I was spending $340/month on AI tools without realizing it. So I built TokenBar.
I pay for Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus, Cursor, and hit various APIs on top of that. One month I checked and realized I'd burned through $340 on AI tools without noticing. Each provider has its own dashboard and I never checked any of them regularly.
So I built TokenBar. It sits in your macOS menu bar and shows your token usage, credits, and resets across 20+ AI providers in one place: OpenAI, Anthropic/Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot, OpenRouter, Vertex AI, and more.
Key decisions I made:
Local-first: Everything runs on your Mac. No cloud sync, no account creation, no data leaving your machine.
- One-time purchase: $5 for Basic, $10 for Pro. No subscription.
- Glanceable: You shouldn't have to open a dashboard. Glance at your menu bar and see the numbers.
- Usage alerts: Get notified when spending jumps unexpectedly so you catch runaway scripts before they become a surprise bill.
Built with Swift, native macOS. Would love feedback from anyone else juggling multiple AI subscriptions.
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