If you pay for more than one coding agent, you already know the shape of the problem. Claude has a five-hour window and a weekly one. Codex has a weekly quota with reset credits, and a session window on some plans. Cursor counts usage and spend limits. Each of them reports on a different dashboard, each resets on its own schedule, and none of them is on the phone in your pocket.
Nowdex is an app built around that gap. It collects the remaining usage and reset times of the services you already pay for and puts them on an iPhone Home Screen, a Mac menu bar, or a Windows notification area — no Mac left running, no dashboard to open, no second subscription to keep track of.
What Nowdex is
An app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows that shows how much of each AI service's plan is left, and when each limit starts over. It is made by Randynamic Studio, is free to start, and needs no account of its own: you connect the services you already have.
Three things define it:
- One widget per service, drawn around that service's own limits. Not a generic percentage bar — Codex gets its weekly quota and session window, Claude gets its five-hour and weekly windows, gateways get a wallet balance. Light and dark both.
- Everywhere you actually look. Home Screen and Lock Screen on iPhone and iPad, the menu bar on Mac, the notification area on Windows.
- Credentials stay on the device. Sign-ins live in the Keychain, usage is requested straight from each provider, and there is no Nowdex account on a server somewhere.
The problem it solves
Quota windows are the part of a coding agent you cannot see while you are using it. Four situations come up constantly:
- Deciding whether to start something big. A long refactor at high reasoning effort can eat a session window. Knowing that the window resets in 40 minutes changes the plan; finding out afterwards does not.
- Watching more than one plan. Claude is nearly out, Codex is fine, Cursor is on a spend limit. That comparison lives in three tabs today.
- Being away from the desk. The limit is on your Mac. You are on a train, or in a meeting, with an iPhone. The question "can I start this task?" has no answer until you get back.
- The reset time, not the percentage. "68% left" means one thing with a reset in three days and something else with a reset in forty minutes.
A menu-bar app solves the first two at the desk, and a terminal tool solves the numbers. Neither follows you out of the room.
What it shows, per service
The interesting design decision is that Nowdex does not flatten every provider into one progress bar. Each widget mirrors what that service actually reports:
- Codex — weekly quota and reset credits, plus a session window when the account reports one.
- Claude — the five-hour session window and the weekly window, each with its own reset time.
- Cursor — usage left, on-demand usage and spend limits.
- Grok — the weekly allowance and its reset.
- Gateways — a wallet instead of a window: balance, spend and request count, because a prepaid account has no reset time to count down. An AIHubMix account, for example, reads as balance, total spend and calls made.
That last shape is the honest one. If you pay per token through a gateway, the number that matters is money left, not a percentage of a plan, and the app shows it that way.
Platforms
| Platform | What you get | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, full app | iOS 18 or later |
| iPad | Same widgets, larger canvas | iPadOS 18 or later |
| Mac | Menu bar, desktop widgets, Usage page | macOS 15.6 or later |
| Windows | Notification area, toasts on reset, Usage page | Windows 10 or later, x64 and Arm64 |
| Apple Vision | The app, on visionOS | visionOS 2.0 or later |
The Windows build is a separate, native app rather than a port of the Mac one: same idea in the notification area, with a panel that opens on click and keeps refreshing after you close the window. It is free on the Microsoft Store.
The services it connects to
Nowdex connects to 17 services: Codex, Claude, Cursor, Grok, Antigravity, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Qoder, DeepSeek, OpenCode Go, Muse Code, Command Code, Ollama Cloud, OpenRouter, AIHubMix and Cline. WorkBuddy is supported too — team and education seats show the quota the organisation assigns.
The gateways share one group in the app (Gateways), and they are added by pasting a key rather than signing in to a browser session: OpenRouter with its API key, AIHubMix with the account's Manage Key — the console's Management Key, an fd*** value, not the sk- key that calls models. A prepaid gateway has no plan to count down, so they are read as a wallet: balance, total spend and request count.
How you sign in depends on what the service offers, and the app follows the service rather than inventing its own login:
- Browser sign-in for Codex, Claude, Cursor, Grok and Antigravity.
- A device code for Kimi and Muse Code.
- A pasted key for GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek, OpenCode Go, and for the gateways: OpenRouter with its API key, AIHubMix with its Manage Key.
- A personal access token for Qoder.
The Windows app covers 13 of these, using the same four methods.
Token usage, not just quota
Remaining quota answers "can I start this?" It does not answer "what did today cost?". Nowdex has a second surface for that, powered by tokens.ci: today's tokens and cost, split by input, output, cache read, cache write and reasoning, and broken down by agent and model.
It shows up in three places: the Usage tab of the app, the Today's Usage widget (tokens and cost, plus which agents and models they went to), and a Token Activity widget that draws daily usage as a grid for the last few weeks — today, the last 7 days, or this month. The Token Activity widget also works on the Lock Screen.
Token accounting needs a usage tracker connected once; unlike quota, it cannot be read from the provider's own API. It is also a different kind of number: quota is what the vendor says is left, while tokens and cost are a local record of what you ran. Treating them as the same thing is how people end up confused about why a plan reset and a bill did not.
Privacy
The privacy model is the unusual part, and it is worth stating plainly because most usage tools need a server in the middle:
- Credentials in the Keychain. Sign-ins are stored by iOS and macOS, and in iCloud Keychain when you turn on sync. On Windows, they are encrypted for your Windows user account and stored on that PC.
- Requests go from your device to the provider. Nowdex has no proxy in front of your traffic.
- No Nowdex account. There is nothing to sign up for. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected".
- What syncs. With iCloud Sync on, connection metadata — which providers and accounts are linked, display names, sync identity fields — travels through your iCloud. Not the usage itself.
Price
Free to download, and the free tier connects one account for one service — enough to decide whether the idea works for you. Nowdex Pro is a $5.99 in-app purchase that unlocks more services and accounts, and includes iCloud Sync across Mac, iPhone and iPad. The Windows app is free on the Microsoft Store.
How it compares with CodexBar and ccusage
Three trackers come up in the same conversations, and they answer different questions.
- ccusage reads the logs your agent CLIs already write and prints daily, weekly, monthly and per-session token and cost reports, from
npx ccusage. It covers a long list of agents, emits JSON for scripts, and is the right tool for detail at the terminal. It cannot tell you what the provider says is left of your plan. - CodexBar is an MIT-licensed macOS menu bar app (14+, with a Linux build) that shows session, weekly and monthly windows with countdowns, credit balances and provider status, for around a hundred providers. It reuses existing sessions rather than storing passwords. If you sit at a Mac all day and use an obscure provider, it is the widest net.
- Nowdex optimises for the other end of the day: the phone, the Lock Screen, the Windows PC, plus token usage in the same app. Fewer providers than CodexBar, no terminal output.
The practical split: ccusage for reports, CodexBar for breadth at the Mac, Nowdex for the glance before you start a task. They coexist happily: both alternatives are free, their source is on GitHub, and none of them locks your accounts away from the others.
What it does not do
- It reports, it does not cap. Spending limits and key quotas belong to the providers. Nowdex will not block a request or stop a run.
- There is no web version. Four native apps, no browser dashboard — if you want to check from a Linux desktop or a Chromebook, this is not it.
- Session expiry is normal. When a provider revokes a session, the account shows a reconnect prompt rather than a number. That is the cost of not storing passwords.
- Free tier is one account. Multiple accounts and services need Pro.
- Provider coverage is decided per service. If your service is not on the list, no widget appears — the gateway route (Sub2API and NewAPI-style sites can hand a connection link to the app) is the fallback for self-hosted gateways.
Who it is for
- You pay for two or more agent plans and want one place to see what is left.
- You work away from your Mac and want the check to happen on your phone.
- You want a Lock Screen answer to "is it worth starting this now?".
- You care that the credentials stay on the device.
It is a poor fit if you need a browser dashboard, if your only interest is token reports in a terminal, or if you run a provider that the app does not support.
A five-minute setup
- Install from the App Store or the Microsoft Store, and open the app.
- Add one account. On the Mac, choose what stays visible in the menu bar; everything else stays one click away.
- Add the Home Screen or Lock Screen widget for the service you watch most.
- Optional: connect the usage tracker once, for tokens and cost.
- Optional: turn on iCloud Sync (Pro) so a second device does not ask you to sign in again.
FAQ
Does Nowdex need my password?
It signs in the way each provider allows — a browser OAuth flow, a device code, an API key or a personal access token — and stores the resulting credential in the Keychain. It reuses the session rather than asking for a password it would have to keep.
Does it work if my Mac is off?
Yes. Each device fetches usage itself, so the iPhone widgets keep working with the Mac asleep or closed. iCloud Sync carries the provider setup, not the fetching.
Is there a Nowdex account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for, and the App Store listing reports no data collected.
Why does a gateway show a balance instead of a percentage?
Because a prepaid gateway has no plan quota to count down. It bills per token against a wallet, so balance, spend and request count are the numbers that exist.
What is the difference between quota and the Usage tab?
Quota is what the provider reports as remaining, with a reset time. The Usage tab is a local record of tokens and cost from a connected usage tracker. They measure different things and will not always agree.
Does it replace ccusage or CodexBar?
No. Those are free and open source, and they do different jobs — reports and breadth at the desk. Nowdex is the app you check from your phone.
Is the Windows version the same app?
Same product, separate native build: notification area instead of the menu bar, free on the Microsoft Store, no iCloud Sync.
Sources
- Nowdex — the product site: widgets per provider, menu bar, token usage and privacy claims.
- Press kit — supported services, descriptions and platform list.
- Nowdex for Windows — Windows requirements, the 13 services and its sign-in methods.
- CodexBar vs. ccusage vs. Nowdex — Nowdex's own comparison of the three trackers.
- CodexBar and ccusage — the projects' repositories: licence, platforms and capabilities.
