Esque Agent vs Codex Live Bar

Esque is a pocket-sized project manager for the agentic coder running on your laptop. Plan, prompt, and review your build from anywhere — your phone does the thinking, your desktop agent does the typing. WHAT ESQUE DOES • Plans your project as a 5-step roadmap the moment you describe it. • Writes the next prompt for your coding agent for you. You tap Send. • Pairs to a local Claude Code, OpenAI Codex (ChatGPT), or Aider session on your laptop via a QR code from the open-source esque-bridge CLI. Your prompts run on YOUR subscription, never per-token API rates. • Sync Repository — your agent describes what's in your repo, Esque tunes every future prompt to fit. • Continuity Mode — once synced, prompts become surgical edits with a "commit before changes" guardrail. • Multimodal — attach a screenshot of a bug or a Figma design; Esque tells the agent exactly what to change and where. • Multi-agent — run Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Aider projects side-by-side, each in its own session. WHO IT'S FOR Developers who already have a Claude, ChatGPT (Codex), or Aider setup, and want to drive their coding agent from the train, the couch, a meeting, or anywhere except in front of their laptop. PRO PLAN — $4.99/MONTH • Unlimited project sessions, 500 AI-planned prompts/month, 40 screenshot reviews/month. • Continuity Mode, Auto-Pilot, no ads, priority quota. • Free plan: 30 prompts/month and 3 screenshot reviews, with banner + occasional interstitial ads. Cancel any time in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. REQUIRES Apple Sign In on first launch. A laptop running esque-bridge (free, npm) to actually drive an agent — install with one terminal command. PRIVACY Prompts go to Google Gemini (planning) and to the laptop bridge URL you paired with (execution). The bridge runs on YOUR machine; we never see what your local agent does. Full policy at the link below. TERMS Esque Pro is an auto-renewing monthly subscription at the price shown in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation, and it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://esque-backend-production.up.railway.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://esque-backend-production.up.railway.app/privacy

Keep Codex limits visible while you work. Codex Live Bar shows session, weekly, and model-specific usage in a focused Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Create two private Shortcuts automations and the Live Activity can appear when ChatGPT opens and disappear when it closes. Refresh from the app, Shortcuts, or the Live Activity itself. Everything runs on your device. Authentication tokens stay in the iOS Keychain, usage is fetched directly from OpenAI, and there are no analytics, ads, tracking, accounts, or developer servers. Codex Live Bar is an independent client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI. The app relies on an undocumented OpenAI endpoint that may change.