Sandev Dullewa

Glint - Claude Code activity, right where you want it.

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Glint is a lightweight macOS menu-bar app that surfaces what your Claude Code sessions are doing - live status, the current tool, token spend, the plan, subagents, usage meters, and context window - in a glanceable island near your notch, a floating pill, or beside the Dock. Reads ~/.claude locally; your session data never leaves your Mac. Support for other providers like Codex, Kiro and etc are on the roadmap to be release ASAP!

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Sandev Dullewa
I run multiple Claude Code sessions throughout the day, and I got tired of constantly alt-tabbing into terminal windows to answer two questions: Is it done? And is it waiting on me? So I built Glint a lightweight macOS menu bar app that surfaces Claude Code activity in a Dynamic Island-style overlay near the notch. If you're not a notch fan, there's also a draggable floating pill that works over full-screen apps, plus a Dock-side bar that uses otherwise wasted screen space. What Glint shows: - Live status: thinking, idle, or waiting for input. This was the main reason I built it—no more sessions sitting blocked for 20 minutes because I forgot about them. - Per-turn tokens, cost, and elapsed time, matching Claude Code's own status line. - Current plans and active sub-agents. - Context window usage. - Multiple sessions at once: the one needing attention takes priority, while the rest remain visible in an expanded view. - Session and weekly usage limits, complete with reset countdowns. - Optional subtle sounds when a task finishes or requires input. Privacy: Glint reads the session logs Claude Code already writes to ~/.claude, entirely on-device. No telemetry, no data leaves your Mac. The only network request is license validation. Performance: Near-zero CPU usage at idle, even with hundreds of MB of session history. Glint only tails actively written transcripts and refreshes at most once per second.
Sandev Dullewa

Glint roadmap already includes building support for other providers like Codex, Kiro and etc.

Kasun Jayarathna

Most of my claude code sessions run in the background while i'm doing something else. watching a video, handling emails, whatever. glint is the thing that actually tells you when it needs your attention without you having to go check. the subagent view is a nice bonus too - parallel sessions get chaotic fast. been using it every day since i stumbled on it

Sandev Dullewa

@truekasun Glad it's been useful! That background workflow was exactly the problem I built Glint to solve. Thanks!