Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and agentic coding tools are getting good enough that the bottleneck is not always capability anymore. Sometimes the bottleneck is not knowing what the session is burning until the limit popup or bill shows up.
I keep seeing the same pattern:
- a tiny edit sends thousands of tokens
- a coding agent quietly eats a big chunk of quota
- a long context window turns into invisible spend
- the user only notices after the session is already expensive
That feels wrong. Token usage should be visible while you work, the same way CPU, memory, battery, or network status are visible when they matter.
That is why I built TokenBar.
It is a small macOS menu bar app for watching Claude, Codex, Cursor-style LLM token usage without opening a dashboard every few minutes.
Site: https://tokenbar.site/
It is $5 lifetime. If it is not useful, I will refund it.
The goal is simple: catch runaway usage before it becomes a surprise.
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