{"slug": "show-hn-promptrack-a-local-menu-bar-app-that-tracks-your-claude-code-usage", "title": "Show HN: Promptrack A local menu bar app that tracks your Claude Code usage", "summary": "Promptrack, a new macOS menu bar app, tracks Claude Code usage locally—prompts, tokens, lines of code, and active time—with no cloud or network requests. The app reads session logs from disk and costs $19 as a one-time purchase for macOS 13+ on Apple Silicon and Intel.", "body_md": "Lives in your Mac menu bar\n\n# Your Claude Code activity, tracked from your menu bar.\n\nPrompts, lines, cost, tokens, breaks.\n\nSee exactly what happens every time you prompt. Just for you. No leaderboard, no cloud, nothing shared.\n\n## Every session, measured.\n\nLines of code — Today, this week, all-time.\n\nActive time & pauses — Focused time, tracked automatically.\n\nPrompts — Counted locally, always.\n\nTokens — Tracked per session.\n\n## 100% local. Nothing leaves your Mac.\n\nPromptrack reads directly from the session logs Claude Code already writes to your disk — nothing is uploaded, nothing is sent to a server. There is no account, no sync, no server to trust.\n\nReads directly from\n\n~/.claude/projects/<project>/<session>.jsonl\n\n~/.claude/history.jsonl\n\nNo network requests. Ever.\n\nEarly access\n\n$19\n\nOne-time purchase. No subscription, ever.\n\n- All current & future metrics\n- Unlimited projects\n- Lifetime updates\n- 100% local — no account required\n\nmacOS 13 or later. Apple Silicon & Intel.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-promptrack-a-local-menu-bar-app-that-tracks-your-claude-code-usage", "canonical_source": "https://promptrack.dev/", "published_at": "2026-07-22 22:01:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 22:22:20.689353+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Promptrack", "Claude Code", "macOS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-promptrack-a-local-menu-bar-app-that-tracks-your-claude-code-usage", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-promptrack-a-local-menu-bar-app-that-tracks-your-claude-code-usage.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-promptrack-a-local-menu-bar-app-that-tracks-your-claude-code-usage.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-promptrack-a-local-menu-bar-app-that-tracks-your-claude-code-usage.jsonld"}}