TokenBar

TokenBar solves a small but persistent problem for anyone who lives inside AI tools: you have no idea how much of your allowance you have burned until something stops working. It sits in the macOS menu bar and surfaces token usage, remaining credits, reset windows and provider mix at a glance, so the number is in front of you while you are still deciding whether to run one more long-context request. The design choice that matters most here is local-first. There is no cloud account to create and no dashboard to log into — the data stays on your machine, which is a meaningful difference if you are working with client projects or simply do not want another SaaS holding your usage history. Compared with the two common alternatives, a provider's own web dashboard or a manual spreadsheet, TokenBar's advantage is that it removes the context switch entirely. Reset-window awareness is the underrated feature: knowing you are three hours from a quota reset changes whether you batch work now or wait. It fits AI power users, founders and operators running several providers in parallel and watching cost movement across a month. Worth noting: it is macOS-only, it tracks AI tokens and credits rather than anything crypto-related despite the name, and how complete the picture is depends on which providers you connect.