Menu-bar speedometer for AI coding quotas

What it does

CodexBar is a macOS menu-bar utility that surfaces usage limits, credit balances, and reset countdowns for more than 40 AI coding providers—OpenAI, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, and many others. It reads existing sessions from browser cookies, local CLI configs, OAuth tokens, and API keys so you don’t need to sign in again. The app lives entirely in the status bar: no Dock icon, just tiny dynamic meters that dim or badge themselves when a provider is having incidents.

The interesting bit

Instead of building yet another dashboard, it piggybacks on whatever authentication you already have—decrypting Chromium cookies via the browser’s Safe Storage key, scraping local JSONL logs, or reusing the Claude CLI’s Keychain item. That “privacy-first” claim is backed by on-device parsing and a deliberately narrow footprint: it only touches known provider files, not your whole disk.

Key highlights

• Supports 40+ providers including Codex, OpenAI, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, OpenRouter, and ElevenLabs
• Counts down to session, weekly, and monthly resets so you can time long tasks
• Polls provider status pages and overlays incident warnings on the menu-bar icon
• Bundled codexbar CLI for scripting and CI usage on macOS and Linux
• Optional WidgetKit widgets and weekly-reset confetti, if you celebrate metered billing

Caveats

• Chromium and Safari cookie access requires Keychain and Full Disk Access permissions, and the README admits the keychain prompts can be persistent enough to need manual whitelisting in Keychain Access.app

Verdict

Grab it if you pay for multiple AI coding tools and are tired of opening billing pages to see if you can afford another prompt. Skip it if you only use one provider with a simple unlimited plan, or if you find menu-bar clutter worse than rate-limit anxiety.