Claude Meter
macOS menu bar app to track your Claude Code usage limit
Details
- External ID
- 46956460
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Claude Meter
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4865229110512129
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos menu bar app to track claude api usage
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: codexbar
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 164 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #86 of 165 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 82 days after the earliest competitor.
- Mac menu bar app for Claude Code rate limits · hn · 2026-04-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.79
- macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time · hn · 2026-01-08 · 161 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- ClaudeUsage · hn · 2026-02-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Diet Claude · ph · 2026-08-25 · 430 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota · hn · 2026-06-10 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- token-bar · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Claude Usage Tracker · ph · 2026-03-23 · 235 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- GitHub · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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