Mission control for Claude Code & Codex in your menu bar
BlackFlare - a native macOS menu bar app for Claude Code and Codex. Keep your Mac awake during long runs, get notified when a session finishes or needs you, switch your defaults from the menu, and watch plan usage — all on-device.
Ahoy, captains 👋
I'm Tin Nguyen, a pirate at The Black Flagger
You give Claude Code or Codex a real task and walk away. Two things go wrong.
Your Mac falls asleep, and your agent stops with it. Or it finishes in two minutes — and you find out at lunch. Worse, it got stuck on a small question after 30 seconds and waited for you the whole time.
BlackFlare closes both gaps. It's a small app that lives in your menu bar.
🔥 Your Mac stays awake while a session runs, and sleeps again when it's done. Long refactors finish while you're gone.
🔔 It pings you the second the agent finishes or gets stuck. On your Mac, or on Telegram or Slack so you can leave the desk and actually touch some grass. Works with Claude Code and Codex CLI in the terminal, VS Code, and JetBrains. You can tell it to stay quiet while you're sitting right there.
⚙️ Change your default configs from the menu. Model, permission mode, effort — one click, no flags to remember, no editing JSON by hand. It edits your config files carefully, backs them up first, and never reformats anything.
📊 See how much usage you have left on your plan, right in the menu bar, with a warning before you run low.
No account. No tracking. Nothing leaves your Mac. To show your real usage it reads your Claude token from the Keychain — read-only, and only if you turn it on. That token goes to Anthropic and nowhere else.
Works on macOS 13 or later, on both Intel and Apple silicon.
I'm here all day — tell me what your agents get up to while you're not watching. 🏴☠️
About BlackFlare on Product Hunt
“Mission control for Claude Code & Codex in your menu bar”
BlackFlare launched on Product Hunt on July 29th, 2026 and earned 108 upvotes and 19 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. BlackFlare - a native macOS menu bar app for Claude Code and Codex. Keep your Mac awake during long runs, get notified when a session finishes or needs you, switch your defaults from the menu, and watch plan usage — all on-device.
On the analytics side, BlackFlare competes within Productivity, Developer Tools and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how BlackFlare performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted BlackFlare?
BlackFlare was hunted by The Black Flagger. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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