Usagebar
Track Claude Code Usage from your Menu Bar
155 followers
Track Claude Code Usage from your Menu Bar
155 followers
A macOS menu bar app that tracks your Claude Code 5-hour and weekly usage limits. See reset timers, get notifications, and never hit the wall unexpectedly.
Raycast
Pay What You Want is appreciated, but it seems like maybe open sourcing with a FUNDING.yml approach might be better, given that @CodexBar is free and open source and offers more functionality:
@chrismessina +1 to this, especially because it asking permission to keystorage.
However, i personal found usagebar asking permission for keystore less often, maybe because it doesn't track other models.
@elpinguinofrio correct, the app was designed to ask for your keychain permissions as little as possible (vs other apps that ask every few hours)
@chrismessina very cool, and I definitely didn’t know about FUNDING.yml (great idea).
Plan is to open source this too.
The scale pain here is quota truth: Claude Code has multiple windows (session and weekly), and if you rely on UI heuristics you can mis-predict resets or show “blocked” even when headers say allowed.
Best practice is to treat rate limit headers plus /usage output as source of truth, then compute timers from unified reset epochs and optionally reconcile against local JSONL usage logs for accurate history.
Are you parsing the anthropic-ratelimit-unified headers directly, and will you support multiple Claude accounts or teams so the menu bar can switch contexts without mixing limits?
@ryan_thill our app will show you the same limits as /usage. Includes both "session" and "weekly" limits.
We also, as you mentioned, use local .json logs as a fallback (and for API users).
Currently not supporting "teams" - the limits are for each individual user - but good idea.
Product Hunt
@curiouskitty good suggestions, these will be on the roadmap. Priority was to ship something extremely lightweight first with a clean UX.
Swytchcode
Is it available in the App Store?
@chilarai currently available outside of App Store (faster to iterate on). It’s still signed with a developer account to distribute outside-of-app-store
Pay what you want is smart positioning here. SessionWatcher and CodexBar charge a few bucks, which adds friction when youre already paying $20-200/month for Claude. Curious if you pull from rate limit headers or just parse /usage output... the session vs weekly distinction matters when youre trying to time a reset around a big refactor.
Thumbfa.st
great app!