Comparison

CodexBar vs TokenCounter

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

Head to head
About

CodexBar

Monitor your AI coding tool usage on your iPhone. Track rate limits, spending, and token consumption for various AI providers in real-time. Share spending summaries and analyze cost breakdowns with interactive charts.

Highlights
  • Real-time AI usage monitoring
  • Rate limit tracking with countdowns
  • Budget and spending analysis
  • Interactive cost charts
  • Shareable spending summaries
  • Provider and model cost breakdowns
Features
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CodexBar for iOS lets you monitor your AI coding tool usage on the go. View rate limits, spending, token usage, and budget tracking for providers like Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and OpenRouter — all synced from your Mac in real time via iCloud. Requires the CodexBar Mac app — this iOS app is a companion that reads usage data pushed by CodexBar on your Mac. Install the Mac app first, enable iCloud Sync in its settings, and your data will appear on your iPhone automatically. Features: • Share your AI spending as a beautiful image card with Classic or Vibe style options • Export share cards for Today, 7 Days, or 30 Days, with dark mode support • Real-time rate limit tracking with reset countdowns, budget progress, and daily cost breakdowns • Cost dashboard with provider share, model and service mix, and 30-day spend analysis • Interactive charts with Bar and Line styles, press-and-hold inspection, and horizontal scrolling for history • Daily spend and token usage views with clearer summaries and sharper breakdown amounts • Sharper percentage and cost labels across provider cards and tighter layouts for easier reading • Toggle between used and remaining quota display in Settings • Smarter chart axis scaling with clean integer tick marks for easier reading • Improved iCloud sync reliability, better error reporting, pull-to-refresh, and built-in onboarding guidance Open Source CodexBar is built on the open-source CodexBar project, licensed under MIT. This fork (github.com/o1xhack/CodexBar-Mobile) adds iCloud sync and the iOS companion app. Contributions and feedback are welcome on GitHub.

About

TokenCounter

Features
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TokenCounter is the simplest way to keep tabs on what your Anthropic API account is costing this month — without giving up your privacy. Paste your Admin API key once, and the app fetches live cost data straight from Anthropic to your iPhone. You'll see: • Month-to-date spend across your whole organization • Today's intra-day cost estimate (Anthropic's daily report only closes yesterday's bucket; we add a token-priced estimate of today) • Breakdown by model • Quick visual sense of whether you're under, on track, or over your usual monthly burn • A monthly spend limit you set on-device, with a gauge that warns as you approach it • An optional alert the first time you cross 90% of your limit in a month TokenCounter does not have a server. The app talks directly from your iPhone to api.anthropic.com using your key. Nothing about your account, key, usage, or cost ever passes through any third party — including us. WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT • No account to create. • No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising SDKs, no third-party trackers. Zero. • Your Admin API key is stored only in the iOS Keychain on this device, protected by Face ID / Touch ID / your passcode. • One-tap "Disconnect" in Settings wipes the key from Keychain. • Native SwiftUI, no web views for data, no bloated frameworks. WHAT YOU NEED TokenCounter reads from Anthropic's Admin API, which requires: 1. An organizational Anthropic account (admin keys aren't available on individual accounts). 2. An Admin API key. The onboarding flow walks you through creating both. If you already have them, it's about 30 seconds to be up and running. WHO IT'S FOR Developers, founders, and ML engineers who use Anthropic's API every day and want a fast way to check spend without logging into the Console on the web. Especially useful if you're testing prompts that could rack up cost quickly and you want a glanceable number on your home screen. PRIVACY See maximumimpact.studio/tokencounter/privacy for the full policy. TL;DR: we don't collect any data because we have nowhere to put it.

Screenshots

CodexBar4 screens
TokenCounter2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CodexBar at every 3 days against TokenCounter's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CodexBar ships an update every 3 days, TokenCounter fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CodexBar versus TokenCounter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCodexBarTokenCounter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer昱晓 王Arunjeet Singh

In-app purchases

None

CodexBar

No in-app purchases

None

TokenCounter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CodexBar free?
CodexBar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TokenCounter free?
TokenCounter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CodexBar or TokenCounter have ads?
Neither CodexBar nor TokenCounter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CodexBar or TokenCounter?
CodexBar ships an update every 3 days, and TokenCounter fortnightly. Most recently, CodexBar was updated on October 31, 2026 and TokenCounter on October 25, 2026.

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