Limits vs Headroom by Kyle Zantos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Headroom by Kyle Zantos
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Headroom for Mac reads Claude, Codex, Grok and Cursor plan usage for accounts signed in through their official tools. This app shows the Mac’s readings on iPhone and iPad through your iCloud account. Each account has its own rows, with the account names you chose on your Mac. Rows show the percentage left and a short countdown to reset, such as 3d 23h. Rolling limits include 5-hour and weekly windows, plus model limits such as Claude’s Weekly (Fable). Grok shows a billing-period pool. Cursor separates Cursor Models and Other Models. Codex’s plan capsule shows banked resets when available. A number turns red when 15% or less is left. If you track API spend on the Mac, Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI spend appears below the plans for the current period. Home Screen widgets come in small, medium and large. Choose Nested Meter, Vessel Hero, Tightest First or Liquid Level in Edit Widget. Color can stay on or appear only when a limit runs low. Widgets follow the providers selected on your Mac and each provider’s main account. Lock Screen widgets show usage in circular, rectangular and inline layouts. Choose a style and provider in Edit Widget. The app follows your Mac’s meter style, with a phone override in Settings. On iPad, provider cards fill the width in columns. The app shows when your Mac last read the numbers. Siri and Shortcuts answer from the latest synced reading and include its age. Pull down on Usage to ask your Mac to check again. New readings appear after the Mac has checked and iCloud has synced them. Your iCloud summary contains account names you chose, plan names, usage, reset times, API spend, display choices, and random device IDs. Pull-to-refresh also sends check requests through iCloud. Passwords, sign-in tokens and API keys stay on the Mac. The summary uses iCloud key-value storage, which is not end-to-end encrypted. Read the privacy policy at headroom.zantos.co/privacy. To show your own usage, run Headroom 1.5 on your Mac, sign in to the same Apple Account on both devices, and turn on Sync usage to iPhone in the Mac app. Provider sign-ins stay on the Mac. Explore Demo lets you try the app and widgets with sample readings before setting up the Mac app. Get Headroom for Mac at headroom.zantos.co. Headroom is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI or Anysphere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Headroom by Kyle Zantos at none against Limits's 3. Limits's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and chart position (#46 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Headroom by Kyle Zantos asks for nothing beyond the download.
Limits ships an update every 3 days, Headroom by Kyle Zantos every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Limits | Headroom by Kyle Zantos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (42 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #46 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pranav Karthik Mruthyunjayan | Kyle Zantos |
In-app purchases
Limits
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly$6.991 Year
- Limits Pro$14.99
Headroom by Kyle Zantos
No in-app purchases









