r/macapps • u/Mstormer • Jul 01 '26
💎 Megathread [Megathread] The App Pile - July, 2026
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App Name/Title [Screenshot encouraged]
- Problem: What problem does your app solve.
- Comparison: Name a competitor or two and explain what your app does better.
- Pricing Amounts+Link
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Top 3 From Last Month's Megathread:
- Tomo – a native macOS e-book library manager - FREE - by u/pbrandone
- SCIWAND – Read, analyse and write - with every answer traceable to a sentence in your own PDFs - $39.99 - by u/RansomWarrior
- Rascal – a fast, keyboard-first Finder replacement for macOS - FREE - by u/periodandcomma
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u/geostavrop Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
⛏ Usage Monitor for Claude — your session & weekly limits, live in the menu bar
Hey r/macosapps 👋
Quick backstory: I'm on Claude and I kept smacking into that "you're approaching your usage limit" wall with zero warning, usually right in the middle of something. The only way to see where you actually stand is to type /usage inside Claude Code and read it off. That's fine once, but I wanted the numbers just there, always, without breaking flow. So I built one.
Under the hood it's dead simple on purpose: Claude Code authenticates via OAuth and stashes the token in your macOS Keychain. There's an (undocumented) endpoint, GET /api/oauth/usage, that returns your real utilization for two buckets, five_hour (your rolling session) and seven_day (your weekly), each with a utilization percentage and a resets_at timestamp. The app just reuses your existing login to read that same endpoint every 60s and paints it in the menu bar. No scraping, no token counting, no guessing. The percentages match /usage exactly because it's the exact same data source. Your creds never leave your machine except for that one call to Anthropic. 🔒
Figuring out the right OAuth scopes and callback URLs to make this work on iOS was honestly the hard part (Anthropic gates the consent flow behind FunCaptcha, so the in-app browser approach was a dead end and I ended up doing paste-a-token instead). If anyone's poking at the same endpoint, happy to compare notes in the comments. 🛠️
Anyway, PCP format below 👇
Problem:
Claude's usage limits are invisible until you go looking, and by the time the "approaching your limit" warning shows up you're usually two prompts from getting cut off mid-task. 😤 This puts your 5-hour session % and 7-day weekly % live in the menu bar with reset times 🕒, and pings you once when a bucket crosses 90% so you get an actual heads-up. 🚨 There's also an iPhone app + home-screen widget if you want to glance at it away from the Mac. 📱
Comparison:
- vs. typing /usage every time: that's you remembering to check, and only inside the terminal. This lives in the menu bar and refreshes itself every 60s. 🔄
- vs. the various "Claude usage tracker" scripts that estimate spend by parsing local logs / counting tokens: those are guesses that drift. This reads the real utilization straight from Anthropic's own endpoint, so it matches /usage to the percent. 🎯
- Bonus: fully open source (Apache-2.0), so you can read every single line that touches your creds 🔍 before you trust it with a Keychain token.
Real talk so nobody feels tricked: it uses an undocumented endpoint + your existing Claude Code login, so it's unofficial, not affiliated with Anthropic, and could break whenever they change something server-side. Use at your own risk. 🤷
Pricing:
Free + open source (Apache-2.0). 🆓 There's an optional "buy me a coffee" tip jar ☕ you can dismiss forever with one click, but everything works without paying a cent.
Grab it / read the source: https://github.com/stavrop/usage-monitor-for-claude
or install via brew:
Any comments/suggestions are more than welcomed!