CodexBar

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CodexBar is a tiny menu bar app that shows how much of your AI coding allowance you have left. It keeps usage windows, credit balances, spending and reset countdowns visible for the tools you pay for, from Codex and Claude to Cursor, Gemini, Copilot and dozens more. If you have ever been cut off mid-task by a weekly limit, or juggle several subscriptions and accounts, it is made for you. CodexBar is one of Peter Steinberger's many agent-built projects. In his widely read post on shipping at inference speed, Steinberger explains that he now builds software by steering Codex, rarely reading most of the code himself, and he points to CodexBar as one of the things he is having too much fun building. The app quickly became a favorite among heavy agent users, collecting more than 20,000 GitHub stars, and it now tracks 106 providers, many added by the community. Highlights: • Session, weekly and monthly usage windows with countdowns to the next reset • Supports 106 providers, including Codex, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot and v0 • Reuses existing sign-ins (OAuth, device flow, API keys, browser cookies, local files) instead of storing passwords • Cost and token estimates from local Codex logs • Provider status checks surface incidents right in the menu • One icon per provider, or a merged icon with a provider switcher • Command-line tool for scripting provider settings, plus a Linux desktop app and Omarchy widget CodexBar is free and open source under the MIT license. The menu bar app runs on macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later and installs from GitHub Releases or Homebrew. A Qt 6 desktop app and CLI are available for Linux, including an Arch AUR package.

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