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steipete/CodexBar
Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login.
A macOS menu bar app that shows your current usage, limits, and reset timers for 53+ AI coding providers — Codex, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, and a long tail of others — without requiring you to log into each dashboard. It bundles a CLI that also runs on Linux for scripting and terminal integration.
Each provider gets its own auth strategy — OAuth, browser cookie decryption via Keychain, CLI PTY fallback, local SQLite reads — rather than one-size-fits-all. That specificity is why the usage data is actually accurate instead of approximate. The bundled CLI with static musl Linux builds is a genuine feature, not an afterthought; the Waybar, GNOME, and KDE community integrations build on it. Privacy posture is credible: it reads a small set of known file paths when features are enabled, doesn't crawl the filesystem, and the README names exactly what Keychain keys it touches and why. Swift 6.2 strict concurrency throughout, which is a pain to write but means the async refresh loop is actually correct.
The maintenance surface is enormous. Every provider integration is a custom scraper — browser cookies, internal billing RPCs, local config files, CLI output parsing — and any provider-side update silently breaks it. The upstream-monitor CI workflow and the regenerate-codex-parser-hash script both hint that this is already a recurring problem, not a hypothetical one. The Keychain prompt situation is painful enough that the README dedicates a full troubleshooting doc to it and offers a nuclear 'disable all Keychain access' escape hatch. Windows and Linux users get community-maintained forks and panel widgets rather than the real app — usable, but the experience gap is real. And the cookie-based providers require Full Disk Access on macOS, which is a hard ask for users who treat that permission as a red line.