Usage Device Monitor vs Data Remaining
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Usage Device Monitor
Monitor your device's data usage, network speed, memory, and storage with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. Get detailed hardware specifications and compare them with other models. Enjoy a simple, intuitive design with no subscriptions.
- Data usage tracking (monthly and daily)
- Real-time network connection monitoring
- Memory allocation by category
- Storage usage
- Battery graph
- Device hardware specifications
- Customizable home and lock screen widgets
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Usage is a tool to monitor your device's activity, data usage, connection speed, and more. It comes with 21 Home Screen widgets, fully customizable Super widgets, and new Lock Screen widgets! √ Main features: - Monthly and daily Data usage tracking - Real-time Network Connection monitoring, with Receiving and Sending speed - Precise Memory allocation by four categories - Storage usage - Battery Graph - Detailed specification about the device's hardware - The widgets! Beautiful and fully customizable. √ Extra features: - List of current network interfaces with details and IP addresses - Different appearance colors and app icons - Custom ordering - Compare your device's specification with any other iPhone or iPad model ever made - Old-style iOS 13 widgets (not available with iOS 18). √ No subscriptions! √ Simple, intuitive, and modern design. √ Built with SwiftUI! √ Thousands of users love the app. You might fall in love with it too!
Data Remaining
Monitor your mobile and Wi-Fi data consumption with this app. Set your monthly plan and reset day to visualize usage patterns and carry over unused data. Get real-time insights with graphical displays and a home screen widget.
- Tracks mobile and Wi-Fi usage
- Graphical display of traffic
- Customizable data reset day
- Carryover remaining data
- Home screen widget
- Background updates
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Data Remaining is an app that tracks your data usage. Just set your monthly data plan, and the app will automatically monitor your usage. Features - Visualizes your remaining data on a graph - Tracks both mobile and Wi-Fi usage - Graphical display of hourly and daily traffic - Configurable data plan - Choose your data reset day from 1st to 31st - Carryover settings (supports per-carrier rules such as 100 MB increments) - Keeps a history of past usage - Background updates (note: not available if the app is force-closed) - Widgets (Home Screen and Lock Screen) - Remove the ad banner with an in-app purchase Data Remaining PRO (subscription) - Forecasts your data usage to month-end and shows a pace indicator (on-track / over-pace) - Medium Home Screen widget (usage trend, forecast, pace) - Lock Screen widgets (days remaining, today's and this month's usage by Wi-Fi and cellular) - Removes the ad banner Note This app measures data based on records stored on your device. The numbers may differ from your carrier's official usage data. Please use the app with this in mind. Terms of Use (EULA): https://rigato.co.jp/giga/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://rigato.co.jp/giga/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Usage Device Monitor at 4.6 against Data Remaining's 4.1. Usage Device Monitor also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (60% vs 32%). Data Remaining's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Usage Device Monitor sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Data Remaining sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Usage Device Monitor holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Usage Device Monitor has 3.9K ratings behind it against 50, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Usage Device Monitor's written reviews are positive against 32% of Data Remaining's.
Usage Device Monitor ships an update every 2 months, Data Remaining every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Usage Device Monitor | Data Remaining |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.9K ratings) — better | 4.1 (50 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.3% of reviews — better | 32.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.9K — better | 50 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oleh Stasula | Rigato inc |
Customer experience
Usage Device Monitor
Data Remaining
Bugs and requests
Usage Device Monitor
Reported bugs
4 issues- Spec, Config, and About tabs not working
- Widgets not updating frequently
- Widgets not displaying data correctly
- App crashing when changing color theme
Requested features
5 requests- Add real-time connection and network speed widget
- Improve data usage tracking and reporting
- Add thermal state monitoring
- Combine current and previous version into one app
- Allow setting data limits and alerts
Data Remaining
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Usage Device Monitor
- Compare UnlockFree
- Kind Tip$0.99
- Nice Surprise$1.99
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- Massive Support$3.99
- Usage Pro$3.99
- Usage Pro$5.99
Data Remaining
- Giga PRO Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Giga PRO Yearly7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Remove Ad Banner$2.99
- Giga PRO Lifetime$14.99
Questions
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