{"slug": "codexbar-every-ai-coding-limit-in-your-menu-bar", "title": "CodexBar: Every AI coding limit, in your menu bar", "summary": "CodexBar, a free and open-source macOS menu bar app, launched to help developers track usage limits, credit balances, and reset countdowns across AI coding tools such as OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude. The app supports macOS 14+ and includes a bundled command-line binary for terminal and CI usage, with standalone tarballs for macOS and Linux. It reuses existing provider sessions to avoid storing passwords, requiring Full Disk Access for Safari cookies and Keychain access for cookie decryption and OAuth flows.", "body_md": "### Resets you can plan around\n\nPer-provider session, weekly, and monthly windows with countdowns to the next reset — no more guessing whether to start a long task.\n\nTrack usage windows, credit balances, and reset countdowns across the AI tools you actually pay for.\n\nFree & open source · macOS 14+\n\nPopular providers become status items with their own usage windows, reset countdowns, charts, and provider menus.\n\nCredit balances and monthly spend where the provider exposes them, plus configurable local cost scans for Codex and Claude.\n\nProvider status polling surfaces incident badges in the menu and an indicator overlay on the bar icon.\n\ncodexbar · terminal\n\n== Codex (oauth) ==\n\n== elevenlabs ==\n\n**>** codexbar\n\nA bundled {codexbar} binary with the same usage output as the menu bar — scripts, CI, and quick terminal checks.\n\nStandalone tarballs for macOS and Linux on every release.\n\nCodexBar reuses existing provider sessions — no passwords stored on disk.\n\nMore\n\nUniversal app via {releases} with Sparkle auto-updates, or via {cask} (updates via {upgrade}).\n\nA bundled {codexbar} binary plus standalone tarballs for macOS and Linux on each release. On Linux: {linuxCommand}.\n\nReuses existing provider sessions — OAuth, device flow, API keys, browser cookies, local files — so no passwords are stored. Audit notes in {issue}.\n\nFull Disk Access for Safari cookies, Keychain access for cookie decryption and OAuth flows, and Files & Folders prompts when provider helpers read project directories.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codexbar-every-ai-coding-limit-in-your-menu-bar", "canonical_source": "https://codexbar.app/", "published_at": "2026-09-07 10:10:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 10:27:11.125247+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["CodexBar", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Codex", "Claude", "macOS", "Sparkle"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codexbar-every-ai-coding-limit-in-your-menu-bar", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codexbar-every-ai-coding-limit-in-your-menu-bar.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codexbar-every-ai-coding-limit-in-your-menu-bar.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codexbar-every-ai-coding-limit-in-your-menu-bar.jsonld"}}