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CLUSTER BAR-CODING-MENU-2 · 22 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-06-23

macOS AI token usage trackers

This cluster consists of macOS menu bar apps that monitor token usage, spending, and quotas for AI coding assistants, storing records locally and displaying metrics and trends. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only two dated entries exist before the index start; it predates the index or its members are undated. On traction, vibebar leads with 29 stars, followed by token-usage-monitor with 11 and SplashMonitor with 9.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

FEB 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 15OCT 2026: 2
FEB 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 15 hobby · 1 open source · 4 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01ThinkWatch-Lite1.1k★7 daysliveMenu-bar app that tracks and reports cost, routing, and redactions for a local AI API gateway used by coding assistants.
  2. 02token-usage-monitor11★27 daysliveA macOS menu bar app that monitors token usage for AI coding assistants and stores records locally.
  3. 03token-ledger3★10 days—hobbymacOS menu bar application that tracks token usage and costs across multiple AI coding assistants using local logs.
  4. 04Lupen0★7 daysliveai-builthobbymacOS menu bar app that tracks costs of AI coding sessions by analyzing local logs, showing itemized token usage and expenses.
  5. 05SimpleToken1★9 days—hobbymacOS menu-bar app that tracks token usage, costs, and plan limits for AI coding assistants, computed locally from logs.
  6. 06pollymetric1★13 daysliveDesktop menu bar app that reveals what AI agents leave behind on a Mac, including servers, disk usage, memory, and exposed credentials.
  7. 07AgentBarBar1★6 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that tracks AI agent usage for people using AI coding assistants, showing daily token totals, trends, and per-agent breakdowns.
  8. 08pollymetric1★13 dayslivemacOS menu bar app that shows what AI agents are doing to a computer: running servers, disk usage, local models, and exposed secrets.
  9. 09codex-local-token-bar4★1 mo—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar app that displays today's Codex token usage locally for developers using the AI coding assistant.
  10. 10ClaudeCockpit0★20 dayslivehobbyMac app that tracks usage, spending, quotas, and token savings for an AI coding assistant using local activity logs.
  11. 11TokenWatch-Mac2★1 mo—hobbyMac menu-bar app that tracks token usage and quotas from local AI coding tools, showing daily, weekly, and monthly trends plus model breakdowns.
  12. 12burnline0★13 days—hobbyMenu-bar app that shows token and cost usage from local AI coding agents, with per-agent breakdowns and daily, weekly, monthly, or all-time totals.
  13. 13it-spend-tracker-macos-menu-bar0★12 days—hobbyLocal macOS menu bar app that aggregates spending across a user's IT and AI services, showing per-service and per-key costs with monthly history and totals.
  14. 14vibe-gauge0★23 days—ai-builthobbyNative macOS menu-bar app that monitors AI coding activity, token quotas, prompt cache hit rates, and cleans up orphaned MCP processes.
  15. 15tokenz0★2 days—hobbyMenu bar app that tracks token usage and plan limits for AI coding assistants from logs stored locally on a Mac.
  16. 16tokendance0★25 dayslivehobbyMenu-bar app that tracks AI coding agents' token usage and spending on macOS, displaying live metrics and historical trends from local session logs.
  17. 17thoughtmeter4★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyLocal-first macOS menu bar app that counts keystrokes inside selected AI tools and shows dashboards quantifying human input.
  18. 18AI-Token-Meter0★28 days—open sourceNative macOS menu bar app that shows token usage and account status for several AI coding tools.
  19. 19rtk-meter0★18 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that displays token-savings statistics from an AI token-optimization tool and refreshes them every minute in a popover.
  20. 20Perch0★1 mo—hobbymacOS app that tracks token usage per project from AI coding tools and shows daily metrics in a notch-mounted display.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.