I got annoyed at constantly opening different usage/rate-limit screens just to see if I was about to run into a wall, so I made a little local macOS widget for it.
It sits on my desktop/menu bar and shows Claude + Codex side by side:
- 5h and weekly usage meters
- reset countdowns
- projected “you’ll hit the limit around X” based on current burn
- compact/expanded modes
- a local session diary so it can learn my usage/burn patterns over time
- always-on-top toggle
- quiet mode so it only bugs me when things are actually getting tight
It’s all local. No backend, no account scraping service. It just reads the local usage/rate-limit data the tools already expose and stores history on my machine.
Mostly built it because I kept breaking flow to check limits manually, and that felt dumb.
Thinking of adding more stuff too: latency tracking, session efficiency, better usage forecasting, maybe even “today is probably going to drain faster” hints based on trends, plus a status watcher for when Claude/Codex/OpenAI/Anthropic are having issues.
Small side project, but honestly it’s already useful.