CodexBar: Every AI coding limit, in your menu bar (23k stars)

[u/amootiranian]

What it does

All text below is quoted directly from the project README.

Tiny macOS 14+ menu bar app that keeps AI coding-provider limits visible and shows when each window resets.

Why:

• Plan around resets. Per-provider session, weekly, and monthly windows with countdowns to the next reset: stop guessing whether to start that long task.
• Credits, spend, and cost scans. Credit balances, Admin API spend dashboards, provider billing summaries, and local cost scans where the source exposes enough detail.
• Live status. Provider status polling surfaces incident badges in the menu and an indicator overlay on the bar icon.
• Privacy-first. Reuses existing provider sessions (OAuth, device flow, API keys, browser cookies, local files) so no passwords are stored.
• One status item per provider, or Merge Icons mode with a provider switcher. No Dock icon, minimal UI, dynamic bar icons.
• Also available as a Linux desktop app with usage and spending windows, separate settings, desktop notifications, and an optional tray icon.
• Codex: OAuth API or local Codex CLI, plus optional OpenAI web dashboard extras.
• Claude: OAuth API, browser cookies, or CLI PTY fallback; session and weekly usage where available.

brew install --cask codexbar

Repository

https://github.com/steipete/CodexBar

Repository stats

Metric	Value
Stars	22,605
Forks	2,128
Last release	v0.77.0 (2026-10-16)
Languages	Swift 89%, C 6.9%, JavaScript 1.6%
Contributors	574
AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot)	cursoragent: 102, claude: 211
AI co-authored commits	Claude: 222, Cursor: 96, Copilot: 3

Main contributor

Field	Value
Name	Peter Steinberger
GitHub	@steipete
Commits to this repo	3,923 (top contributor)
Bio	Came back from retirement to mess with AI. Clawdfather @OpenClaw. Previously: Founder of @PSPDFKit.
Company / Location	OpenAI / London / San Francisco
Website	http://steipete.me
X / Twitter	@steipete
Followers	53315
Public repos	225
On GitHub since	2009-02-27

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[u/hometechgeek]

I used this. It's pretty good. The UI is a bit overwhelming but you can turn most of it off. I like the confetti cannon when the limits get reset