CodexBar vs Limits
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CodexBar
Monitor your AI coding tool usage on your iPhone. Track rate limits, spending, and token usage for various AI providers. Share spending summaries as image cards and analyze costs with interactive charts.
- Real-time AI usage monitoring
- Budget and spending tracking
- Rate limit tracking with countdowns
- Cost dashboard and analysis
- Interactive charts and graphs
- Shareable spending summaries
- Open-source project
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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) adds iCloud sync and the iOS companion app. Contributions and feedback are welcome on GitHub.
Limits
Monitor your AI coding rate limits across multiple providers in one convenient dashboard. View session usage, weekly quotas, and reset timers with customizable widgets for at-a-glance updates. This app prioritizes privacy with on-device token storage and no tracking.
- AI rate limit monitoring
- Session usage tracking
- Weekly quota display
- Reset countdown timers
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- On-device token storage
- Supports Codex, Claude, Cursor
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Limits shows your AI coding rate limits at a glance. See session usage, weekly quotas, and reset timers for the providers you connect, all in one place. Connect with secure sign in. Limits never sends your tokens to a server. Your tokens stay on your device in the Keychain, and your usage is cached on device so the widgets can read it. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets keep your limits visible without opening the app. Live countdowns keep ticking between refreshes, so you always know how much you have left and when it resets. Supported providers: - Codex (ChatGPT) - Claude Code - Cursor - Grok - Antigravity Why you will like it: - One dashboard for every limit you care about - Ring and bar gauges that stay readable at a glance - Reset countdowns on your Home Screen and Lock Screen - Private by design, with no account required for Limits itself - No ads, no tracking, and no analytics Limits is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic, OpenAI, Anysphere, Google, xAI, or any other provider. Provider names are used only to identify the services you choose to connect. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/stdeula/ Questions or feedback: hi@pranavkarthik.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Limits at 4.5 against CodexBar's 3.8. Limits also leads on chart position (#35 vs unranked) and ratings volume (22 vs 4). CodexBar's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Limits sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. CodexBar asks for nothing beyond the download.
Limits holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Limits has 22 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of CodexBar's written reviews are positive against 70% of Limits's.
CodexBar ships an update every 6 days, Limits every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CodexBar | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.5 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #35 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 昱晓 王 | Pranav Karthik Mruthyunjayan |
Customer experience
CodexBar
Limits
In-app purchases
CodexBar
No in-app purchases
Limits
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly$6.991 Year
- Limits Pro$14.99





