Comparison

Downburst vs Limi

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

Head to head
About

Downburst

Features
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Downburst is a download manager for iPhone and iPad that shows you the weather. Paste a link and the file starts falling. The whole queue is one screen: current speed as rainfall, a live graph of the last 45 seconds, and every transfer with its own progress, ETA and stream count. You can tell at a glance whether things are going well. CLOUDBURST Big files arrive in up to four parallel streams instead of one. Downburst opens byte ranges, checks the server honours them, pulls the parts at the same time and stitches them back together on arrival. Servers that do not support ranges fall back to a single stream without fuss. RESUME THAT ACTUALLY RESUMES Pause anything and pick it up later, byte for byte. Lose Wi-Fi mid-transfer and the queue waits for connectivity rather than starting over. Failures back off and retry on their own at 5s, 15s, 45s, 2m and 4m, then stop bothering you. IT KEEPS GOING WHEN YOU LEAVE Downloads continue while the app is closed, because they run on the system background transfer service rather than a timer that dies with the app. A Live Activity counts down on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, a Home Screen widget shows the queue, and a notification tells you when a file lands. THE INLET Paste a whole wall of text and Downburst pulls every link out of it. Each one gets a pre-flight check before it joins the queue: the real filename, the real size, and whether it can be resumed. Untick the ones you did not mean to grab. ARCHIVES, UNPACKED ZIP and RAR extract themselves when they land, multi-part sets included. Password-protected archives ask once, and remembered passwords live in the device keychain so the next one opens without asking. WATCH IT HERE Tap a video and it plays: hold to speed up, double tap to skip, drag for brightness and volume, pinch to fill, rotate with one tap even with the rotation lock on, pull it down by its top edge and keep browsing while it plays in a bar above the tabs. Subtitles from sidecar files or inside the file, chapters, a sleep timer, an A to B loop, AirPlay, Picture in Picture and Lock Screen controls. MP4, MOV and M4V play natively; MKV, AVI, WebM, FLV, TS, OGG and Opus play through VideoLAN's own engine, and Chromecast goes through it too. It remembers where you stopped. EVERYTHING LANDS IN FILES Finished downloads go to On My iPhone, Downburst, Downloads, visible in the Files app, or to any folder you choose there, iCloud Drive included, where a file uploads only once it has fully landed. Sorting rules file them into folders by type or by name. Preview them in place, zoom through images, share them onward, or find them from the Home Screen with Spotlight. A checksum published beside a file is checked on arrival. YOURS TO TUNE Set how many downloads run at once and how many connections may hit any one server. Allow or block cellular, or mark one enormous download Wi-Fi only. Servers that ask for a login get one, kept in your device's keychain and sent only to them. Lock the app behind Face ID. AT HOME ON EVERY SCREEN Two columns on iPad. Hold, release and check the queue from Shortcuts and Siri, or from buttons on the widget. Every control has a name for VoiceOver, every size follows Dynamic Type, and the rain holds still for Reduce Motion. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO Downburst downloads files from direct links. It does not save media from streaming or social platforms, and those hosts are blocked in the app by design. There are no torrents and no plugins. Download only what you own or have the rights to save. FREE, AND STAYING FREE Every feature above is in the free app: no paid tiers, no trials, nothing held back. Settings has an optional tip jar, and it unlocks nothing. No account, no analytics, no adverts, no tracking. Nothing you download passes through a server of mine, because there is not one.

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Limi

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Ever been cut off by a usage limit right in the middle of your work? Limi shows how much usage is left on your Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini subscriptions, and when it refills, all in one place. Check it at a glance with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, without opening the app. AT A GLANCE • 5-hour limit: how much is left and when it resets • Weekly limit: how much is left this week and when it resets • Which AI has the most room right now SUPPORTED SERVICES • Claude: plan usage limits • ChatGPT: Codex (coding agent) usage limits • Gemini: Gemini app usage limits The limits shown depend on what each service provides for your account. Plans without these limits may not show a value. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS • AI Usage Comparison: 5-hour usage left for your AIs, side by side • Recommended AI: the AI with the most usage left right now • AI Usage Gauge: one AI of your choice, big and clear (iOS 17 or later) • AI Usage Dashboard: circular gauges for every AI at once • Reset Countdown: limits in the order they reset • AI Usage Details: 5-hour and weekly usage left with reset times LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS • A circular gauge for each service • A two-line widget for each service: 5-hour and weekly usage left and time until reset • Sync Usage button: refresh without opening the app (iOS 17 or later) Tap a widget to jump straight to that AI. APPLE WATCH • See usage left in the Watch app, on watch faces and in the Smart Stack. AUTOMATIC REFRESH Your iPhone refreshes usage in the background from time to time, even when the app is closed. iOS decides how often, based on battery and other conditions. NOTIFICATIONS • Get notified when a limit you used heavily (35% or less left on the 5-hour or weekly limit) refills. • Get a heads-up 5 days and 1 day before your Claude login expires. • Get notified right away if a login expires. • Optionally hold night-time (midnight to 7 AM) notifications until 7 AM. YOUR PRIVACY • No developer server. Usage goes straight from each service to your iPhone. • We never ask for your password. You sign in on each service's own login page. • Login info is stored only in your iPhone's Keychain, encrypted. • No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Notifications are created on your iPhone. • Login info is used only to read usage. Limi never sends messages or uses up your usage. GOOD TO KNOW • Limi is an independent app and is not affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini are trademarks of their respective owners. • These aren't official integrations, so a change on a service's side may briefly stop them from working. We'll fix issues as quickly as we can. • Claude requires signing in again about once a month. • Requires iOS 16 or later. Some widgets require iOS 17 or later. Contact: sioninzion918@gmail.com

Screenshots

Downburst4 screens
Limi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Limi at none against Downburst's 5. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Downburst sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Limi asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Downburst ships an update every 8 days, Limi weekly. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Downburst versus Limi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDownburstLimi
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoham SadeghiSION NOH

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Downburst

One-time5
  • Drizzle tip$5.00
  • Shower tip$10.00
  • Downpour tip$25.00
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  • Storm tip$50.00
  • Monsoon tip$100.00
None

Limi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Downburst free?
Downburst is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Limi free?
Limi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Downburst or Limi have ads?
Neither Downburst nor Limi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Downburst or Limi?
Downburst ships an update every 8 days, and Limi weekly. Most recently, Downburst was updated on November 6, 2026 and Limi on November 6, 2026.

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