Comparison

Codex Meter vs CekTerm

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

Head to head
About

Codex Meter

Features
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Codex Meter puts your Codex allowance where it is easy to checkβ€”on your iPhone, iPad, and Home Screen. Sign in with your existing OpenAI account to see your current five-hour and weekly usage windows, upcoming reset times, plan status, and earned reset credits. Clear visual meters make the important numbers easy to understand without repeatedly opening a browser. FEATURES Five-hour and weekly Codex allowance meters Locally updating reset countdowns Earned reset-credit inventory and expiry information Confirmation before reset-credit redemption Home Screen and accessory widgets Optional refill, credit increase, and credit expiry notifications Background refresh and offline display of the latest successful update Offline demo mode for exploring the interface without signing in PRIVATE BY DESIGN Codex Meter has no analytics, advertising, developer-operated account system, or relay server. Credentials stay in Apple Keychain, and authenticated requests go directly from your device to OpenAI. Codex Meter is an independent, unofficial client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI. ChatGPT and Codex are trademarks of their respective owners.

About

CekTerm

Features
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Carry your remote tmux session in your pocket. Close the app; the work keeps running. CekTerm is an SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad. It never owns your work β€” the real thing is the tmux session on the remote host, and the app is just a client you can throw away and reattach at any time. So switching apps, running out of battery, losing signal underground, even swiping the app out of the multitasking list: that build, training run, deploy or AI agent is still going. Open it again and the screen picks up exactly where you left off. Features β€’ Sessions live in remote tmux Disconnects, app switches and dead batteries do not matter β€” come back, attach to the same session, and the half-finished work is still there. β€’ Local scrollback, scrolling never hits the network tmux control mode returns a linear output stream, so history is stored on the phone and scrolling back feels like scrolling any other page. β€’ Session names stay on the phone If the remote tmux session is gone, its entry remains in the list β€” one tap rebuilds it with the same name and settings. β€’ Keys are generated on the device Ed25519 or ECDSA, straight into the Keychain β€” no copying a private key across machines, which is where keys usually leak. β€’ Input built for a phone A dedicated row for Ctrl/Alt/arrows, frequent commands as reorderable tabs, and floating Enter and clear buttons you can drag anywhere. β€’ An exit key that reads the context It asks the remote what is running first: q for less, Ctrl-D for python, Ctrl-C twice for an agent β€” and for vim it asks whether to save. β€’ Pick the remote folder and shell Browse the remote directory tree while creating a session; the shell list is read from that host, so you do not have to remember paths. β€’ Upload files over SFTP Send several files at once to any remote folder and leave the page while it transfers. The file only appears at its final path once complete, so an interruption never leaves half a file behind. β€’ Voice input Speak a line, get text, review it before sending β€” or run it straight away. Long commands are painful to type on a phone. β€’ Six interface languages and multiple themes The interface language is independent of the system setting, and the terminal has six colour schemes of its own. Security β€’ Private keys, passphrases and passwords live in the Keychain, readable only after the device is unlocked, and never leave this device via iCloud Keychain or encrypted backups. β€’ Host keys use TOFU: the key is recorded on first connect and must match exactly every time after; a mismatch aborts the connection and shows both fingerprints. β€’ Biometric lock: protect the app with Face ID or Touch ID and lock it the moment it goes to the background. β€’ Remote clipboard reads are refused: OSC 52 is implemented for writing only and never answers a read query. β€’ Settings export contains no private keys or passwords β€” those stay in the Keychain. What you need A remote host you are authorised to log into, with tmux installed (Linux or macOS). Please use Ed25519 keys: RSA private keys can no longer authenticate against OpenSSH 8.8 and later. This app does not try to be a full SFTP browser or a port-forwarding tool β€” a desktop SSH client is better at those. It focuses on one thing: watching a long-running session from a phone.

Screenshots

Codex Meter1 screens
CekTerm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Codex Meter at none against CekTerm's shown. CekTerm's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Codex Meter versus CekTerm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCodex MeterCekTerm
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDailyDaily
AdsNo β€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size3 MB18 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperFilip BukovinaεΌ΅ 文展

In-app purchases

None

Codex Meter

No in-app purchases

None

CekTerm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Codex Meter free?
Codex Meter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CekTerm free?
CekTerm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Codex Meter or CekTerm have ads?
CekTerm shows ads; Codex Meter does not.
Which is updated more often, Codex Meter or CekTerm?
Codex Meter ships an update daily, and CekTerm daily. Most recently, Codex Meter was updated on September 22, 2026 and CekTerm on August 30, 2026.

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