I put the remaining Codex quota beside the current chat title

陈玄风 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:56:59 +0000

When I use Codex Desktop, I often want one tiny piece of information: how much quota is left.

The information is available, but checking it means opening the account menu in the lower-left corner. Doing that repeatedly was just enough friction to interrupt the work.

So I built Codex Quota Overlay, a small open-source desktop companion. It places the remaining quota, next reset time, and Reset-card expiry beside the current chat title—in one line.

The overlay only appears while Codex is the foreground app. Switching applications, minimizing Codex, or closing it hides the overlay immediately. It is click-through and does not take focus.

Privacy was an important boundary:

no screenshots;
no reading chat content or chat titles;
no browser cookies;
no telemetry endpoint in the public build by default.

Windows 11 has been tested on a real machine. macOS arm64 and x64 packages are available as pre-releases, but I am still looking for real-machine feedback there. I did not ship a Linux package because there is currently no official Codex Desktop app for Linux.

Source and downloads:

GitHub: https://github.com/cpys/codex-quota-overlay
Releases: https://github.com/cpys/codex-quota-overlay/releases

If you try it, I would especially appreciate feedback about placement on unusual display scaling or multi-monitor setups.

DEV Community: 陈玄风

I put the remaining Codex quota beside the current chat title