A few months ago I opened an AI bill that was bigger than it should have been.
Nothing was technically broken. That was the annoying part.
The problem was visibility. I could not tell what I was spending until after I had already spent it. By then the only option was to stare at the number and promise myself I would be more careful next month.
That is a terrible workflow.
So I built TokenBar.
TokenBar lives in the macOS menu bar and shows what is happening in real time. The point is not to make AI usage scary. The point is to make it visible while you are still making decisions.
That change matters.
When costs are hidden, people guess. When people guess, they overspend or underuse good tools because they do not trust the number.
I wanted a tiny tool that made the tradeoff obvious without getting in the way.
If you use AI every day and want cost visibility without opening another dashboard, TokenBar is for you.
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