Claude Code usage in your menu bar — not another browser tab

If you run Claude Code every day, you know the interruption: mid-refactor, you wonder how much of your rolling window is left, open a dashboard, lose your flow, and come back hoping you weren't already at 94%. Anthropic enforces two limits that rarely line up with how you work — a 5-hour rolling window and a weekly cap — and neither shows up next to your editor unless you go looking.

Two clocks, one glance

Token Gauge is a small, native menu-bar app for Mac — and the same app, on the same license, runs in the Windows system tray. It reads Claude Code's usage on your machine and shows live 5-hour and weekly percentages, color-coded green, amber or red, plus a countdown to the next reset in your local timezone. Pin Claude as your primary agent and the menu bar shows the number that matters without opening the popover at all.

What you get for Claude Code

The free tier includes full Claude Code tracking — no license key, no Token Gauge account required to start. You get the live 5-hour window and weekly cap, reset countdowns, and per-model token tables where Anthropic exposes them, all computed on your machine. Threshold notifications let you set a nudge before you burn the window during a long session. Heads up: this works on Claude Pro, Max, Teams, Enterprise and the Console — the free claude.ai plan has no usage endpoint, so it reads blank.

Local reads, honest scope

We're explicit about what Token Gauge does and doesn't do. It reads usage from Anthropic's own authenticated usage endpoint using credentials already on your system — never your repositories, prompts or conversation logs. That read is authoritative and doesn't consume any of your quota. The only network calls Token Gauge makes are each provider's usage endpoint plus one license check; it isn't fully offline, but your code and prompts never leave the machine because there's nowhere for that data to go.