# PokeTokenBar **Your AI coding tokens, hatched into Pokémon — right in your menu bar.** [](https://github.com/chattymin/PokeTokenBar/releases) [](https://www.apple.com/macos/) [](https://swift.org) [](#homebrew) [](LICENSE) [](https://github.com/sponsors/chattymin) **English** · [한국어](https://github.com/chattymin/PokeTokenBar/blob/HEAD/README.ko.md) · [日本語](https://github.com/chattymin/PokeTokenBar/blob/HEAD/README.ja.md)

PokeTokenBar turns the AI coding tokens you're already burning — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, Cursor, Grok CLI, Copilot CLI, Kiro CLI, Pi Agent, omp, Aside & Kimi Code — into a growing Pokémon companion in your macOS menu bar. Spend tokens, hatch an egg, evolve it through its real evolution line, graduate it into your Pokédex, and start again. Underneath the companion it's a precise usage tracker — today's spend, cost, and official 5-hour / weekly limits, read straight from your local logs.

Token usage is read directly from local Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, Cursor, Grok CLI, Copilot CLI, Kiro CLI, Pi Agent, omp, Aside, and Kimi Code data (totalTokens = input + output + cache, local date) — no external CLI needed. Unofficial, non-commercial Pokémon fan project — see License & disclaimer.

Why

• The usage tracker you actually enjoy opening. Your spend raises a Pokémon that hatches, evolves, graduates, and fills a Pokédex — and every shiny is a reason to check back.
• See today's token spend & cost at a glance — no dashboard, no browser tab.
• Track official 5-hour / weekly limits with reset countdowns and a burn-rate forecast for when you'll hit them.

How it works

1. 🥚 Code as usual. The tokens you burn in Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, Cursor, Grok CLI, Copilot CLI, Kiro CLI, Pi Agent, omp, Aside, or Kimi Code incubate an egg — nothing extra to run.
2. 🐣 Hatch. Eggs hatch into Pokémon with real evolution lines from PokéAPI — any Gen 1–5 line (329 possible starts), weighted by the official capture rate: commons hatch often, a legendary is a 1-in-129 event. It appears in your Pokédex immediately while you raise it. Every hatch rolls one of 25 natures — and once in a rare while, the egg hatches ✨ Shiny.
3. ⚡ Evolve. Keep coding and it grows through its actual evolution tree (1/2/3 stages, branching), with a little flash celebration at each step.
4. 🎓 Graduate & collect. Final form + threshold permanently archives it in your Pokédex — rarer takes longer (≈3 days common → ≈24 days legendary at heavy use) — and a fresh egg arrives.
5. 🍬 Max out, get a candy. Fill a 5-hour or weekly usage limit and you earn Rare Candy — spend it from the Bag to grow your current Pokémon.
6. 🛒 Spend at the Shop. Every token you've used is spendable currency — buy Rare Candy, a Mint that re-rolls your Pokémon's nature, a Shiny Charm that permanently raises your shiny odds, or an egg to send off your current companion and start over. Eggs come in three grades: a plain Pokémon Egg, an Uncommon Egg guaranteed to hatch Uncommon or better, and a Rare Egg guaranteed to hatch Rare or better.

Tour

	🐾 Let it live on your desktop Move your companion out of the menu bar and onto the desktop, at any size from 48 to 384px. Hover it for today's usage, click to open the popover, right-click for a menu, drag it wherever you like — and limit alerts can appear as a speech bubble above it.
In your menu bar An animated Gen-V sprite lives next to today's total tokens (compact, e.g. 200.7M). Add today's cost ($) or official limit % — or turn everything off for a character-only bar.
	✨ Once in a rare while — Shiny Shiny hatches keep their distinct colors through every evolution — menu bar, home card, evolution line. In the Pokédex, species you own shiny show their shiny colors and a ✨ marker; the detail page lets you switch between owned normal and shiny appearances. Unown keeps its A icon in the grid, with letter and color choices in its details. A dedicated notification makes sure you don't miss the moment.
A Pokédex worth filling The Pokédex folds every species you've owned into one cell — 16 per page in a 4×4 grid. Search by name or number, filter by rarity or shiny appearance, and change the sort order. Turn pages with the scroll wheel or trackpad, or use the larger arrow hit areas. Click a collected Pokémon on Home, its evolution line, or the Catch log to open its details; Back returns to its Pokédex page or the log row you opened. The log keeps each individual's full evolution line, rarity, nature, and capture date.
Production UI rendered locally with sample Pokémon.	Collect more than one look Collect Rotom appliances, Shaymin's Land and Sky Formes, Deerling seasons, Unown letters, and other supported Gen 1–5 forms. The Pokédex shows your form count and the individuals in each form. Choose an owned form as your menu-bar and floating-pet representative. An East Sea Shellos keeps its appearance when it becomes Gastrodon, and forms stay in saves and exports. Types, stats, abilities, and moves use the default form’s data.
	Tune it your way Menu-bar items, refresh interval (1–15 min or manual), launch at login, a Keychain opt-out that just hides the limits section, limit alerts with warning/critical thresholds, and companion event notifications. Full KO / EN / JA / ES / FR / PT / DE / RU UI; Pokémon, type, ability, and move names use your language when available and otherwise fall back to English.
🍬 Fill a limit, earn a Rare Candy Max out a 5-hour or weekly usage limit and you're handed a Rare Candy — one per 5-hour cap, five per weekly. Spend it from the new Bag tab to grow your current Pokémon: the moment you're rate-limited becomes the moment you level up.
	🛒 A shop that runs on your usage The tokens you've already used are your currency. Buy several consumables at once with a quantity selector and total-price preview: Rare Candy grows your Pokémon, and a Mint re-rolls its nature. A Shiny Charm permanently raises your shiny hatch odds. Eggs send off your companion and start over: a plain Pokémon Egg, an Uncommon Egg guaranteed to hatch Uncommon or better, or a Rare Egg guaranteed to hatch Rare or better. Legendaries stay in both graded pools. An empty Bag links straight to the Shop.
📊 Official limits, now for Antigravity too Antigravity 2.0 and the IDE report real quota, not an estimate. Gemini models and Claude & GPT models each get their own 5-hour and weekly buckets with reset countdowns, alongside Claude Code and Codex. Background reads use the token file and can refresh OAuth credentials automatically; a manual refresh may still access the Keychain.
	📁 Logs somewhere unusual? Point at them If a tool keeps its sessions outside the built-in paths, add your own roots under Settings → Advanced — comma or newline separated, * wildcards, with a live count of how many extra folders currently match. Every provider keeps its own list, so one tool's folders are never handed to another tool's parser, and your custom roots are added to the built-in ones rather than replacing them.
🔑 Official limits without the Keychain If the cached limit token expires, official Claude limits used to freeze until a refresh — and that press could raise a Keychain password prompt. Paste a claude.ai session key under Settings → Advanced instead: limits then come straight from claude.ai with no Keychain access at all, auto-polling keeps them fresh, and the key is validated the moment you save it.
	🧮 One session log, several models Pi can route more than one model through a single session log. Usage is now attributed to the real model id instead of a flat "pi", and when a day spans several models the popover breaks today's tokens down per model, biggest first.
	Every Pokémon has its own profile Open a species in the Pokédex to inspect each individual: level, gender, nature, ability, IVs, calculated stats, and learned moves. Species descriptions, abilities, and moves use your selected language, with English as the fallback when PokéAPI has no translation.
	Choose your growth pace Set growth thresholds and shop prices independently from 10% to 200%, with Easy/Hard and Cheap/Expensive labels at the slider ends. Dragging only edits a draft; press Save to apply it. Changing growth difficulty preserves your current stage progress instead of triggering an evolution. A hatch from an evolution line you have already graduated grows 2× faster. Hover the hatch or growth bar on Home to see used tokens, the target, and progress as a percentage.
	Your month, day by day The daily chart keeps every date in the calendar month in place, with future dates left blank. When you use two or more tools this month, each day's bar stacks their usage in separate colors with a legend. Hover for that day's total and per-tool tokens and cost when enabled. Weekly and monthly history, plus the recap shortcut, stay visible even when today's usage is zero.
	Limits you can scan at a glance Reset countdowns include the clock time, and the colored percentage stays aligned at the right edge across all quota rows. Choose used or remaining in Settings: both the number and the bar follow that choice.

Also in the box

• Menu-bar shortcuts — right-click or Control-click for today's summary, Refresh, Pokédex, Settings, floating-pet visibility, and Quit.
• Low Power Mode — menu-bar animation continues at Power saver quality.
• Reconnect refresh — usage and limits refresh when the network comes back.
• Representative Pokémon — pin any owned Pokédex species to the menu bar and optional floating pet, independently of the companion you're raising. While pinned, the menu bar stops following egg, hatch, and evolution changes; raising progress remains visible on Home.
• Animation quality — pick how smoothly the menu bar sprite and the floating pet animate (Power saver / Balanced / Smooth). Both always-visible surfaces share the setting. Power saver is the default and keeps the frame rate the app used before this setting existed; Balanced and Smooth trade battery for smoothness (measured idle CPU ~1.8% and ~5.1%).
• Interactive floating pet — hover for today's usage, click to open the main window, right-click for a menu, and show limit alerts as speech bubbles.
• Per-service tabs — when two or more of Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, Cursor, Grok CLI, Copilot CLI, Kiro CLI, Pi Agent, omp, Aside, and Kimi Code are detected, compact tabs switch between them; today's total stays combined.
• Official limits — Claude, Codex & Antigravity 5-hour / weekly utilization with reset countdowns, right under today's numbers.
• Additional scan folders — per-provider extra scan roots for logs kept outside the built-in paths (Settings → Advanced).
• Several Claude accounts — Claude Code logins kept in their own config folder (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR) each get a tab under the official limits, with their own gauges, Rare Candy, alerts, and today/month tokens. ~/.claude-* folders and an exported CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR are found automatically; add others in Settings → Advanced. The menu bar percentage, companion mood, and forecast follow the account you used last (Settings → General → Tracked Claude account). Each account can take its own claude.ai session key (Settings → Advanced), so its limits keep refreshing without the Keychain.
• Burn-rate forecast — projects when the current 5h window hits 100%.
• In-app updates — one-click update check; current version shown in Settings.

• Usage recap — a Pokédex-style recap of any week, month, or year (total, meters, comparison, best day, best streak, graduations). Hover a meter for its date and full token count, and jump back to This week / This month / This year in one click. History is kept locally for this year and the last.

• Local save backups — automatic snapshots and corruption recovery, with a restore screen in Settings. Backup history starts collapsed; expand it to browse snapshots. Create snapshot stays available outside the list.

• Pokémon forms — collect Gen 1–5 alternate forms, inspect form-specific individuals, and pin an owned form to the menu bar and floating pet. An individual's form follows evolution and stays in saves and exports; existing Unown letter saves remain readable. See the form catalog.
• Bulk Rare Candy — use several candies at once and preview the growth before spending.
• Quota pace — gauge markers show the elapsed share of a limit window; six color tiers indicate usage pace, and menu-bar limit percentages use the same colors.

The Home, Settings, form, Shop, Bag, difficulty, daily-chart, and recap images above are local renders of the production UI with sample data.

Works with

Grok support reads Grok Build CLI's local session logs. Grok Bot cloud usage and subscription limits are not integrated.

All read locally — no external usage CLI required. Adding a tool is a provider implementation and registration (see CONTRIBUTING.md).

Install

Requirements

macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon or Intel). That's it — token usage is read directly from local Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, Cursor, Grok CLI, Copilot CLI, Kiro CLI, Pi Agent, omp, Aside, and Kimi Code data, with no external usage CLI required.

Homebrew

brew install --cask chattymin/tap/poke-token-bar

ad-hoc/self-signed; the cask strips the quarantine attribute on install.

Manual install (without Homebrew)

Prefer not to use Homebrew? Download PokeTokenBar.zip from the latest release, unzip it, and drag PokeTokenBar.app into /Applications.

Because the app is ad-hoc/self-signed (not notarized under an Apple Developer account), Gatekeeper shows an "unidentified developer" warning on first launch. Clear it once, either way:

• Finder: right-click (or Control-click) PokeTokenBar.app → Open → Open again in the dialog.
• Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/PokeTokenBar.app

(The Homebrew cask strips quarantine for you, so it needs no extra step.)

Build from source

swift build                  # debug
swift test                   # unit tests
./scripts/build-app.sh       # release → PokeTokenBar.app → /Applications

Data sources

If a provider's logs live outside those built-in paths, add the folder in Settings → Advanced → Additional scan folders. Pick the provider first — each folder is parsed only by that provider, so pointing a Gemini field at Claude logs would mis-attribute tokens. Extra folders are added to the built-in locations; they never replace them.

Privacy & permissions

• On-device first. Token usage is read directly from local Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, Cursor, Grok CLI, Copilot CLI, Kiro CLI, Pi Agent, omp, Aside, and Kimi Code data. The app never uploads usage or runs model turns. To split Claude usage between accounts, each config folder's history.jsonl is read for session ids and prompt times only; the prompt text is ignored and nothing leaves the Mac.
• Outbound requests. The app is not fully offline. It talks to thirteen hosts: pokeapi.co and graphql.pokeapi.co (species/evolution), raw.githubusercontent.com (sprites), api.anthropic.com (Claude official limits), claude.ai (Claude official limits when you save an optional claude.ai session key in Settings — the key only, no prompts or project paths), cursor.com (Cursor usage summary when you are signed into Cursor locally — session credential only, no prompts or project paths), api2.cursor.sh (Cursor official monthly included usage — Bearer JWT only, same credential class as the IDE login), cloudcode-pa.googleapis.com and daily-cloudcode-pa.googleapis.com (Antigravity official limits) plus oauth2.googleapis.com (their token refresh), status.claude.com and status.openai.com (incident banner — off switch in Settings), and api.github.com (update check). None of them carry your usage logs, prompts, or project paths — only the request itself (Cursor sends your session cookie to fetch your own usage rows, same as the web dashboard).
• Keychain (optional). The Claude OAuth credential is read only when you press a refresh button (Settings, or the limits row in the popover). Automatic polling never touches the Keychain, so it never raises a password prompt; when ~/.claude/.credentials.json is present, each poll re-reads it, so an in-place /login to another account is picked up without pressing refresh. The token is held in memory only — the app creates no Keychain item of its own. If there is no credentials file, limits stay on the cached token until it expires or you refresh. Turn it off in Settings — the limits section simply hides. With several Claude accounts, a refresh also reads each other config folder's own item, once per folder, and a declined prompt stops the remaining ones.
• Pokémon data and assets are fetched at runtime from PokéAPI and cached only under ~/Library/Application Support/PokeTokenBar/. Generated individual values (such as IVs, gender, ability and known moves) are stored in the local companion save so they remain stable. The app binary and its release artifacts contain no Pokémon assets.

Contributors

Contributions of all sizes are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md for how to build, test, and open a pull request.

License & disclaimer

MIT — see LICENSE. The MIT license covers this project's original source code only; it grants no rights to any third-party trademarks, artwork, or data accessed through the app.

PokeTokenBar is an unofficial, non-commercial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or approved by Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., or The Pokémon Company. "Pokémon" and all related names, characters, and imagery are trademarks and copyrights of their respective owners. This project claims no ownership of, and asserts no rights over, any Pokémon intellectual property.

• The app binary and its release artifacts bundle no Pokémon assets. Pokémon species data and sprites are fetched at runtime from the public PokéAPI and cached locally on the user's own device; sprite images served via PokéAPI remain the property of their respective owners.
• Any Pokémon imagery in this repository's documentation (screenshots/GIFs) is shown solely to illustrate the app's functionality.
• The app is provided free of charge for personal, non-commercial use only.
• If you are a rights holder with any concern about this project, please open an issue or contact the maintainer, and we will respond promptly.

Provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. This notice is not legal advice.