Your AI limits,
always in sight.
Claude Code and Codex enforce a 5-hour window and a weekly cap — and tell you about it mid-task. LimitBar puts every account's live gauges in the macOS menu bar: see the headroom before you fire the big job, and exactly when the wall resets. No dashboards, no guessing.
Rows are accounts; rings are the 5-hour and weekly windows, each with its exact reset time. Green is headroom, yellow is “wrap it up”, and when a window runs dry the clock turns red — ↻ 15:12 beats a surprise lockout.
Every account, one glance
Main plan, the second Max account, Codex on the side — each one is a row with its own live gauges. Add extra Claude accounts right from the menu via OAuth.
The wall, before you hit it
The menu-bar bars slide green → yellow → red as a window fills. Every ring carries its exact reset time — plan the heavy run instead of discovering the cap mid-task.
Native, tiny, notarized
Pure Swift, a couple of megabytes, tokens in the Keychain. Signed and notarized by Apple — double-click and it just opens, no scary warnings.
Three steps
- 1
Open it
Drag LimitBar to Applications and double-click. Three little bars appear in your menu bar.
- 2
It finds your logins
Your Claude Code session and local Codex login are picked up automatically. Add more Claude accounts from the menu — a normal OAuth window, tokens go straight to the Keychain.
- 3
Glance up
Green means go. Yellow means wrap it up. Red shows when the window refreshes — switch accounts or take the walk you owed yourself.
$4.99
Same gauges, Store convenience.
Coming soonFAQ
Where do the usage numbers come from?
From the official usage endpoints, with your own tokens: Claude accounts use the same OAuth usage API the Claude apps read, and Codex uses your existing local login. The gauges show the same 5-hour and weekly windows the services enforce.
Does checking my limits burn my quota?
No. The usage endpoint is a metadata call, not a model request — polling it doesn’t consume tokens or count against your windows.
Can I watch several Claude accounts at once?
Yes — that’s the point. LimitBar picks up your main Claude Code login automatically and lets you add more accounts through the normal Claude OAuth flow. Each account gets its own row and its own gauges, and you can rename rows freely.
Are my tokens safe?
Tokens live in the macOS Keychain, never in plain files. LimitBar talks only to the official Anthropic and OpenAI endpoints, and every line of it is open source on GitHub.
What’s the difference between the free and the App Store version?
The gauges are identical. The free direct download can pick up your existing CLI logins automatically — the App Store sandbox doesn’t allow that, so the Store build asks you to sign in to Claude once (normal OAuth) and to point it at your Codex folder. In exchange you get one-click install and automatic updates through the Store. Pick whichever fits you; the direct build stays free and open source either way.
Is LimitBar really free?
The direct download is — free and open source under the MIT license, forever. The upcoming Mac App Store version is a paid convenience build of the same app, for people who prefer installing and updating through the Store. There’s also an optional tip jar if the free build saves you from a mid-task lockout.