Usage monitor

Free, macOS only

Your Claude limits, always in the menubar.

A tiny macOS app that shows how much of your Claude plan you have used: the current 5-hour session window and the weekly window, at a glance. No login, no API calls, no credentials.

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Requires Claude Code. macOS 14 or later. Not affiliated with Anthropic.

Every window your plan has

Session and weekly by default. Extra caps, like the weekly Opus limit on Max plans, show up automatically when your account reports them.

Color you can read at a glance

Green under 70%, orange as you approach the limit, red when you are nearly out. Reset times are shown for every window.

Very minimal

Menubar only, no dock icon. Optional launch at login. One small compact readout: session% · weekly%.

Why there is no "connect account" button

It never talks to Anthropic.

In February 2026 Anthropic clarified that using the tokens from a Claude Free, Pro or Max account in any product other than Claude Code and Claude.ai is not allowed. So this app does not sign you in and does not call any API with your subscription. Instead it reads usage data that Claude Code already produces on your own machine.

  • No login and no OAuth tokens.
  • No network requests to Anthropic, ever.
  • Reads one local file and nothing else.

How it works

Claude Code passes your rate-limit percentages to custom statusline scripts. This app rides on that supported mechanism.

  1. Claude Code reports your limits

    On every statusline render, Claude Code hands over your 5-hour and weekly usage, with reset times.

  2. A small script saves them locally

    The statusline script prints your normal statusline and writes the numbers to ~/.claude/usage_snapshot.json.

  3. The menubar app reads the file

    The app watches that file and shows the numbers. That is the whole loop. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Because the data updates only while a Claude Code session is in use, readings older than 15 minutes are marked as stale rather than shown as if live.

Setup

  1. Download the app, drag it to your Applications folder, and open it. It lives in the menubar, with no dock icon. On first launch it sets up its Claude Code statusline helper for you.
  2. Use Claude Code once. After the first response the menubar fills in with your usage.

Get it

Free, no account needed. Download, drag to Applications, done.

Download for macOS

macOS 14 or later. Requires an active Claude Code setup.