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LimitBar
macOS menu bar app showing your Claude usage limits
If you're powerusing Claude Code (esp. with Fable), the usage limits are your work budget. LimitBar keeps all of them in your Mac menu bar, updated every 60s, so you can plan your day instead of re-running /usage or clicking the usage wheel all the time. Native Swift, under 1 MB, no Electron. Reads the same numbers Claude shows you and spends zero tokens doing it. Unofficial, not an Anthropic product. €2.99, source included.
Hey PH! I use Claude Code all day on a Max plan, and at some point I noticed I was planning my whole workday around the usage limits: the 5-hour window decides when I start a heavy session, the weekly cap decides what gets pushed to next week. The annoying part was that meter is invisible unless you keep clicking the usage wheel or running /usage. I was checking it constantly.
So I built LimitBar for myself first: a tiny native menu bar app that shows every limit Anthropic reports on your account (5-hour window, weekly, per-model like Fable), refreshed every 60 seconds. Reading the numbers never invokes a model, so watching your budget costs none of your budget. And hitting limits mid-session never catches you by surprise anymore.
Two things changed a lot on the way to launch. First, the pitch. I assumed the selling point was avoiding surprise lockouts, but after living with it for a while it became obvious the real value is calmer planning, so the whole product got reframed around that. Second, my first test user hit a wall of macOS permission dialogs, so I rewrote the Keychain handling to go through Apple's own security tool. Most Macs now see zero permission popups.
it's unofficial and not affiliated with Anthropic. macOS 13+, needs Claude Code logged in on a Pro or Max plan. €2.99 one time, 30-day refund, and the source ships in the download and compiles locally on your Mac, so you can read exactly what runs.
I built it with Claude Code, while watching LimitBar count what building it was costing me. Happy to answer anything.
finally something that just sits in the menu bar and does one job well, the 60s refresh is fast enough that i stopped thinking about it, native swift at under 1MB is a nice flex too
How does it actually read those numbers from Claude Code without an API hook, just scraping the local session data or something else?
Finally something that lives in my menu bar and actually respects my machine, sub-1 MB Swift is a treat. The 60s polling feels right and seeing the numbers without spawning a /usage command is genuinely useful for pacing long sessions.
Love this idea. I work on pc mostly so not for me but I often have a tab wasted to keep checking on this. Nice clean way to visualize.
About LimitBar on Product Hunt
“macOS menu bar app showing your Claude usage limits”
LimitBar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 11 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #20 on the daily leaderboard. If you're powerusing Claude Code (esp. with Fable), the usage limits are your work budget. LimitBar keeps all of them in your Mac menu bar, updated every 60s, so you can plan your day instead of re-running /usage or clicking the usage wheel all the time. Native Swift, under 1 MB, no Electron. Reads the same numbers Claude shows you and spends zero tokens doing it. Unofficial, not an Anthropic product. €2.99, source included.
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