If you’re juggling multiple AI coding assistants, you know the frustration: mid-flow inspiration strikes, you fire off a prompt to Claude, and… rate limited. Then you scramble through browser tabs checking usage dashboards, losing your train of thought. CodexBar solves this with a simple premise: keep all your AI service limits visible in your macOS menu bar, so you never hit a wall unexpectedly.
This isn’t just another menu bar widget - it’s surprisingly comprehensive. Supporting 15+ providers from OpenAI Codex and Claude to newer players like Cursor, Gemini, and JetBrains AI, it shows both session and weekly limits where available, plus reset timers. The implementation is clever too: it uses OAuth APIs where possible, falls back to browser cookies when needed, and even taps into local CLI tools. You can run separate status items per provider or merge them into a single switcher - whatever matches your workflow.
With 7K+ stars and active development, it’s clearly solving a real pain point for the growing crowd of developers who’ve integrated AI into their daily coding. The setup is straightforward (enable providers you use, authenticate once), and having that peripheral vision of your API limits means you can plan your AI-assisted coding sessions instead of getting surprised by walls.
⭐ Stars: 7262
💻 Language: Swift
🔗 Repository: steipete/CodexBar