A tiny native macOS menu-bar app that shows how hard you're leaning on Claude Code — without leaving your desktop or running a terminal command.
brew install solodynamo/ration/ration
Or download the .dmg directly — drag Ration into Applications, then right-click → Open the first time (it's ad-hoc signed, not notarized, so Gatekeeper needs that one-time override; Homebrew does this for you automatically).
- A ring in the menu bar tracks usage against a budget, auto-calibrated from your own history — or turn budgeting off entirely
- Breaks usage down by project, and by branch if you work across worktrees
- A 7-day trend, plus a shareable recap card (streak, busiest day, an API-equivalent $ estimate) 100% local. Reads Claude Code's own session logs off disk. No accounts, no network calls, nothing leaves your machine.
swift build && swift test
Requires macOS 13+ and Xcode 16 / Swift 6.
./Scripts/build_app.sh # -> dist/Ration.app
./Scripts/make_dmg.sh # -> dist/Ration.dmg
Adding a provider beyond Claude Code means writing one type conforming to
UsageProvider
(see Sources/Ration/Providers/
) — aggregation, the ring, and the rest of the UI are already provider-agnostic. PRs welcome.
source & further reading
github.com — original article
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