- Price comparator 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 a fun idea for anyone, but a new app promises to solve that administrative headache while saving you money when it comes time to renew your policies.
The revamp 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 great benefits. Firstly, it allows you to store the details of all your insurance policies (including your car, home and travel details) along with your tax and MOT status, all in one place. That means you’ll no longer have to search through old folders for documents, as the app helps you quickly extract key information such as expiration dates.
But the most useful feature for many will be the Renewal reminders. It will send you these when any of your policies need to be renewed and will also let you know when you are in the so-called “golden window” for the best deals.
This is useful because the best time to renew is not, as you may have suspected, the night before your existing policy expires. “Our research shows that it is often much cheaper to shop for insurance policies before they are due for renewal. By launching Renewal, our goal is to make sure no one misses out on that crucial window, when savings are at their highest,” said Go.Compare spokesperson Matthew Sanders.
How does it work?
I tried adding my insurance details to Renewal and the process was pretty quick and painless. As long as you’re willing to disclose these details (you can check the app’s privacy policy if you’re unsure), I can definitely see the benefit of having it all centralized in one place.
Adding your car details is the easiest, as the app can pull up publicly available information such as your MOT and tax status, along with your insurance details. The interface is clean and simple, with a dashboard that brings everything together in one place, and you can add additional details like your breakdown cover so you can quickly contact your provider if you’re on the side of the road.
So far I’ve only manually added insurance details, such as my house, but there is an option to “forward policy email” to Renewal so it can pull 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 as well in practice.
Naturally, Renewal is a free app because you can earn commission from insurance providers when it comes to getting new quotes. But that’s no different to some of the existing price comparison services I use, and the app feels like an upgrade from my previous ‘system’ of combining a tired admin folder with frantic email searches. So far, it seems others agree, as the app has a 4.8 star rating on both the App Store and Google Play Store.
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