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Show HN: Token Time – Screen Time, but for your AI agent tokens

Token Time, a new macOS app, monitors AI agent token usage and displays full-screen reminders after every 100 million tokens. The $6 one-time purchase app runs locally with no cloud or telemetry, targeting developers who want to track and limit their AI spending.

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Show HN: Token Time – Screen Time, but for your AI agent tokens
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Token Time meters every token your AI agents burn and taps you on the shoulder when it's time to take a break.

Launch price · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

A full-screen reminder appears every time today's usage passes another 100M tokens. It auto-dismisses after 10s.

Your live token count and today's spend, always one glance away in the macOS menu bar. No dashboard to open.

See tokens by the hour across the day, so you can spot the runaway sessions the moment they start climbing.

Tokens, dollars, and how today compares to your baseline, split by model, so you know exactly where spend goes.

A full-screen reminder every time you cross a threshold. It auto-dismisses in 10s, just enough to make you look up.

Set the nudge to fire every N million tokens. Tune how often Token Time interrupts you, or barely at all.

No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Your usage data never leaves your Mac. Download it and it just works.

Token Time runs quietly in the background and keeps today's usage right where you can see it. Click the icon for the full picture: the hourly chart, the running cost, and your lock-screen settings.

When you've been heads-down too long, Token Time gently takes over your screen for ten seconds. Breathe, stretch, look away. Then it hands the day back to you.

No account to create, no server to phone home to. Token Time reads your usage locally and keeps every number on your device.

Download and run. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing to log in to.

Your data never leaves the machine. No sync, no upload, no third parties.

Token Time doesn't track you back. What happens on your Mac stays there.

macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

Local, private, and Mac-native. Yours for a one-time $6.

Launch price · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

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