UsageLens vs UsageNow

UsageLens puts your AI usage in one place: a single dashboard and a configurable Home Screen widget that shows how much of your allowance you have used. The main view is a quota ring, not a battery icon. One glance tells you where you stand. FOUR WAYS TO TRACK • OpenAI Platform — connect an organization Admin API key and follow total tokens, model requests, or spend in USD through the official organization usage and cost endpoints. • Anthropic Claude Platform — connect an organization Admin API key and follow total tokens, requests, or cost through the official Usage and Cost Admin API. • Custom REST — point UsageLens at any authorized HTTPS endpoint that returns JSON. Map used, limit, remaining, reset time and cost with simple paths such as quota.used or data[0].usage. Ideal for an internal AI gateway or a broker service. • Manual tracker — for plans with no reporting API, keep your own count. Update it in the app or with the "Log AI Usage" Shortcut, without opening the app. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE • Dashboard with overall quota pressure across every provider you track. • Per-provider detail: used, limit, remaining, reset time, cost, request count and input/output token breakdown. • Usage history chart once two samples have been collected. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets in four sizes, showing one provider or your overall pressure, as a percentage, remaining or used. • Threshold warnings at 70%, 85% and 95% of any limit you set. BUILT TO KEEP YOUR KEYS SAFE • API keys are stored in the iOS Keychain and are never written to the file the widget reads. • The widget is read-only and cannot reach your credentials. • Custom endpoints are HTTPS only, with request timeouts and a 2 MB response cap. • Error messages never echo your keys or authorization headers. • Privacy mode hides exact amounts in widgets while keeping the quota ring visible. • No account, no analytics, no tracking. Your data stays on your device. WHAT USAGELENS DOES NOT DO Please read this before buying into expectations it cannot meet. The OpenAI and Anthropic connectors report usage for an API organization. They do not report ChatGPT or Claude consumer subscription message allowances, because those providers do not publish an API for them — Anthropic's Admin API is explicitly unavailable to individual accounts. If you want to follow a consumer plan, use a manual tracker, or point the Custom REST connector at an endpoint you control. UsageLens does not read other apps, does not scrape provider websites, and never asks for your browser cookies or session tokens. It reads official APIs, endpoints you configure yourself, and numbers you enter by hand. A quota limit is a budget you define. It may not match the limit your provider enforces for billing. Background refresh is best effort. iOS decides when background work and widget updates actually run; pull to refresh in the app is always immediate. REQUIREMENTS An OpenAI or Anthropic organization Admin API key is required for those connectors. Custom REST needs an endpoint you are authorized to call. Manual trackers need nothing at all.

Hit your AI limit halfway through a task? UsageNow shows how much of each AI plan you have left and exactly when it resets, right on your Home Screen, and warns you before you run out. Built for developers who code with AI agents every day. EVERY LIMIT AT A GLANCE Claude: the 5-hour session and weekly limits, including per-model weekly caps ChatGPT Codex: the 5-hour and weekly windows GitHub Copilot: premium requests, chat and code completions Gemini: daily request quotas for each model A live countdown to every reset, plus the exact reset time in your local format ALERTS BEFORE YOU HIT THE WALL Make your own alerts: choose the 5-hour limit, the weekly limit or all limits, then type the percentage that matters to you, like 90 or 98. Add as many as you like. Each alert comes once per limit and cycle, so your lock screen stays quiet. Turn on a reset alert to know the moment a limit is back. WIDGETS THAT DO MORE Flip through all of your accounts right on the widget Tap to refresh a widget whenever you want the latest numbers Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets in every size, plus Apple Watch complications ALL YOUR ACCOUNTS, IN YOUR ORDER Work and personal, Pro and Max, side by side. Sort by 5-hour reset, weekly reset, highest or lowest usage, name or service, or drag accounts into your own order. EVERYWHERE YOU WORK iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. PRIVATE BY DESIGN You sign in on each service's own login page. Your sign-in stays in your device's Keychain, and UsageNow talks only to the services themselves. There is no UsageNow server, no account to create and no tracking. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Fully translated into 50 languages, with dates and times written the way your region writes them. Pick a language in Settings anytime. FREE FOR ONE ACCOUNT See one account's current usage free in the app. UsageNow Pro unlocks more accounts, usage alerts, widgets and Apple Watch with a single one-time purchase. No subscription. UsageNow is an independent app and is not affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, Microsoft or Google. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Gemini are trademarks of their respective owners. Questions or ideas? hourstag.app@gmail.com Optimized for iPhone Duo. Unfold it and use it in landscape, and the inner display switches to a two-column layout made for the extra space, instead of a stretched-out phone screen. Fold it back and the app carries on in its single-column layout on the outer display.