QuotaBar
Forecasts the wall
Derives a burn rate from your own history and says whether this window survives to its reset — and how long before it does not.
macOS menu bar · free & open source
See the wall before you hit it.
QuotaBar watches your Claude Code, Codex, Grok and Gemini limits, learns how fast you actually work, and tells you when you are about to run out — while you can still do something about it.
macOS 13 or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · signed and notarised
Claude · 5h window · resets in 45m
95%
0%85% danger line
empty in ~40m — 39m before reset
6.5%/h now · safe ≤4.1%/h
The problem
A percentage tells you where you are. Not whether you will make it.
Knowing you are at 78% is useless on its own. QuotaBar records every reading, works out your burn rate, and answers the question you actually have.
Claude 5h ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ 95% resets in 45m empty in ~40m — 39m before reset 6.5%/h now · safe ≤4.1%/h week ▓▓▓▓▓░░░ 64% resets in 4d 2h lasts to reset with 30% spare 0.4%/h now · safe ≤2.1%/h Use Codex now (≈9h) · fallback Grok (≈6h) Ready for: quick fix ✓ · feature ✓ · long run ✗
What it does
Tells you where to go next
Ranks providers by hours of your typical work each still has, with a fallback named.
Knows what fits
Quick fix, feature, long run — sized from your own session lengths, not someone's idea of an average.
Audits your subscriptions
Peak and average use across completed billing periods, with a verdict: cancel, downgrade, keep or upgrade.
Trust
It reads your credentials. So don't take my word for any of this.
QuotaBar reads tokens and logs that belong to your CLIs. That deserves scrutiny, not a privacy badge. Every claim below is one you can check yourself — the commands are right here.
01
It never asks you to paste a token
There is no field anywhere in the app to type a secret into. It reads what your CLIs already stored. Open it and look.
02
Exactly one outbound host
Only Claude has a usage endpoint. Codex, Grok and Gemini are read from local files and make no network request at all.
sudo lsof -i -a -c QuotaBar
03
The token is never stored, logged or exported
Read at request time, then discarded. The entire credential path is one file of about 175 lines.
git grep -n "accessToken"
04
Diagnostics cannot leak
The support export is built by inclusion, not filtering: tokens, headers, email addresses, home paths and your usage figures are all stripped, and it is pretty-printed so you can read it before sending.
05
Signed, notarised, and verifiable
Apple holds a verified identity for the developer and has scanned the binary.
codesign -dv --verbose=4 /Applications/QuotaBar.app
What it cannot promise. QuotaBar is not sandboxed — it cannot be, because reading another tool's Keychain item and logs is impossible under App Sandbox. That is also why it is not on the Mac App Store. The guarantee here is Apple's identity check plus your ability to read the source, not an OS-level cage. The full version, including what it gets wrong.
Install
Two ways in.
Homebrew
Updates with brew upgrade --cask quotabar, or in-app.
Direct download
A signed, notarised universal build. Drag it to Applications and open it — no Gatekeeper warnings, no right-click-to-open ritual.
Build it yourself
If you would rather not trust anyone's binary, the source builds in three commands. That is the point of it being open.
QuotaBar is free. No trial, no licence key, no upsell. If it saves you a surprise rate limit and you want it to keep being maintained, chip in — entirely optional, and it changes nothing about the app.