Comparison

TokenBar Mobile vs TokenCounter

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

Head to head
About

TokenBar Mobile

Monitor your AI usage for Claude with real-time tracking of session limits, rate limits, and reset times. Get instant visual feedback on remaining capacity and receive alerts before hitting usage caps.

Highlights
  • Live usage tracking
  • Progress ring for capacity
  • Live Activities on Lock Screen/Dynamic Island
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • iCloud sync for authentication
  • Low usage alerts
  • Widget support
Features
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TokenBar shows how much AI usage you have left, and when you'll get it back, so you never get cut off mid-flow. YOUR LIMITS AT A GLANCE • Usage rings for every limit: session, weekly, model-specific and monthly • The limit that will stop you first is always front and center • A countdown to every reset • A forecast from your current pace: "at this pace, out at 13:10" (Pro) KNOW THE MOMENT IT'S BACK • Reset alerts the instant a limit refills: a notification, or an alarm that rings through silent mode (Pro) • A heads-up before you run low • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a "You're back" moment when your limit resets (Pro) EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including one that shows every provider at once (Pro) • Control Center controls to refresh or start live tracking • Apple Watch app with complications and a Smart Stack widget (Pro) • Set up once on your Mac and your providers appear here through iCloud 13 AI PROVIDERS Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, OpenAI (Admin API), OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Z.ai, Kimi, MiniMax, ElevenLabs, Synthetic and Warp. Track one for free, or all of them side by side with Pro. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your credentials stay in the Keychain and go straight to each provider. TokenBar has no accounts and no servers of its own. TOKENBAR PRO Pro unlocks reset alerts, Live Activity, widgets, the Apple Watch app, 90-day history and the limit forecast, every provider at once, your own warning threshold, and 1-minute refresh. A purchase on iPhone also unlocks TokenBar for Mac. • Yearly, with a 7-day free trial • Monthly • Lifetime: pay once Already using TokenBar? You keep every feature you had before Pro. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nikakirkitadze.github.io/TokenBar/privacy.html Requires accounts or API keys with the providers you want to track. TokenBar is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or any other AI provider.

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

TokenBar Mobile4 screens
TokenCounter2 screens

Verdict

The call

TokenBar Mobile and TokenCounter are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

TokenBar Mobile ships an update monthly, TokenCounter fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TokenBar Mobile versus TokenCounter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTokenBar MobileTokenCounter
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLevani KirkitadzeArunjeet Singh

In-app purchases

None

TokenBar Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

TokenCounter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TokenBar Mobile free?
TokenBar Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TokenCounter free?
TokenCounter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TokenBar Mobile or TokenCounter have ads?
Neither TokenBar Mobile nor TokenCounter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TokenBar Mobile or TokenCounter?
TokenBar Mobile ships an update monthly, and TokenCounter fortnightly. Most recently, TokenBar Mobile was updated on October 8, 2026 and TokenCounter on October 7, 2026.

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