Comparison

编程盒子 · Programming Box vs Runlow

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

编程盒子 · Programming Box

This tool integrates advanced programming knowledge, skills, and experience, covering topics like design patterns, architecture, and deployment. It's a valuable resource for experienced programmers, featuring an auto-scrolling screen and color annotation.

Highlights
  • Integrates advanced programming knowledge
  • Covers design and deployment patterns
  • Explains architecture patterns (e.g., clean architecture, microservices)
  • Auto-scrolling screen for easy reading
  • Color annotation for content marking
Features
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Programming Box is a tool that integrates advanced programming knowledge, skills and experience. For example, common drift programming, design patterns, architecture design, and deployment patterns. The architecture pattern includes clean architecture, onion architecture, and microservices architecture etc. It is a pillow book worth cherishing for advanced programming engineers. You can also easily read the automatic scrolling screen and annotate the content in different colors.

About

Runlow

Monitor your AI service token limits and spending across multiple providers in real-time. View usage at a glance with live activities, dynamic island integration, and customizable widgets. Stay informed with notifications before hitting limits.

Highlights
  • Real-time AI usage tracking
  • Live Activities and Dynamic Island integration
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Service status indicators
  • Customizable meters and notifications
  • Mac menu bar app
  • Private by design, no account needed
Features
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Runlow shows how much of your AI usage you have left, on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, in widgets, on your watch and in your Mac's menu bar, before you run out. Connect the services you pay for and every limit becomes a colour-coded meter that fills from green to red as you use it, with the time until it resets beside it. WHAT IT TRACKS • Claude: session and weekly limits, per-model limits, multiple accounts and extra-usage credits • Codex (ChatGPT): your plan's limits • Gemini CLI: quota for supported work or school accounts • Antigravity: Gemini and shared Claude/GPT usage limits for your plan • Cursor: plan usage • GitHub Copilot: premium requests • OpenRouter: credit balance, key spend, and spending today, this week and this month • Xiaomi MiMo: Token Plan credits used and your pay-as-you-go balance ANTIGRAVITY SETUP Set up Antigravity on your Mac with Google's command-line tool and Runlow's numbered guide. With iCloud sync enabled in Runlow, your Mac can share readings with iPhone and Apple Vision Pro. Fresh readings need Runlow running on an awake Mac. THE LOCK SCREEN CARD Pin up to eight meters to your Lock Screen as a Live Activity. Choose the headline meter, how big the top row is, how many meters fit, whether every meter gets a bar, and where the refresh button and the "updated" stamp sit. Reset times can count down live. The Dynamic Island shows the number you pick on each side, and expands to as many as six meters. A SETUP WIZARD One question at a time, with your own card in front of you the whole way: which meters, how big, the bars, the typeface, the background, how the numbers read. Cancel puts everything back. WIDGETS Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets, the large one holds up to twelve meters, each with its bar, and rectangular, circular and inline Lock Screen widgets. Long-press a widget to choose which meters it shows, and tap its refresh button for fresh numbers. MAKE IT YOURS Seven themes, one tap each, that follow light and dark on their own. Nine typefaces. Bars in one piece or in blocks like a fuel gauge. Colour bars by the theme, by usage, by usage as a gradient along the bar, or give any meter its own colour and gradient. A glass, black, light or custom-coloured background. Name any meter, hide the ones you do not need, and put the rest in your order. Numbers as used or as what is left. ON YOUR MAC Runlow lives in the menu bar: the number sits next to the clock, and a click drops down every limit. Put as many meters in the menu bar as you like, side by side or stacked, and right-click any meter to add it or take it out. The Mac has the same themes, bars and setup wizard. ON YOUR WRIST Your focus meter on Apple Watch, in your theme, with its own settings page and a live preview. THE DASHBOARD Full-screen mode turns an iPad or iPhone into a wall of live meters for the desk. Landscape lays every limit out as tiles. History charts every meter over time, with an optional forecast, "at this pace, tomorrow around 11:14", worked out from your own readings. A payments log tracks what you pay each service, with CSV export. Notifications warn you before you hit a wall and tell you the moment a limit resets, and service status flags when a provider is having an outage. ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Your settings can follow you to your other devices through your own iCloud, colours, themes, meter names and order, the Lock Screen layout, and you choose what travels. Off unless you turn it on. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Runlow has no account of its own. Saved sign-in details are stored in Keychain. Supported connections and Antigravity readings can sync through your iCloud Keychain. Your credentials and usage are not sent to us. Explore with sample data in Demo Mode. One purchase covers your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro. Runlow is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cursor, GitHub, OpenRouter or Xiaomi.

Screenshots

编程盒子 · Programming Box4 screens
Runlow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Runlow at 5 against 编程盒子 · Programming Box's 3. 编程盒子 · Programming Box's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

编程盒子 · Programming Box costs $0.99 and Runlow $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
编程盒子 · Programming Box versus Runlow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter编程盒子 · Programming BoxRunlow
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#198#179 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer何均 邓LEON NELIO FIGUEIRA

Customer experience

编程盒子 · Programming Box

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Runlow

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

编程盒子 · Programming Box

No in-app purchases

None

Runlow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 编程盒子 · Programming Box free?
编程盒子 · Programming Box costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Runlow free?
Runlow costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do 编程盒子 · Programming Box or Runlow have ads?
Neither 编程盒子 · Programming Box nor Runlow shows ads.
Which is more popular, 编程盒子 · Programming Box or Runlow?
编程盒子 · Programming Box currently peaks at #198 in the App Store charts, and Runlow at #179. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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