Burnstate
Claude Code, Codex & Cursor limits, paced in your menu bar
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Burnstate is a native Mac menu bar app for people who code with AI. It shows your Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Vercel AI Gateway limits, marks how much of each window has passed, and tells you when you'd run out at your current pace. Answer Claude Code permission prompts and questions from a card, see every session's tokens and cost, take breaks that count only time away, and share a year of usage as a link. No account, no analytics.
PH · launched Nov 13, 2026 · 93 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: api usage and rate limit monitoring · 75 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Artificial Intelligence
- Menu Bar Apps
- Health
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More like this: all 75 launches in api usage and rate limit monitoring →
Could you build this?
Yes A native Mac menu bar app that displays usage limits and pacing can be built in Swift/SwiftUI, pulling usage data from provider APIs or local logs and hooking into Claude Code permission prompts through its hooks mechanism.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 317 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 318 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 363 days after the earliest competitor.
- Mac menu bar app for Claude Code rate limits · hn · 2026-04-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MeterLuma · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- FuelBar for Mac and Windows · ph · 2026-10-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- claude-codex-taskbar · github · 2026-10-30 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Refill · ph · 2026-10-07 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- QuotaRing · ph · 2026-11-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ai-usage · ph · 2026-10-19 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Claude Usage Bar · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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