Usagebar
Track Claude Code Usage from your Menu Bar
153 followers
Track Claude Code Usage from your Menu Bar
153 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.
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.
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.
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!