Comparison

Limits vs AgentHeadroom

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

AgentHeadroom

Features
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Headroom for your agent quota. AgentHeadroom reads the usage limits on the AI accounts you already have, shows how fast you are spending them, and keeps the numbers current on the Lock Screen, in widgets, on iPad and in your Mac's menu bar — without opening anything. REFRESHED FROM ANYWHERE Each of these refreshes, and updates the widgets and the Live Activity: • A Control Center button, even when locked • A Lock Screen button, the Action button, Siri or a Shortcut • Automations: when you open Claude, ChatGPT or Codex, when the device goes on charge, or at a time of day • The refresh button on a widget, or the Live Activity's arrow, which can start the Live Activity with the app closed • On its own in the background, as often as iOS allows ON THE LOCK SCREEN, WITH THE APP CLOSED A Live Activity counts your five-hour window down to the second, with the spend it was last read at and how fast it is moving — and says so when the window resets. WHAT IT SHOWS • Every window at once — five-hour, weekly, and per-model — as a ring • Whether you are on pace, ahead, or burning, measured against the clock • A projection: at this rate, do you run out before the window resets? • Usage credits, in money • Counted from either end: what you have used, or what is left • Notifications for a threshold crossed, a reset ahead of schedule, and a session that needs signing in again WIDGETS Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets, and Lock Screen widgets, each on the account you choose. IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC One purchase for all three. On iPad: a readable column, every orientation, Split View and Slide Over. On the Mac: a menu bar item, a menu and desktop widgets. Turn on Share accounts with the Mac and your accounts arrive there through your iCloud Keychain — the Mac never signs in. Turn on Wake from Mac and the Mac nudges the phone the moment usage moves. FREE, AND PRO Free is one account with every feature. Pro adds as many accounts as you like, and accounts you already have keep working whatever happens: • AgentHeadroom Pro (Lifetime) — $14.99, paid once • AgentHeadroom Pro (Annual) — $7.99 a year, auto-renewing PRIVACY AgentHeadroom collects nothing. It has no server to collect it with. • Your usage numbers, and nothing else. Your conversations, your prompts and your code are never requested and never seen. • Your sign-in stays on this device, in the iOS Keychain, and never syncs or migrates from a backup. With Share accounts with the Mac on, it is kept in your iCloud Keychain instead — end-to-end encrypted, readable on your devices only, never seen by us — until you turn sharing off. • There is no AgentHeadroom account. No server, no sign-up. Two things go through Apple's iCloud, both yours to switch off: the sign-ins you share, in your iCloud Keychain, and while Wake from Mac is on, a one-line nudge from your Mac in your own iCloud account that says usage moved and carries no reading. • No analytics, no ads, no crash reporter. • Deleting an account erases its session, its readings and its history straight away. • You can check all of this. Point a network proxy at your phone and watch — the only hosts AgentHeadroom ever contacts are the providers whose accounts you added. AgentHeadroom is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any AI provider. Provider names appear only as labels for accounts you added yourself. TERMS Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. AgentHeadroom Pro (Annual) is a $7.99 auto-renewing subscription with a term of one year. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. AgentHeadroom Pro (Lifetime) is a one-time purchase of $14.99 and does not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://thirdvantage.com/eula/ Privacy Policy: https://thirdvantage.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Limits4 screens
AgentHeadroom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Limits at #131 against AgentHeadroom's unranked. AgentHeadroom's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Limits sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and AgentHeadroom sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Limits versus AgentHeadroom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLimitsAgentHeadroom
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#131 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPranav Karthik MruthyunjayanThird Vantage LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Limits

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Yearly$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Limits Pro$14.99
2 purchases

AgentHeadroom

Subscriptions1
  • Pro, yearly$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro, forever$14.99

Questions

Is Limits free?
Limits is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AgentHeadroom free?
AgentHeadroom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Limits or AgentHeadroom have ads?
Neither Limits nor AgentHeadroom shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Limits or AgentHeadroom?
Limits ships an update every 3 days, and AgentHeadroom every 3 days. Most recently, Limits was updated on September 30, 2026 and AgentHeadroom on September 25, 2026.

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