AI Cockpit vs 42 Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
AI Cockpit
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Claude, ChatGPT & Codex, Copilot and six more AI services ā how much is left, and when it resets. On your iPhone, your iPad and your Apple Watch: the phone fetches everything itself, no Mac required. No browser cookies. No data collection. Your keys stay in this device's keychain and never travel to the watch. Free. No account with the publisher, no server in between. WHAT THE APP SHOWS ⢠Claude subscription: the 5-hour, 7-day and model-scoped weekly windows, each with a percentage and a reset time ⢠ChatGPT/Codex: the quotas of the signed-in account ⢠OpenAI API and Anthropic API: cost today, this month and in total ⢠Kimi: balance ⢠OpenRouter: spend, credit and the key's cap ⢠Grok (xAI): balance and spending cap ⢠DeepSeek: balance per currency ⢠GitHub Copilot: usage and quota ā personal paid plans only If one service fails, the rest carry on. (i) buttons explain every term. NO SURPRISES ⢠One sentence at the top says where you stand: "All in the green" or "Claude is getting tight today" ⢠A forecast under every window: "full at 16:40 at this pace" ā or that it lasts until the reset ⢠A tip when a window is nearly full and another plan or account still has room ⢠A plan check from your weekly peaks (Claude only, an estimate) ⢠Alerts at your threshold, before a five-hour window fills, when it starts over and when it resets off schedule ⢠A cost alert when API spend jumps or credit drains fast; a monthly budget ⢠A Live Activity with up to four windows on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island ⢠A control for Control Center, the Lock Screen and the Action button YOUR MONEY AND YOUR TIME ⢠Renewal dates: a note days before each plan renews, with the amount ⢠Reset alarm: one bell, one notification when a window is free again ⢠Today's share: "9% left for today so the week lasts" ⢠Quiet hours and "Pause until tomorrow" ā cost alerts may come through ⢠Your AI month: on the 1st, a review of what you spent and used, to share as an image ⢠Six shortcuts for Siri and the Shortcuts app Alerts are made on the device when the app fetches ā no server. In the background, iOS decides how often. WIDGETS ⢠One service or all, used or remaining ⢠Three sizes for the Home Screen; the large one adds the one-sentence status and today's share ⢠Tap a widget and the app opens that card ⢠Three shapes for the Lock Screen with a live countdown, also in StandBy; in a Smart Stack, AI Cockpit moves up when a window gets tight APPLE WATCH ⢠A verdict first: "Still fine", "Getting tight" or "Window full", and the window behind it ⢠A crown turn away: every source, one line each ⢠Complications in all four shapes The watch shows, it does not fetch: the figures come from the phone. YOUR LOOK Three color schemes ā Graphite, Deep Blue, Classic ā and a color per card, carried into widgets, watch and Live Activity. Share your status as an image, account names hidden. WHAT YOU NEED For each card the matching plan, API key or account. All optional: without one, only that card stays empty. Demo mode shows the whole app with sample figures. The app speaks English, German, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Hindi. Runs on iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and watchOS 10; the control from iOS 18, on the watch from watchOS 26. WHAT THE APP DOES NOT DO No registration, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. The in-app purchase is a voluntary tip that unlocks nothing. It never reads your chats; it fetches quotas and amounts, nothing else. Settings and figures stay on the device; every connection uses HTTPS and goes straight to the service you added. DISCLAIMER AI Cockpit is an independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI, Moonshot AI, OpenRouter, xAI, DeepSeek or GitHub. Their names appear because their figures do.
42 Editor
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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 āS 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 42 Editor at none against AI Cockpit'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
Both are free to download. AI Cockpit sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. 42 Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | AI Cockpit | 42 Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch ā better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Albert Frick | Mohammed Shehada |
In-app purchases
AI Cockpit
- Espresso$1.99
- Cappuccino$5.99
- Dinner$9.99
42 Editor
No in-app purchases









