Claudicator — Your Claude quota, always one glance away

What it does

Read your quota without breaking flow

No dashboard to open, no tab to check. Claudicator lives quietly in your menu bar and keeps the numbers that matter in front of you.

At-a-glance status

A small gauge in the menu bar fills as you use your 5-hour session and turns amber, then red, as you run low — so you can read your quota without even opening the popover.

Live countdown

See exactly when your 5-hour session and weekly quota reset — a running countdown, not a vague estimate, so you always know how long until you're topped back up.

Auto-refresh

Updates quietly in the background every 2.5 minutes. Want an instant check? Hit refresh anytime and the numbers update on the spot.

Private by design

Signs in with the same secure flow as Claude Code. Your password never touches the app, there's no telemetry, and nothing ever leaves your Mac.

Reading the numbers

Colors that tell you when to slow down

The progress bar and status dot shift color as you burn through your session — readable at a glance, even from the corner of your eye.

Plenty left

Under 80% used

Getting low

80–90% used

Almost out

Over 90% used

Privacy

It all stays on your Mac

Claudicator reads the OAuth token Claude Code already stored in your macOS Keychain and calls Anthropic's usage endpoint directly. That's it.

No analytics. No telemetry. No third-party server. The source is right there for you to verify.

Your token never leaves your machine. It's read from the Keychain and used only to call api.anthropic.com directly.
Your password never touches the app. Sign in through the same secure OAuth flow you already use for Claude Code.
No tracking of any kind. Zero analytics, zero telemetry, no servers in between.
Fully open source. Don't want to trust a binary? Read every line and build it yourself.

Getting started

Up and running in under a minute

Download, drag to Applications, and connect your Claude account — the same three-step flow you already know from Claude Code.

Install the app

Download the DMG and drag Claudicator into your Applications folder. Prefer to build it yourself? ./build-dmg.sh from source works too.

Connect to Claude

Click Connect to Claude…, approve access in your browser, and paste the code back — exactly like signing into Claude Code.

Glance away

Your quota appears instantly in the menu bar and stays up to date. There's no window to manage — click the gauge whenever you want detail.

Want the detailed walkthrough — including the one-time macOS security approval and fixes for common snags? Read the full install guide →

Stop guessing how much you have left.

Claudicator is free, open source, and runs entirely on your Mac. Grab it and keep your Claude quota one glance away.

Download for macOS View source

macOS 13 (Ventura) or later · Apple Silicon & Intel