Glint is a lightweight macOS menu-bar app that surfaces what your Claude Code sessions are doing - live status, the current tool, token spend, the plan, subagents, usage meters, and context window - in a glanceable island near your notch, a floating pill, or beside the Dock. Reads ~/.claude locally; your session data never leaves your Mac. Support for other providers like Codex, Kiro and etc are on the roadmap to be release ASAP!
I run multiple Claude Code sessions throughout the day, and I got tired of constantly alt-tabbing into terminal windows to answer two questions: Is it done? And is it waiting on me?
So I built Glint a lightweight macOS menu bar app that surfaces Claude Code activity in a Dynamic Island-style overlay near the notch. If you're not a notch fan, there's also a draggable floating pill that works over full-screen apps, plus a Dock-side bar that uses otherwise wasted screen space.
What Glint shows:
- Live status: thinking, idle, or waiting for input. This was the main reason I built it—no more sessions sitting blocked for 20 minutes because I forgot about them.
- Per-turn tokens, cost, and elapsed time, matching Claude Code's own status line.
- Current plans and active sub-agents.
- Context window usage.
- Multiple sessions at once: the one needing attention takes priority, while the rest remain visible in an expanded view.
- Session and weekly usage limits, complete with reset countdowns.
- Optional subtle sounds when a task finishes or requires input.
Privacy: Glint reads the session logs Claude Code already writes to ~/.claude, entirely on-device. No telemetry, no data leaves your Mac. The only network request is license validation.
Performance: Near-zero CPU usage at idle, even with hundreds of MB of session history. Glint only tails actively written transcripts and refreshes at most once per second.
About Glint on Product Hunt
“Claude Code activity, right where you want it.”
Glint launched on Product Hunt on June 16th, 2026 and earned 92 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #15 on the daily leaderboard. Glint is a lightweight macOS menu-bar app that surfaces what your Claude Code sessions are doing - live status, the current tool, token spend, the plan, subagents, usage meters, and context window - in a glanceable island near your notch, a floating pill, or beside the Dock. Reads ~/.claude locally; your session data never leaves your Mac. Support for other providers like Codex, Kiro and etc are on the roadmap to be release ASAP!
On the analytics side, Glint competes within Developer Tools, Menu Bar Apps, Vibe coding and Vercel Day — topics that collectively have 526.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Glint performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Glint?
Glint was hunted by Sandev Dullewa. 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.
For a complete overview of Glint including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Sandev Dullewa