Look After My Bills No Longer Operating: Energy Switching Options Explained
If you’re here because you were using Look After My Bills or were thinking of joining, the short version is this:
You can’t sign up anymore, and existing users are no longer being automatically switched.
The service quietly wound down after years of disruption in the UK energy market, where cheap fixed deals largely disappeared and automatic switching became far less effective.
If you previously gave them permission to switch your energy, nothing new will happen going forward. Your energy supply itself is completely safe — this only affects the switching service, not your gas or electricity.
So the real question becomes: what’s the best alternative now?
I’ll get to that shortly — but first, this post still deserves proper context.
What was Look After My Bills?
Look After My Bills launched in 2018 and pitched a simple idea: “cheap energy forever”.
Founded by Will Hodson and Henry de Zoete, the company gained mainstream attention after appearing on Dragon’s Den, where they secured £120,000 for a small equity stake. At its peak, the business claimed over 500,000 users.
The appeal was obvious:
• They tracked when your energy deal ended
• They searched for cheaper tariffs
• They switched you automatically
• You didn’t have to think about it again
For people who hate admin, it was a great pitch.
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Why did Look After My Bills shut down?
This is the uncomfortable bit.
Automatic switching services only work when there are lots of competing cheap tariffs. From 2021 onwards, that stopped being true.
Price caps, supplier collapses, and razor-thin margins meant:
• Fewer exclusive deals
• Little or no commission for switchers
• Very small savings (often under £30)
• No commercial incentive to auto-switch
At that point, the business model just didn’t stack up anymore.
This wasn’t a scam or sudden failure — it was death by market conditions.
What should former Look After My Bills users do now?
If you previously relied on them, you need to take back control — but that doesn’t mean hours of faff.
Here’s the sensible approach to take now.
Best alternatives to Look After My Bills
1. Manual switching (still the cheapest option)
Unsexy but true.
Checking once a year yourself still gives you:
• Access to sign-up bonuses
• Cashback offers
• Referral credits (often £50+)
For example, Octopus Energy regularly offers referral credit that auto-switching services never passed on.
Yes, it takes 30–45 minutes. But it’s usually the highest-value option.
2. MoneySavingExpert Cheap Energy Club
MoneySavingExpert runs a free alert-based service that emails you when better deals appear.
Important distinction:
This does not auto-switch, but it does:
• Track your tariff end date
• Notify you when savings appear
• Sometimes unlock exclusive deals
For most households, this is the closest free replacement.
3. Paid auto-switching services (not for everyone)
Switchd scans the whole market, not just commission-paying suppliers — which is good.
But it does charge a subscription fee.
If you’re a low-usage household, that fee can easily cancel out any savings. These only really make sense for larger homes with high energy consumption.
4. Benchmark tools (no switching)
Sites like ismybillfair won’t switch for you, but they’ll tell you if you’re paying more than similar households.
It’s useful as a reality check — just don’t expect miracles.
Was Look After My Bills ever really “the cheapest”?
No — and it never claimed to be.
Like all free switching services, it relied on supplier commission. That meant:
• Not every supplier was included
• Cashback offers were ignored
• Referral bonuses were missed
Convenience was the trade-off.
For many people, that was absolutely fine — but it’s worth being honest about.
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Look After My Bills review – final verdict (updated)
Look After My Bills did exactly what it said on the tin — until the market made that impossible.
If you hate switching, it was brilliant while it lasted.
If you chase every last £, it was never optimal.
Now that it’s gone, the best replacement depends on how involved you want to be:
• Want maximum savings? → manual switch
• Want reminders, not effort? → MSE alerts
• Want automation at any cost? → paid services
There’s no perfect one-click solution anymore — and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
