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Runic macOS Menu Bar App for AI Usage Cost and Token Tracking
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GITHUB · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 58 upvotes (top 29%) · 1 view
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- ai
- anthropic
- claude
- codex
- cost-tracking
- developer-tools
- +14 more
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Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu bar app that tracks AI API usage, tokens, and cost is a standard Swift/SwiftUI app that reads provider usage data or logs and displays it. Vibe coding can produce this in days to weeks.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #530 of 1952 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.
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