Claude Meter
macOS menu bar app to track your Claude Code usage limit
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Hey HN! I built a native macOS menu bar app that shows your Claude Code usage limits at a glance — no more getting rate-limited mid-flow.It reads your OAuth token from macOS Keychain, polls the Anthropic usage API, and displays your 5-hour and 7-day utilization as a clean progress bar right in your menu bar. Zero token consumption.Built with Swift + SwiftUI. MIT licensed.https://github.com/puq-ai/claude-meter
HN · launched Feb 10, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 51%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward native macOS menu bar utility (Swift/SwiftUI) that retrieves an existing token from macOS Keychain and polls an Anthropic rate-limit API endpoint.
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Competitors mentioned: codexbar
Competitors
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Attention rank: #204 of 373 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 82 days after the earliest competitor.
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