Comparison

Limitr vs 42 Editor

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

Head to head
About

Limitr

Features
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Track your Claude, Cursor, and Codex subscription usage in one private, native iOS app. Limitr shows session, weekly, and monthly limits, reset times, and freshness at a glance. Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, choose your preferred refresh interval, and receive optional notifications as you approach a limit. Your credentials remain in the iOS Keychain on your device. Limitr has no account, no backend, no analytics, and does not sell or track your data. Provider usage data is retrieved directly from each service. Availability may change if providers update their systems.

About

42 Editor

Features
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42 Editor is a code and text editor for iPhone and iPad. It opens the files you already have, in the Files app, iCloud Drive, Working Copy, Dropbox or any other file provider, and saves your changes back to the same file. There is nothing to sign in to and nothing is uploaded. Sometimes the file that needs fixing is a config file, a script or a spreadsheet export, and the only device to hand is a phone. 42 Editor is made for those moments. EDIT IN PLACE • Open a file or a whole folder from any provider in the Files app. Your changes go back to the original. • Opened folders are remembered: create, rename, duplicate and delete files and folders inside them. • Recent files reopen with one tap. • Open in 42 Editor from the Files app and the share sheet. SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING FOR 29 LANGUAGES Python, Swift, JavaScript, TypeScript, C, C++, Objective-C, C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Dart, Lua, R, JSON, YAML, TOML, INI, XML, HTML, CSS, Markdown, Shell, SQL, Makefile and Dockerfile, in light and dark. Line numbers with the current line marked, and long lines that wrap or scroll sideways. A KEYBOARD ROW FOR CODE Tab and outdent, a comment toggle, cursor keys, undo and redo, and the brackets and symbols the iOS keyboard hides. Auto-indent, optional closing of brackets and quotes, and tabs or spaces at 2, 4 or 8 wide. FIND, REPLACE AND FORMAT • Find and Replace, Go to Line, toggle comment, and indent or outdent a selection. • Format or minify JSON, keeping the order of the keys. • Markdown and HTML preview, a tap away. CSV AND TSV AS A TABLE A grid with a pinned header row. Edit cell by cell; add, duplicate or delete rows and columns; sort, filter and undo. The raw text is one tap away. CAREFUL SAVING 42 Editor keeps each file's text encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16 or Windows-1252), its line endings and its final newline. It autosaves two seconds after you stop typing, and if another app changed the file in the meantime it stops and asks which version to keep. iPHONE AND iPAD System, light or dark appearance, font size from 9 to 32 pt, and ⌘S to save on a hardware keyboard. PRIVATE No account, no ads and no analytics. Your files stay on your device and in the providers you choose. 42 Editor is an editor, not a place to run code: it doesn't compile or run anything.

Screenshots

Limitr4 screens
42 Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 42 Editor at none against Limitr's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Limitr sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. 42 Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Limitr versus 42 Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLimitr42 Editor
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, MaciPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuuk Group OÜMohammed Shehada

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Limitr

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Buy Me a Coffee$2.99
  • Generous Tip$7.99
None

42 Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Limitr free?
Limitr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 42 Editor free?
42 Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Limitr or 42 Editor have ads?
Neither Limitr nor 42 Editor shows ads.

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