Runic
AI usage, costs and quota resets in your Mac menu bar
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Details
- External ID
- 1267021
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Runic
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3239751156484288
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Runic is an open-source macOS menu bar app for seeing AI usage across the providers you enable. Check quota and reset windows, cost estimates, local token history, model breakdowns, and provider status in one place. It can read provider APIs, local coding-tool logs and telemetry where available, with CSV/JSON exports and a CLI. Runic labels estimates and missing data rather than faking precision. Usage stays on your Mac by default. See the GitHub README for install steps and detailed docs.
Enrichment
- Niche
- tools and utilities for Claude
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- menu bar tracker for ai usage and api costs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS menu bar app (e.g., Swift or Tauri) that polls various LLM provider APIs and parses local log files for token usage metrics.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #47 of 81 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 267 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Quota · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Kickbacks CLI · ph · 2026-07-11 · 172 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- subscriptionbar · github · 2026-09-18 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- OptiMac · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Portero · ph · 2026-07-14 · 166 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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