Comparison

Limits vs Clow

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Clow

Features
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Clow shows, at a glance, how much is left of your Claude Code usage windows — the 5-hour one and the weekly one — and projects when they should run out at the pace you are working. WHAT IT DOES • Both windows, always in view: percentage, gauge and a countdown to the reset. • An honest projection: "at this pace, you run out at 3:20 PM" — or the relief of "won't run out before the reset". • Alerts at 25%, 50%, 70% and 100% of each window, by notification. • A home screen widget that keeps projecting and counting between refreshes. • Trend: the history of the current window, with the projection dashed to the end. • Rhythm: which hours of the day burn the most quota, from today back to the last 30 days. • Panel mode: full screen in black to leave the phone propped on your desk, with the mascot alive, a giant number and a per-second countdown. • And Clow, a little robot whose mood shifts with your consumption — with a tab to work off the stress when the tokens run out. HOW IT WORKS The app queries the Anthropic API with a minimal request (about 9 tokens of your own quota) just to read your account's usage limit headers. That is where the percentages, the reset times and the status of each window come from. WHAT YOU NEED An account with access to Claude Code and a token you generate yourself, in your own terminal, with the command `claude setup-token`. The app creates no account, has no login and has no subscription of its own. JUST WANT A LOOK? Tap "Explore with sample data" on the first screen: the app opens in full with sample data, no token required. PRIVACY The token stays in your device's Keychain. Nothing is sent to us: the app talks only to the Anthropic API, about your own account. There are no ads, trackers or analytics. Not affiliated with Anthropic. Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC.

Screenshots

Limits4 screens
Clow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Limits at Free against Clow's $6.00. Limits also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and chart position (#138 vs unranked). Clow's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On ads and device support 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

Limits is free to download; Clow costs $6.00 up front. Limits sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Clow asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Limits ships an update every 3 days, Clow every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Limits versus Clow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLimitsClow
PriceFree — better$6.00
Rating4.3 (41 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings41 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#138 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB23 MB
Age rating4++9
DeveloperPranav Karthik MruthyunjayanXroaster

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Limits

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Yearly$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Limits Pro$14.99
None

Clow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Limits free?
Limits is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clow free?
Clow costs $6.00, with no in-app purchases.
Do Limits or Clow have ads?
Neither Limits nor Clow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Limits or Clow?
Limits ships an update every 3 days, and Clow every 2 months. Most recently, Limits was updated on October 25, 2026 and Clow on October 25, 2026.

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