TokenEater

Know your AI limits before they hit you.

macOS 14+

Works with Claude (Pro, Max or Team) and OpenAI Codex (ChatGPT sign-in). Either one is enough.

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Everything you need to stay in control

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Session Tracking

Your live 5-hour session window, for Claude and Codex, side by side or one at a time. See exactly how much runway you have left before the limit, and when it resets.

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Every Metric, Live

Session and weekly windows for Claude and Codex, plus Claude's Sonnet, Fable and Extra Credits pools. Build your menu bar segment by segment in the Studio, or start from a template.

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Smart Pacing

Burning through tokens too fast? Pacing compares your usage to a steady pace on your session and weekly windows, for Claude and Codex: chill, on track, watch out, or hot. Weekly pacing can follow your workweek, so weekends don't skew it.

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Agent Watchers

A floating overlay of your live Claude Code sessions, in the terminal or in VS Code, Cursor and Windsurf: thinking, executing, waiting. Click to jump to the right terminal or editor, right-click for quick actions. Claude Code only.

Smart Color

It's not a threshold. It's a feeling.

Scroll. Watch the gauge breathe through the spectrum. The color reflects your real risk of overshooting before the next reset, not a static cutoff.

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Same utilization, three different verdicts. Pick the temperament that matches how you work.

Rate limited.

Don't discover your limits the hard way.
Know before you hit the wall.

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