I got hit with an AI bill that made one thing painfully clear: I did not actually know what my tooling was costing me.
That was the whole spark behind TokenBar.
I wanted a dead simple menu bar app that shows token usage in real time, while I am working. Not after the bill arrives. Not after I have burned hours inside a chat and guessed wrong about cost.
The point is not paranoia. It is visibility.
When you can see usage while you are using the model, you make better choices. You switch tools sooner. You stop treating cost like an abstract future problem. You ship with more discipline.
TokenBar is for anyone who uses AI daily and wants a clearer view of the tradeoff between speed and spend.
If you have ever opened an invoice and thought, wait, what happened here, this one is for you.
TokenBar: https://tokenbar.site
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