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Henry Godnick
Henry Godnick

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I cut my Claude Code waste by 30% with one tiny menu bar tool

If you use Claude Code, OpenClaw, or Codex daily, token usage gets expensive fast and most of us have no live visibility while we work.

I built TokenBar for that exact pain: a lightweight macOS menu bar app that shows token usage in real time while you code.

What changed for me:

  • I stopped over-prompting and started batching asks
  • I could see which sessions were silently expensive
  • I made better model routing decisions earlier

If you are deep in AI-assisted dev and want cost awareness without dashboards, this is a simple add-on.

Happy to share a setup screenshot if useful.

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