Comparison

OSCope vs Runlow

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

Head to head
About

OSCope

Features
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OSCope is a simple field-debugging tool for checking OSC (Open Sound Control) over UDP, right on the spot. Ideal for verifying connections with TouchDesigner, Max, Unity, openFrameworks and more. No server, no account, no data collection — just open and go. FEATURES - Real-time OSC receive log (time, address, type tag, arguments) - Per-address scope charts (int / float / bool) - Per-address value meters (0..1 values shown as a bar) - Log filter (by address / value) - Pause and Clear for the display - Record incoming messages and export (Data tab / CSV / JSON) - Manually send any OSC message (int / float / string / bool) - Signal-generator send (fixed / sine / noise / Perlin noise / toggle, auto-repeat) - Save and recall named presets of your send modules - Quick Send buttons (e.g. /test/ping) - Saved settings: receive port, target IP and port - Always-on analog clock for timing during shows - Portrait & landscape layouts, dark instrument-style UI GREAT FOR - Quickly confirming OSC connectivity in installations and live shows - Seeing whether OSC sent from a desktop tool reaches your phone - Watching incoming values as waveforms and recording them to review later - Sending OSC triggers and test signals (GO / RESET, etc.) from your phone CONNECTING WITH TOUCHDESIGNER - Receive: send from TouchDesigner's OSC Out to OSCope's shown IP and receive port (e.g. 8000) - Send: set OSCope's target to TouchDesigner's receive IP and port NOTE Uses UDP on your local network; iOS will ask for Local Network permission on first use. Communicates with devices on the same network/subnet. Receiving supports OSC Bundles; supported types are int / float / string / bool.

About

Runlow

Monitor your AI service token limits and spending across multiple providers in real-time. View usage at a glance with live activities, dynamic island integration, and customizable widgets. Stay informed with notifications before hitting limits.

Highlights
  • Real-time AI usage tracking
  • Live Activities and Dynamic Island integration
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Service status indicators
  • Customizable meters and notifications
  • Mac menu bar app
  • Private by design, no account needed
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Runlow shows how much of your AI usage you have left — on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, in widgets, on your watch and in your Mac's menu bar — before you run out. Connect the services you pay for and every limit becomes a colour-coded meter that fills from green to red as you use it, with the time until it resets beside it. WHAT IT TRACKS • Claude — your 5-hour session, weekly caps and per-model lanes, across as many accounts as you have, plus extra-usage credits • Codex (ChatGPT) — your plan's limits • Gemini CLI — your quota • Cursor — plan usage • GitHub Copilot — premium requests • OpenRouter — credit balance, key spend, and what you spent today, this week and this month THE LOCK SCREEN CARD Pin up to eight meters to your Lock Screen as a Live Activity. Choose the headline meter, how big the top row is, how many meters fit, whether every meter gets a bar, and where the refresh button and the "updated" stamp sit. Reset times can count down live. The Dynamic Island shows the number you pick on each side, and expands to as many as six meters. A SETUP WIZARD One question at a time, with your own card in front of you the whole way: which meters, how big, the bars, the typeface, the background, how the numbers read. It takes about a minute, and Cancel puts everything back. WIDGETS Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets — the large one holds up to twelve meters, each with its bar — and rectangular, circular and inline Lock Screen widgets. Long-press a widget to choose which meters it shows, and tap its refresh button for fresh numbers. MAKE IT YOURS Seven themes, one tap each, that follow light and dark on their own. Nine typefaces. Bars in one piece or in blocks like a fuel gauge. Colour bars by the theme, by usage, by usage as a gradient along the bar, or give any meter its own colour and gradient. A glass, black, light or custom-coloured background. Name any meter, hide the ones you do not need, and put the rest in your order. Numbers as used or as what is left. ON YOUR MAC Runlow lives in the menu bar: the number sits next to the clock, and a click drops down every limit. Put as many meters in the menu bar as you like, side by side or stacked, and right-click any meter to add it or take it out. The Mac has the same themes, bars and setup wizard. ON YOUR WRIST Your focus meter on Apple Watch, in your theme, with its own settings page and a live preview. THE DASHBOARD Full-screen mode turns an iPad or iPhone into a wall of live meters for the desk. Landscape lays every limit out as tiles. History charts every meter over time, with an optional forecast — "at this pace, tomorrow around 11:14" — worked out from your own readings. A payments log tracks what you pay each service, with CSV export. A credit calculator does the sum after a top-up. Notifications warn you before you hit a wall and tell you the moment a limit resets, and service status flags when a provider is having an outage. ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Your settings can follow you to your other devices through your own iCloud — colours, themes, meter names and order, the Lock Screen layout — and you choose what travels. Off unless you turn it on. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Runlow has no account and no server. You connect your own provider accounts, and everything — your keys and your usage — stays on your device and goes only to the provider's own servers. Nothing is sent to us. Want a look first? Turn on Demo Mode to explore with sample data. One purchase covers your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro. Runlow is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cursor, GitHub or OpenRouter.

Screenshots

OSCope4 screens
Runlow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Runlow at every 2 days against OSCope's every 5 days. Runlow also leads on chart position (#166 vs unranked) and device support (5 vs 3). OSCope's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

OSCope costs $1.99 and Runlow $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OSCope ships an update every 5 days, Runlow every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
OSCope versus Runlow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOSCopeRunlow
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
Best chart rank—#166 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEvenrain Inc.LEON NELIO FIGUEIRA

In-app purchases

None

OSCope

No in-app purchases

None

Runlow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OSCope free?
OSCope costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Runlow free?
Runlow costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do OSCope or Runlow have ads?
Neither OSCope nor Runlow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OSCope or Runlow?
OSCope ships an update every 5 days, and Runlow every 2 days. Most recently, OSCope was updated on September 22, 2026 and Runlow on September 25, 2026.

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