Comparison

SSH Term X vs CodexBar Usage Monitor

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

Head to head
About

SSH Term X

Manage and interact with AI agents directly from your phone. This app allows you to monitor agent status, provide input, and receive notifications, even when the app is closed. It supports various AI harnesses and models, ensuring your conversations stay private on your host.

Highlights
  • AI agent status monitoring
  • On-the-spot input and approval
  • Support for various AI harnesses and models
  • Kept shells for uninterrupted sessions
  • CJK input mode for accurate composition
  • Push notifications for agent updates
Features
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Your phone is the command center for your AI agents. Any harness, any model, any language. Japanese, Korean, and Chinese input won't break. CONNECTING IS NOT ENOUGH Agents run for a long time and stop to wait for approval or input. SSH Term lists the agents of supported harnesses on a card for each saved host, with their state: Working, Waiting for input, or Needs approval. See which one is waiting for what, and answer it on the spot. NOT LOCKED TO A HARNESS OR A MODEL Start any agent that runs in a terminal and give it instructions. Models and providers (API keys, Bedrock, and so on) stay as configured on your host. Agents run on your own host, and their conversations stay there instead of going through a third-party service. SUPPORTED HARNESSES The status list and chat view support Claude Code, Codex, Oh My Pi, Pi, and Copilot CLI. YOUR PHONE IS THE COMMAND CENTER Close the app and your agents keep running on the host (kept shells). Reopen it and the tab comes back with the output you missed. Approval requests, input waits, and finished turns reach you as push notifications through the free ntfy app, even with SSH Term closed (Slack, Discord, and Telegram also work). Send the next instruction to a running agent from the chat view. ANY LANGUAGE Instructions to an agent are prose in your own words. Japanese, Korean, and Chinese text often breaks in SSH apps; in SSH Term's IME mode it doesn't break mid-composition, so you can write long, detailed instructions in your own language. ONE-TIME PURCHASE. FEATURES DON'T DISAPPEAR LATER No account and no license server, so features don't disappear later. Every feature is included in the price; the only in-app purchase is an optional way to support development. No subscription, no ads, no telemetry. Your credentials stay on your device. ---------- AGENT LIST AND CHAT VIEW (BETA) Prepare a host once, and agents of supported harnesses started in a PC terminal show up on your phone too. Read a running conversation as a chat and reply or approve from there; what you send never mixes with text half-typed on the PC. KEPT SHELLS (NO TMUX, NO MOSH NEEDED) When the connection drops, the shell stays on the host. Switching between Wi-Fi and mobile data or locking the screen won't stop your work. On reconnect the tab reattaches by itself and shows what you missed. The host only needs a small helper, stagent, which the app installs to ~/.ssh-term/agent after verifying its sha256 (Linux, macOS, and Windows hosts). AI AGENT SESSIONS Resume conversations of supported harnesses from a list, in a kept shell, tmux, zellij, screen, or herdr. CJK INPUT (IME MODE) Compose text in the input box and send it to the terminal in one go; characters still being composed never leak out as commands. ON THE BIG SCREEN OF AN IPAD OR AN OPEN IPHONE DUO Two tabs side by side, a home screen with each host's agent cards, a sidebar of open tabs with those waiting for approval first, and a two-pane filer. With a hardware keyboard, type just like on a PC. Split View works too. SFTP FILE BROWSER AND PREVIEW Check files an agent created or edited without leaving the terminal. Sort, rename, delete, and bookmark folders per host. Syntax-highlighted preview. AUTO-RECONNECT, MULTI-TAB Reconnects automatically when the network drops (up to 3 attempts). Run several connections side by side in tabs. Works over Tailscale SSH. INPUT ASSIST TOOLBAR One-tap Ctrl+C, Tab, Escape, arrow keys, F1–F12, Home/End/PageUp/PageDown, plus your own custom keys and commands. AUTH, KEYS, THEMES Password, public key, and keyboard-interactive auth. Generate Ed25519 or RSA keys in the app and copy the public key with one tap. Themes such as Dracula, Nord, and Tokyo Night; fonts such as Fira Code and JetBrains Mono, plus CJK fonts. SECURITY - Credentials stored encrypted on the device - Host key verification (pinned on first connection) - Lock the app with a PIN, Face ID, or Touch ID - No cloud sync, no telemetry, no account required

About

CodexBar Usage Monitor

This app consolidates AI usage, limits, and balances from various coding and assistant tools into a single dashboard. Track multiple accounts, view history, and receive alerts for supported providers. Credentials are stored locally for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • AI usage tracking
  • Limit and balance monitoring
  • Multiple account support
  • Provider configuration
  • Usage history and trends
  • Home/Lock Screen widgets
Features
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CodexBar Usage Monitor keeps your AI usage, limits, balances and refresh status in one iPhone and iPad dashboard. The free plan includes one active account from any supported provider, a customizable dashboard and seven days of history. CodexBar Pro Use all your saved accounts, configure Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and check usage on Apple Watch and its complications. Pro also includes usage alerts and up to 90 days of daily history. Choose a monthly subscription, a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. The yearly subscription offers seven days free to eligible customers. The app shows the price and billing period for your App Store region before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled in your Apple Account subscription settings. You can manage your subscription or restore purchases from Settings > CodexBar Pro. Lifetime Pro does not renew. Eligible purchasers of the original paid app keep lifetime Pro after Apple verifies their purchase. Supported providers: - ChatGPT / Codex - GitHub Copilot - GitHub Billing - Claude - Grok - X Subscription - Cursor - OpenRouter - OpenCode Go + Zen - Moonshot (Kimi) - Greptile - Google Gemini What you can track: - Usage limits, balances, reset times and refresh status where each provider makes those metrics available - GitHub personal and organization billing, included allowances, budgets and spending projections where supported - Gemini Apps and coding limits in one account, with separate five-hour and weekly metrics - Grok paid weekly usage and Extra Usage Credits where available, separately from Cursor's Grok Bot allowance - X Subscription's shared weekly pool, its reset, per-product details and Extra Usage Credits where available, with one xAI sign-in - Greptile completed-review activity and provider-returned free-allowance renewal dates, kept distinct from pull requests and billing credit balances Make the dashboard yours by showing, hiding, reordering, resizing and restyling individual metrics. Pro keeps work and personal accounts organized in provider groups. Widgets and Watch show saved snapshots; iOS and watchOS control background refresh timing. Setup stays on the iPhone. Privacy and account model: - No CodexBar account is required - Provider credentials stay on your device and are stored in Keychain where appropriate - Provider requests go directly from your device to the services you configure, not through a HemSoft backend - Widgets and Apple Watch receive presentation and access-validity snapshots, never provider credentials - Apple processes Pro purchases; CodexBar checks access on your device with StoreKit - Feedback is optional. You preview and choose whether to open a private email draft or a public GitHub report Provider metrics and authorization depend on the service, account, subscription and available permissions. Unavailable data stays unavailable. Greptile renewal dates require a verified dashboard session; fresh Google-backed billing sign-in or reconnection may be unavailable in this version. CodexBar is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the providers it displays. Provider names identify only the services you choose to connect. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://github.com/hemsoft-dev/codexbar-ios/blob/main/PRIVACY.md

Screenshots

SSH Term X4 screens
CodexBar Usage Monitor4 screens

Verdict

The call

SSH Term X and CodexBar Usage Monitor both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of SSH Term X's written reviews are positive against 0% of CodexBar Usage Monitor's. SSH Term X also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). CodexBar Usage Monitor's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On rating, 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

CodexBar Usage Monitor is free to download; SSH Term X costs $4.99 up front. SSH Term X sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and CodexBar Usage Monitor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SSH Term X against 5.0 for CodexBar Usage Monitor. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of SSH Term X's written reviews are positive against 0% of CodexBar Usage Monitor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SSH Term X ships an update every 2 days, CodexBar Usage Monitor every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SSH Term X versus CodexBar Usage Monitor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSSH Term XCodexBar Usage Monitor
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHaga KunihikoFranz Hemmer

Customer experience

SSH Term X

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

CodexBar Usage Monitor

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

SSH Term X

One-time5
  • Support Development$2.99
  • Support Development$5.99
  • Support Development$19.99
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  • Support Development$29.99
  • Support Development$59.99
3 purchases

CodexBar Usage Monitor

Subscriptions2
  • CodexBar Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • CodexBar Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • CodexBar Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is SSH Term X free?
SSH Term X costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is CodexBar Usage Monitor free?
CodexBar Usage Monitor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SSH Term X or CodexBar Usage Monitor?
SSH Term X and CodexBar Usage Monitor are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do SSH Term X or CodexBar Usage Monitor have ads?
Neither SSH Term X nor CodexBar Usage Monitor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SSH Term X or CodexBar Usage Monitor?
SSH Term X ships an update every 2 days, and CodexBar Usage Monitor every 2 weeks. Most recently, SSH Term X was updated on October 31, 2026 and CodexBar Usage Monitor on October 31, 2026.

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