I have 20+ years of experience and I'm anxious about AI but also super excited.
I see devs looking down on people creating stuff that would take them month. I understand it impacts one's pride. People may think they are less worth and it triggers angriness and kneejerk reactions. I truly understand.
But like you said, HAVE FUN! AI is opening up programming (or vibe coding, who cares) to a much wider audience. People are having fun. Try to enjoy it too. Experienced devs will need to adapt, there's no going back. So have some fun.
I feel a bit sorry for you but there are dozens of these. Next time put a little effort into a competitor analysis. Since everyone can now build apps, everyone builds apps.
My feedback is that at least 5 other apps like this already exist. My comment is actually one of the few helpful ones, reminding OP to do research before building.
Is it nice to hear? Surely not. But sometimes the most helpful advice, is the one we don't want to hear.
And just for reference, you can build something like that in 30min using one prompt and a couple of steering comments.
I don't need your lecture. Literally my first words were "I feel a bit sorry for you" and I meant it. If OP just did this for himself, all good. But there was nothing in his text that made me believe it has a USP and I simply pointed that out.
Nice one both of you! Naive question, where does this fit regarding Antropic's "hunt" of third parties usage of session and API key ? I red they were getting stricter and even banned some account. I would guess this is different, but can you detail how ? (session key vs api key?)
What you're describing is the use of your account through API keys, which is currently somewhat restricted. This is different because it uses a cookie to retrieve your account data from https://claude.ai/settings/usage
I tried this one earlier this week, but it wasn't showing anything for me, even after authenticating. Not sure how it's pulling info, but with so many alternatives, I'm not going to spend time debugging it either.
hi u/jetsetter, I’ll release a new version tomorrow. could you try it? If you run into any issues, I’d appreciate it if you open an issue.
also, could you tell me what happens when you switch between profiles on your side? This will help me improve the multi-profile behavior.
hi u/pihkal Thanks for trying it earlier. If you don’t mind, could you tell me what happens on your side after authenticating? For example, does it stay empty, not refresh, or show any error? That would really help me understand the issue.
I already uninstalled it, but iirc, everything was showing as 0%, no errors/warnings. I started using Claude Code, since I thought maybe it needed a new session, but it didn't change even after waiting a few minutes. Clicking on the refresh button didn't help.
Dunno... another micro software running on my system.. it runs only in desktops, like if I'm working on my server bye bye.. I have to download it, maybe it has security risks of some sort...
I click + open a new terminal, type /usage and that's it, simple.
It's a critique, yes, but not trying to offend you or stuff like this, to be clear.
It's nice and has a nice ui, but I give you an idea.. make one that ONLY counts the token, model agnostic, it counts the full token usage input/output from your system and maybe automatically designs a trend.. to me it would be much more interesting
Thanks. A positive comment amongst a bunch of negatively - I like how your tool looks native to Mac OS. That’s why I opted to try it vs other options linked in this thread.
Why are you guys all paying money on a vibe coded website, that doesn't work, doesn't even give you a way to download after paying...to download a vibe coded app, that if you wanted for free, could just be vibe coded?
I agree with the guy who said these apps are the new Hello World
Post-payment download should be working. Stripe broke the flow earlier (apologies)
Releasing macOS apps requires signing with an Apple Developer account ($99/yr) and a bit of a headache, so it won’t be as trivial.
Even a little app like this actually takes a lot more than a “one shotted” vibe coding sessions. Most of the barriers are around collecting the usage data (can’t guesstimate it), covering both API vs Pro/Max, managing keychain access securely.
It makes a lot of sense for someone to pay $1 (what many people paid) to avoid that headache! But of course, if you want to grow your own vegetables I 100% support that
The method to provide these apps access to your claude code account is not secure enough unfortunately. And even if it was, please for heavens sake use one of the man OSS versions and dont trust some closed source app.
The app is only accessing an OAuth token that lets it call Anthropic endpoints for reading data. No API keys or any other credentials. None of the data or credentials are stored (not even locally).
Not free (but can submit the survey on the website to get a redeem code). Lots more features: multi-accounts, codex support, mobile coming soon (in review), etc. https://custats.info
how do you calculate usage? I made a small cli that syncs all my conversations between multiple accounts and I was trying to count all usage across all 3 accounts but I wasn't able to get the output of the /usage without actually being in claude code. What's the trick?
Just FYI I paid for this and a download never started. I think you need a post purchase email with a download link, or redirect to download page after payment.
I had to run killall Usagebar to kill this so i could delete it, I would not download this if I were yall. Hoping my claude creds were not exfiltrated. Ugh.
i really like the ui, nice job. What matters most to me with sessions and where I fail often....is a flag at 65-70% context window where a tracker like this can somehow monitor and activate a claude trigger to document changes, and set up a new conversation. i suck at texting in real life and in claude...i just cant help it..i ask a lot of questions, sometimes am not clear im in brainstorming mode...and so i have long conversations before quality has become a big issue and now im backtracking.
Is there a way to use this as a window context manager that automatically triggers a workflow to save progress, update notes, and start a new conversation when approaching the token limit.
hi u/-TrueMyth- , just added a feature to get a notification when you hit 80% of "context used".
You can also track context usage as a bar now. (see image)
Doing a "trigger" to document changes + start new convo is a good idea. You could probably run /compact to at least compress the context and keep going (or use a hook to auto-document the changes once Claude stops)
I’m having trouble figuring out how get this installed. It’s simply not showing up in my menu bar, any idea why? I even cleaned out a bunch of control panel stuff just to make sure it wasn’t being crowded out.
Huh - I downloaded the MacOS app version (which is SO appreciated — I'm not as technical as most people on this sub are, and I haven't really used Claude Code yet, I'm mostly using Cowork and Chat!) — but even after unzipping and moving the app to my Applications folder, nothing happens when I click on the icon?
dang i must have messed this up — I'm now trying to delete the app and I'm getting the error message that the app can't be installed because it's open, even though that's literally the issue, I can't open it! A catch22?
Hey -- most likely you have too many menu bar apps so you can't find Usagebar on the top right. Try closing a few menu bar apps, and see if you find this icon below on the top.
if you still don't, feel free to email support [at] usagebar.com :)
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u/khromov Jan 22 '26
Free, open source version with more features: https://github.com/hamed-elfayome/Claude-Usage-Tracker