ClawdBar for Mac

Claude Code
limits, in view

See how much of your 5-hour session and 7-day weekly limits you've used, right in your menu bar. No more surprises mid-task.

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For Mac · macOS 13 or later · Needs Claude Code on a Pro or Max plan · Installs with Homebrew · Open source

ClawdBar's panel: 5-hour session at 42% and 7-day weekly at 27%, each with a reset time, and a forecast that the week will end with about half to spare

What it does

Pace your day,
not your guesses

Claude Code's limits reset on a rolling 5-hour window and a 7-day week. ClawdBar keeps both in view, so you know when to push on and when to pace yourself.

Always in view

Two numbers sit in your menu bar: your session and your week. They turn from green to orange at 50%, and to red at 80%. No clicking needed.

The Mac menu bar showing 42% · 27% in green beside the clock

At a glance

Click for the detail: each limit as a colour block with the exact percentage, a progress bar, and exactly when it resets.

Session at 42% resetting in 2 hours 14 minutes, weekly at 27% resetting in 3 days 4 hours

Busy days

As you use more, the cards warm up from mint to butter to peach. You'll see a limit coming long before you hit it.

ClawdBar in dark mode with the session at 86% in peach and the week at 64% in butter, forecast to run dry just over a day early

See it coming

A striped ghost on the weekly bar shows where you'll be when the week resets at your current pace. Underneath is a plain verdict: plenty to spare, how much a day you can use and still last, or roughly when you'll run out.

The weekly card at 71% with a striped forecast filling the rest of the bar, over by reset at about 131%, and a Runs dry verdict 1 day 16 hours early

A heads-up

Turn on usage alerts and ClawdBar taps you on the shoulder when a limit passes your threshold, anywhere from 50% to 95%.

A notification: 5h session at 82%. Your Claude Code 5-hour usage has reached your alert threshold.

Set and forget

Choose how often it checks, start it at login, and it quietly keeps count. Log in with Claude once in ClawdBar and it keeps working even when Claude Code's session expires.

Settings: usage alerts, refresh interval, Claude account, launch at login and updates

And the little things

Thoughtful touches

Small details that make it easy to live with every day.

Reset times

Know exactly when each limit frees up again, from "2h 15m" to "3d 5h".

Your pace

Check every 5, 10 or 15 minutes, or tap refresh for fresh numbers.

Alerts once

Each limit alerts you once per window, even if ClawdBar restarts. No nagging.

Its own sign-in

Uses Claude Code's sign-in, or log in with Claude directly so it keeps working when Claude Code's session expires.

Updates itself

Check for updates in Settings. ClawdBar quits, updates through Homebrew and reopens.

Native, light and dark

Built in SwiftUI with no Electron. Light and dark mode, VoiceOver, and a cat who waves hello.

Take a look

Say hello
to the cat

From the first launch to a busy day, every screen shares the same colourful style.

The welcome screen explaining how ClawdBar works and what it needs — First launch

A busy day: session at 86% in peach, week at 64% in butter and forecast to run dry — Busy day

Private by design

Your sign-in
stays yours

In your Keychain

ClawdBar reads Claude Code's sign-in from your Mac's Keychain, with your permission, and never changes it.

Only to Anthropic

Each check asks Anthropic's API how much you've used. It's read-only, so it doesn't use any of your limits. Your sign-in goes nowhere else.

No tracking

No analytics, no accounts of its own and nothing collected. It's open source, so you can check.

Download & install

ClawdBar is free. It installs with Homebrew, a free and widely used tool for installing Mac apps and keeping them up to date. You only need to set it up once.

Get Homebrew. Download the installer, open it and click through, like any Mac installer. It asks for your Mac password. Already have Homebrew? Skip to step 2.
Download Homebrew
Open Terminal, an app that comes with every Mac. Press ⌘ Space, type Terminal and press Return. A window with a blinking cursor opens.
Click Copy, paste into Terminal with ⌘ V and press Return. Text scrolls past while Homebrew installs ClawdBar. It's done when it stops.
Install ClawdBar
```
$ brew tap RossNicholson/tap$ brew trust --cask rossnicholson/tap/clawdbar$ brew install --cask clawdbar
```
See command not found: brew? Quit Terminal with ⌘ Q, open it again and paste once more.
Open ClawdBar from your Applications folder. If your Mac asks whether you're sure you want to open it, click Open. Then click Allow access & continue, and your usage appears in the menu bar.

What your Mac will ask

Your Mac checks with you before an app can do certain things. Here's what ClawdBar asks for, and what to click.

Keychain. After you click Allow access & continue, macOS asks to let ClawdBar use Claude Code-credentials. That's your Claude Code sign-in. Type your Mac password and click Always Allow, or it will ask again.
Notifications. Only if you turn on usage alerts in Settings. Click Allow.
Launch at login. If you turn it on in Settings, macOS shows a notice that a login item was added. That's expected.

On an older Homebrew, an error about brew trust is safe to ignore.

Keep tabs
on your limits

ClawdBar is free, open source, and signed and notarized by Apple.

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ClawdBar is an independent app and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic.

Claude Codelimits, in view

Pace your day,not your guesses