Launching today
LimitBar
macOS menu bar app showing your Claude usage limits
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macOS menu bar app showing your Claude usage limits
12 followers
If you're powerusing Claude Code (esp. with Fable), the usage limits are your work budget. LimitBar keeps all of them in your Mac menu bar, updated every 60s, so you can plan your day instead of re-running /usage or clicking the usage wheel all the time. Native Swift, under 1 MB, no Electron. Reads the same numbers Claude shows you and spends zero tokens doing it. Unofficial, not an Anthropic product. €2.99, source included.
How does it actually read those numbers from Claude Code without an API hook, just scraping the local session data or something else?
@nerimand1c7 it is an API call in the literal sense. What I meant is it's not the public developer API and not hooked into Claude Code's process. LimitBar calls the same internal usage endpoint Anthropic's own clients use, with your existing login. Appreciate the question!
Finally something that lives in my menu bar and actually respects my machine, sub-1 MB Swift is a treat. The 60s polling feels right and seeing the numbers without spawning a /usage command is genuinely useful for pacing long sessions.
@kumsalukh1 much appreciated!
@kumsalukh1 much appreciated!
finally something that just sits in the menu bar and does one job well, the 60s refresh is fast enough that i stopped thinking about it, native swift at under 1MB is a nice flex too
@sibel8d87 much appreciated 🙏 how has your experience been otherwise, using it?
Love this idea. I work on pc mostly so not for me but I often have a tab wasted to keep checking on this. Nice clean way to visualize.
@mjohnson42 much appreciated. Where would you want this on your screen on your PC - same place or somewhere else?
@meekydubs1 hmmm not sure - maybe in the start menu on pc? But also to be honest I wouldn’t pay for it. I still think it’s a great idea and wish you luck!
@mjohnson42 really helpful feedback. Why wouldn't you pay for it? Would you purchase it at 99 cents?
@meekydubs1 honestly because using another tab isn’t that bad and if I wanted I could vibe code it and I would be hesitant to allow a 3rd party to connect into my Claude account