Comparison

AI Usage vs Bars

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

Head to head
About

AI Usage

Monitor your usage across various AI services to avoid exceeding your limits. This app provides a centralized view of your consumption, showing how much you've used and when your quotas reset. Avoid unexpected service interruptions with this simple, visual tracking tool.

Highlights
  • Track AI service usage
  • Monitor remaining quotas
  • View reset times
  • Centralized dashboard
  • Visual usage indicators
  • Supports multiple AI services
Features
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Track your AI service usage and stay within your limits. THE PROBLEM AI services have usage quotas. You lose track. Limits hit at the worst time. WHY CHECKING MANUALLY ISN'T ENOUGH Each service has its own settings page โ€” but nobody opens five different apps to check usage one by one until it's too late. THE SOLUTION AIUsage tracks your AI service quotas โ€” Claude, Cursor, Antigravity, and more. See exactly how much you've used, how much is left, and when it resets. Simple. Visual. No more surprise limits. Support: steve_ham@icloud.com

About

Bars

Features
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Bars puts every limit you are living inside on one screen. Claude's five-hour session and its weeklies. Codex's windows and Spark. Notion AI. Your proxy's monthly bandwidth. Each one gets a meter that reads left to right, so the one about to run out is obvious at a glance. THE PACE MARK IS THE POINT A percentage tells you where you are. It does not tell you whether that is fine. Every meter carries a small tick showing where you would be if you were spending evenly across the window. A bar 78% full with three days left reads instantly as trouble. The same bar with three hours left reads as a job well paced. TOLD BEFORE IT BITES Set a threshold and Bars tells you when you cross it, while the app is closed. Set a pace warning and it tells you when you start burning faster than the window allows, and again when you drop back under. ON THE HOME SCREEN AND THE LOCK SCREEN Widgets in every size. With Pro, a Live Activity that counts down to the reset while a session is running, drawn by the system so it stays true whether or not the app is open, and a Dynamic Island that says which window it is about. YOUR CREDENTIALS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE Bars signs you in the way the official command-line tools do: a real sign-in page in Safari, never a password box we control. Tokens go into the iOS Keychain and nowhere else. There is no server and no account: nothing about your usage is collected by us or transmitted to us. Your recorded history syncs through your own private iCloud database when you are signed in to iCloud, so your other devices show the same figures โ€” that database is yours, and a developer cannot read it. ARRANGE IT YOUR WAY With Pro, pin what matters, hide what does not, and rename anything. The order you set is the order the widgets and the watch use. On iOS 27, you can also hold a card and drag it, and the others move aside to make room. FREE AND PRO Free follows one account and its weekly limit. Every tab is a working screen โ€” the dashboard, the per-tracker directories, your history as a calendar of days, and a CSV of every reading you can take with you. It is a real meter with a real pace mark, not a screenshot. Pro adds every account you connect and every window on each of them, the Lock Screen Live Activity and the Dynamic Island, and a board you can pin, hide and rename. It is bought once, not rented โ€” a single payment, no subscription, and shareable with your family. Fourteen days of Pro are free, and they start when you tap Start your free journey on the welcome screen. No subscription, no card, and nothing to cancel when it ends. If you skip it, Settings offers it again at any time. Bars is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Anthropic, OpenAI, Notion or BandwagonHost. All product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. Bars reads the same usage endpoints those services' own tools read, using credentials you provide, and any sample figures shown before you connect an account are clearly labelled as demo data.

Screenshots

AI Usage3 screens
Bars4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AI Usage at none against Bars's 1. AI Usage also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Bars's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Bars sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AI Usage asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
AI Usage versus Bars: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAI UsageBars
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews0.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyFortnightlyโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size50 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeung-Un HamNoah General Group Inc.

In-app purchases

None

AI Usage

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Bars

One-time1
  • Bars Pro$8.99

Questions

Is AI Usage free?
AI Usage is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bars free?
Bars is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AI Usage or Bars have ads?
AI Usage shows ads; Bars does not.

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