Hello Bello subscription. The company was started by actors and parents Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, who believe parents shouldn’t have to choose between what’s best for their baby, their budget and the planet. A Hello Bello bundle includes seven packs of diapers, four packs of wipes and you get 15% off add-on items like vitamins, foaming hand soap, laundry detergent and more. Plus the diaper designs (aka booty art) are too cute to pass up!
Lovevery
What It Is: Award-winning, Montessori-inspired toys for babies and toddlers
Why Subscribe: This subscription service will delight both parents and kids with stage-based play essentials for babies and toddlers. These Montessori-based play kits are designed by child development experts — including practitioners, researchers and academics — to create wonder-inducing toys to foster learning through play at every stage. The play kits start at $36 a month for newborns to age 3.
Bookroo
What It Is: A book club to help your child fall in love with reading
Why Subscribe: Tired of reading the same old books? Bookroo can help. This award-winning children’s book club can expand your library beyond the classics and favorites and help you and your child discover new stories and adventures from other authors and illustrators. Bookroo ranges from picture books for babies and toddlers to chapter books for children up to 10 years old. Each book comes individually wrapped and boxes start at $16.95 per month.
Prime Book Box
What It Is: An affordable way to add new stories to your child’s home library
Why Subscribe: Storytime means so much more than just reading books, and Amazon’s Prime Book Box can help foster your child’s love of reading and cherish quality time together. Each box contains two hardcover books or four board books, and helps you save 40% off list price. Boxes are available for ages 0 to 12, so you can enjoy new releases, classics and hidden gems tailored to your child’s age.
Tiny Organics
What It Is: Organic meal delivery for babies and toddlers
Why Subscribe: Get fresh, organic and nutrient-rich baby and toddler meals delivered to your door with Tiny Organics. You’re sure to raise an adventurous eater with the variety of flavors, textures and shapes so you can reduce the chances of having a picky eater on your hands. The chef-curated meals are plant-based and free of the Big-8 allergens, and crafted with your child’s developmental milestones in mind. Just choose a meal plan and recipes for a healthy and nutritious start from the first bite.
Little Spoon
What It Is: Healthy eating habits start here for babies and toddlers
Why Subscribe: This baby and toddler meal delivery kit helps make dinner time easy with fresh, organic food for your little one. From fresh blends for your baby’s first bite to clean and nutritious meals for your toddler, Little Spoon encourages healthy eating habits from the start. Plus it helps take the stress of meal prep off parents’ plates! Here’s our take on the Little Spoon subscription box.
Kidpik
What It Is: An easier way to build your kid’s wardrobe
Why Subscribe: This monthly clothing subscription brings the store to you with personal styling to help make shopping for your kids quick and convenient. The box includes seven pieces of clothing, shoes and accessories for three coordinated outfits. Take the quiz to tell us what your kids like, try the clothes on at home, keep what you love and send back what doesn’t work. You’ll only pay for the clothes you keep!
Stitch Fix Kids
What It Is: Personal styling for toddlers and tweens
Why Subscribe: This popular clothing subscription for adults now styles kids aged 2-12. Get stylish, well-fitting finds for your little ones and trendy pieces for your tweens. It’s simple: tell Stitch Fix your price range and sizes, try on 8-12 pieces at home, keep your kid’s favorites and send back the rest. Shopping with kids doesn’t get much easier than that!
Bluum
What It Is: The perfect gift box for mommy and baby
Why Subscribe: This subscription box is for moms and munchkins. Known as a one-stop shop for everything pregnancy, baby and toddler, Bluum’s box of goodies and products include essentials, toys, books and other top products for every developmental stage and age — not to mention some cool gear and awesome finds for parents too.
Strong Self(ie)
What It Is: Makes gifting for girls easy for you and positive for her
Why Subscribe: It’s not easy being a girl today, but this quarterly subscription box is filled with positive messages and trendy products to help parents raise strong girls. Shopping for teens is hard, but this box makes birthdays, holidays and happy moments easy and unforgettable.
CampusCube
What It Is: A care package for the collegiate in your life
Why Subscribe: You never outgrow the joy of getting a gift in the mail! Let your college-aged kid know you’re thinking of them with the CampusCube, a care package perfect for birthdays, holidays, finals or just because! Each care package contains healthy snacks, personal care items and other goodies. You can choose from individual cubes or monthly packages.
Pets
BarkBox
What It Is: Toys, treats and chews for your very best friend
Why Subscribe: Treat your furbaby to something special every month with BarkBox. Each box includes two toys, two all-natural bags of treats and a chew to keep them busy. Plus, there’s a cute monthly theme for each box to offer plenty of variety to your precious pet. You can spoil your spaniel or pamper your pooch for $25. Learn more on our take on BarkBox here.
RescueBox
What It Is: A gift for your pet that also helps animals in need
Why Subscribe: If you’re passionate about pets in need, you can sign up for a subscription to RescueBox by The Animal Rescue Site. Surprise your furry friend with a monthly delivery of premium treats, toys and chews for any age or size. And with every RescueBox subscription, the company is able to donate 142 bowls of food to shelter pets in need as part of its Subscribe 2 Good program.
meowbox
What It Is: The purrfect present for your cat
Why Subscribe: Can’t forget about the cats! Meowbox offers a monthly subscription box filled with unique toys and treats for cats. Even the most finicky of felines will love this box of goodies that are thoughtfully created and designed by a team of cat lovers. And while the toys and treats are purrfect for your kitty, the box itself may be the most fun! And for every subscription box sold, meowbox gives a can of food to a shelter cat.
Bullymake Box
What It Is: Durable dog toys and tasty treats for the cutest chewers
Why Subscribe: Have a destructo-doggie on your hands? Fear not, there’s a subscription box for you too! Bullymake Box is the monthly box for super chewers that includes durable dog toys and delicious treats. These toys are built to last and are made for the extreme chewer, tugger or fetcher. If your dog does destroy it or isn’t satisfied, Bullymake will replace it for free.
