Show HN: LimitBar, a macOS menu bar app showing your Claude usage limits(mikaweiss6.gumroad.com)
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Show HN: LimitBar, a macOS menu bar app showing your Claude usage limits
https://mikaweiss6.gumroad.com/l/limitbar
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This is pretty nice. My preference as a heavy claude vscode user would be to have this integrated into the chat widget itself. Right now I use the / command to check the usage periodically, but a little gage/indicator built straight into the chat window frame is something i would install in a heartbeat. Hope this helps and good luck!
damn that's a great idea, thanks for the feedback. I put it in the menu bar so I could keep an eye on the usage while CC was running in the background and I was in other apps. I'll ship a new version with both native (menu bar & menu bar) and then the user can toggle on or off each as desired.
Thanks again!
Thanks again!
build stuff: native Swift/AppKit, a single binary under 1 MB, no Electron or Node, negligible CPU/RAM. It reads the same usage metadata endpoint the usage wheel and /usage use, so it never invokes a model and spends zero tokens, observing the budget doesn't consume it. No telemetry, no analytics, no network calls except to Anthropic's own endpoints. The source is included in the download and the installer compiles it locally, so you can read exactly what runs. Auth reuses your existing Claude Code CLI login from the Keychain and refreshes via Anthropic's official OAuth refresh flow, the same thing Claude Code itself does, that step is opt-in, and there is a long-lived-token-file alternative that never involcves Keychain.
ofc this is unofficial and not affiliated with Anthropic, so if they change the usage endpoint it needs an update (the parser is defensive, updates are free). macOS 13+ only. Needs a Pro or Max subscription and the Claude Code CLI logged in, it does not work with raw API keys, Bedrock, or Vertex.
It is €2.99 one-time on Gumroad with a 30-day refund. First thing I have ever shipped for sale, so I would really appreciate feedback, especially on the auth handling. Considering open sourcing and then just selling the installer and updates/support etc but as I said I'm new to this!