Comparison

Charge vs AgStatus

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

Head to head
About

Charge

Track your AI coding usage and costs across various providers directly from your iPhone. Monitor your remaining time, weekly caps, and daily spending with at-a-glance widgets and detailed dashboards. Setup is quick, and privacy is prioritized with no access to your code or conversations.

Highlights
  • Rate-limit gauges per provider
  • Burn-rate forecasts
  • Cost dashboard (daily, weekly, monthly)
  • Plan badges and account separation
  • Multi-computer support
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Streak heatmap and cost trend
Features
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Charge shows your AI coding usage and cost on your iPhone. "How much of my 5-hour window is left?", "Am I close to the weekly cap?", "What did I spend today?" Check it away from your desk, or from Windows, in a glance. Setup takes two minutes. Sign in with Apple, paste the one-line command the app shows you into your computer's terminal, and a lightweight collector securely uploads your usage every five minutes. (Node.js 18+, macOS / Windows / Linux) WHAT YOU GET β€’ Rate-limit gauges per provider: Claude and Codex out of the box, plus Gemini, Cursor, Copilot, OpenRouter and more through the macOS CodexBar bridge. Reset countdowns included. β€’ Burn-rate forecasts that warn before you hit a wall: "at this pace you'll run out in about 4 hours." β€’ Cost dashboard: today / 7-day / 30-day spend and tokens, a daily chart, and a per-model cost ranking. β€’ Plan badges and account separation: your plan (Max 20x, Education, ...) is detected automatically, and machines signed in with different accounts get their own cards. β€’ Multi-computer support: see which machine last reported and when, get a heads-up when one stops collecting, swipe to unpair. β€’ Limit-reset notifications and custom gauge thresholds. β€’ Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, with per-provider and per-account layouts. β€’ Streak heatmap and 14-day cost trend. PRIVACY Charge never sees your prompts, code, or conversations. The collector reads only usage counters and cost data from your local tools and uploads them under your own Apple ID. Unpair a computer any time and its token is revoked immediately. Charge is open source: github.com/baekdusan/charge

About

AgStatus

Features
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AgStatus turns your phone into a live status board for the AI coding agents running on your computer. Long-running agents all behave the same way: they work for a few minutes, then quietly stop and wait for you. AgStatus puts every session on one screen β€” what each one is doing right now, how long it has been silent, and which ones are stuck β€” so you can step away from the keyboard without losing the thread. HOW IT WORKS A small open-source hook on your computer posts an update whenever an agent starts a session, edits a file, runs tests, or needs your input. Your board is a private URL with an unguessable token: no account, no sign-up, no email address. Connect your computer by scanning a QR code, typing a short pairing code, or pasting the board URL. ON THE BOARD β€’ One card per session, color-coded through six states: idle, planning, coding, testing, blocked, done β€’ The last thing the agent reported β€” the file it is editing, the test command it ran, the approval it is waiting for β€’ Blocked cards glow; finished and long-silent ones fade, so the sessions that need you stand out β€’ Updates stream in as they happen β€” no polling, no refresh button β€’ Swipe a card away when you are done with it β€’ Keep-screen-awake option for when the board lives on a desk or a shelf PLAN LIMITS AT A GLANCE Usage bars sit above the board: the current session window, the weekly cap, and per-model weekly caps, each with a percentage and a β€œresets in 2h 15m” countdown that stays current. Bars run green, then amber, then red as a limit approaches, and only the agents actually running on your board take up space. SESSION HISTORY Tap any card to open its timeline: every status change and message that session reported, newest first, with timestamps. BUILT FOR PRIVACY β€’ No accounts, no analytics, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs β€’ The app talks only to the board server you point it at β€’ Your board URL and token are stored in the iOS Keychain on your device β€’ Delete a board and everything on it from Settings, whenever you want β€’ The hook has a minimal mode that reports tool names only and never command text, and plan-usage reporting can be switched off NOTIFICATIONS The app supports opt-in alerts for the moment an agent is blocked or finishes a run. The toggles become available when the server hosting your board is set up to send notifications, and the app says so plainly when it is not. OPEN SOURCE AND SELF-HOSTABLE The server, the command-line tool, the hook, and this app are open source under the MIT license. Point the app at the hosted service or at a server you run yourself β€” the whole backend is a single process, and every screen in the app works the same either way. TRY IT BEFORE YOU SET ANYTHING UP Tap β€œTry the demo” on the welcome screen for a fully populated board β€” sample sessions moving through their states, usage bars, and timelines. Demo mode runs entirely on your device and sends nothing anywhere. Designed for iPhone with a dark interface. Showing real sessions requires a computer running a compatible coding agent. AgStatus is an independent open-source project that works with the hook systems of Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic or OpenAI. All product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Screenshots

Charge3 screens
AgStatus4 screens

Verdict

The call

Charge and AgStatus are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Charge ships an update every 3 weeks, AgStatus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Charge versus AgStatus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChargeAgStatus
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeβ€”
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad β€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDusan BaekInal Kardanov

In-app purchases

None

Charge

No in-app purchases

None

AgStatus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Charge free?
Charge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AgStatus free?
AgStatus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Charge or AgStatus have ads?
Neither Charge nor AgStatus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Charge or AgStatus?
Charge ships an update every 3 weeks, and AgStatus every 2 weeks. Most recently, Charge was updated on September 15, 2026 and AgStatus on September 30, 2026.

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