A macOS menu bar app that tracks your Claude Code 5-hour and weekly usage limits. See reset timers, get notifications, and never hit the wall unexpectedly.
Hey PH!
I built Usagebar to track your Claude Code usage from your menu bar, so you never hit limits mid-sprint.
I've been using it daily for quick glances. Launching this as "Pay What You Want", would love feedback on future roadmap!
Pay what you want is smart positioning here. SessionWatcher and CodexBar charge a few bucks, which adds friction when youre already paying $20-200/month for Claude. Curious if you pull from rate limit headers or just parse /usage output... the session vs weekly distinction matters when youre trying to time a reset around a big refactor.
Pay What You Want is appreciated, but it seems like maybe open sourcing with a FUNDING.yml approach might be better, given that @CodexBar is free and open source and offers more functionality:
You’re shipping a lightweight menu-bar utility, but users in this space often want deeper analytics (history, per-model breakdowns, budgets) and also care strongly about privacy. How are you prioritizing simplicity vs. power, and what principles will decide what you’ll never add?
The scale pain here is quota truth: Claude Code has multiple windows (session and weekly), and if you rely on UI heuristics you can mis-predict resets or show “blocked” even when headers say allowed.
Best practice is to treat rate limit headers plus /usage output as source of truth, then compute timers from unified reset epochs and optionally reconcile against local JSONL usage logs for accurate history.
Are you parsing the anthropic-ratelimit-unified headers directly, and will you support multiple Claude accounts or teams so the menu bar can switch contexts without mixing limits?
