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Henry Godnick
Henry Godnick

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I built a menu bar app to stop surprise Claude bills

A couple weeks ago I noticed my AI spend climbing while I was coding and there was zero visibility until the invoice hit.

So I built TokenBar: a macOS menu bar app that shows token usage and cost in real time while you work.

What it helps with:

  • catching runaway prompt loops early
  • seeing which sessions are expensive
  • making model choice less blind

Price is $5 lifetime.

If you use Claude, Cursor, OpenAI, or OpenRouter daily and want to see spend before the invoice, take a look: https://tokenbar.site

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