CodexBar 🎚️ — May your tokens never run out.

Every AI coding limit, in your menu bar.

Tiny macOS 14+ menu bar app that keeps AI coding-provider limits visible and shows when each window resets. See the supported providers below. One status item per provider, or Merge Icons mode with a provider switcher. No Dock icon, minimal UI, dynamic bar icons.

Also available as a Linux desktop app with usage and spending windows, separate settings, desktop notifications, and an optional tray icon. On Omarchy, a native bar widget shares the desktop app’s data and follows your theme.

Why

• Plan around resets. Per-provider session, weekly, and monthly windows with countdowns to the next reset — stop guessing whether to start that long task.
• Credits, spend, and cost scans. Credit balances, Admin API spend dashboards, provider billing summaries, and local cost scans where the source exposes enough detail.
• Live status. Provider status polling surfaces incident badges in the menu and an indicator overlay on the bar icon.
• Privacy-first. Reuses existing provider sessions — OAuth, device flow, API keys, browser cookies, local files — so no passwords are stored.

Install

macOS app

Requires macOS 14+ (Sonoma). Download from GitHub Releases, or install with Homebrew:

brew install --cask codexbar

Linux desktop and Omarchy

The Qt 6 desktop app supports Wayland and X11, with an optional Omarchy widget. Published desktop archives target x86_64 and ARM64 and require glibc 2.39+, Qt 6.4+, and a separately installed CodexBar CLI. Python 3 runs the per-user installer.

Follow the Linux installation guide for Arch/Omarchy, Fedora, and Debian/Ubuntu runtime packages, verified release downloads, and upgrades. It keeps the CLI's resource bundle beside its executable and installs a launcher and optional login startup. Open Settings to choose providers, then authenticate through the provider's CLI or configure its API key. GNOME may need a tray extension; the app's windows work without a tray.

See the macOS feature comparison for supported features and remaining gaps.

CLI Tarballs (macOS/Linux)

Homebrew formula (Linux today):

brew install steipete/tap/codexbar

Arch Linux AUR package:

yay -S codexbar-cli

Or download release tarballs from GitHub Releases: - macOS: CodexBarCLI-v<tag>-macos-arm64.tar.gz, CodexBarCLI-v<tag>-macos-x86_64.tar.gz - Linux (glibc): CodexBarCLI-v<tag>-linux-aarch64.tar.gz, CodexBarCLI-v<tag>-linux-x86_64.tar.gz - Linux (static musl): CodexBarCLI-v<tag>-linux-musl-aarch64.tar.gz, CodexBarCLI-v<tag>-linux-musl-x86_64.tar.gz

macOS first run

• Open Settings → Providers and enable what you use.
• Install/sign in to the provider sources you rely on: CLIs, browser sessions, OAuth/device flow, API keys, local app files, or provider apps depending on the provider.
• Optional: Settings → Providers → Codex → OpenAI cookies (Automatic or Manual) to add dashboard extras.

Set API keys from the CLI

Provider toggles and API keys live in the resolved CodexBar config file. New installs use ~/.config/codexbar/config.json; existing ~/.codexbar/config.json installs still load from the legacy path. You can script the same provider list that Settings → Providers uses:

codexbar config providers
codexbar config enable --provider grok
codexbar config disable --provider cursor

For API-key providers, store a key without opening Settings:

printf '%s' "$ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" | codexbar config set-api-key --provider elevenlabs --stdin

set-api-key trims the piped value, stores it with restrictive config-file permissions, and enables the provider by default. Use --no-enable to only save the key, or --api-key <key> for one-off local scripts where shell history is not a concern. See CLI configuration for the full flow.

Providers

• Codex — OAuth API or local Codex CLI, plus optional OpenAI web dashboard extras.
• OpenAI — Admin API key usage/cost graphs with legacy credit-balance fallback.
• Azure OpenAI — API key, endpoint, and deployment validation probe.
• Claude — OAuth API, browser cookies, or CLI PTY fallback; session and weekly usage where available.
• ClinePass — API key for five-hour, weekly, and monthly subscription limits.
• Cursor — Browser session cookies for plan + usage + billing resets.
• OpenCode — Browser cookies for workspace subscription usage.
• OpenCode Go — Usage API, browser fallback, and local SQLite cost history.
• Alibaba Coding Plan — Web cookies or API key for coding-plan quotas.
• Alibaba Token Plan — Bailian browser/manual cookies for token-plan credits.
• Qwen Cloud — 5-hour and weekly individual Token Plan usage via browser/manual cookies.
• Gemini — OAuth-backed quota API using Gemini CLI credentials (no browser cookies).
• Antigravity — Local language server probe, agy CLI HTTPS source, and Google OAuth fallback (experimental).
• Droid — Browser cookies + WorkOS token flows for Factory usage + billing.
• Copilot — GitHub device flow + Copilot internal usage API.
• Devin — Chrome localStorage session or manual Bearer token for daily and weekly quotas.
• z.ai — API token for personal/team quota, MCP, 5-hour, and hourly usage windows.
• Manus — Browser session_id auth for credit balance, monthly credits, and daily refresh tracking.
• MiniMax — API token, cookie header, or browser cookies for coding-plan usage.
• T3 Chat — Browser cookies capture for Base and Overage usage buckets.
• ZoomMate — Chrome cookie auto-import or manual cURL capture for credits usage.
• Kimi — Auth token (JWT from kimi-auth cookie) for weekly quota + 5‑hour rate limit.
• Kilo — API token with CLI-auth fallback for Kilo Pass usage.
• Kiro — CLI-based usage; monthly credits + bonus credits.
• Vertex AI — Google Cloud gcloud OAuth with token cost tracking from local Claude logs.
• Augment — Augment CLI or browser cookies for credits tracking and usage monitoring.
• Amp — Browser cookie-based authentication with Amp Free usage tracking.
• Ollama — API key access plus browser cookies for Ollama Cloud usage windows.
• llmman — Local daemon memory used by loaded models, with an optional API key.
• Synthetic — API key quota endpoint for rolling five-hour, weekly token, and search-hourly usage.
• JetBrains AI — Local XML-based quota from JetBrains IDE configuration; monthly credits tracking.
• Warp — API token for GraphQL request limits and monthly credits.
• ElevenLabs — API key for character credits and voice slot usage.
• OpenRouter — API token for credit-based usage tracking across multiple AI providers.
• Windsurf — Browser localStorage session import or local SQLite cache for plan usage.
• Zed — Zed editor Keychain session for plan, edit-prediction quota, billing cycle, a