Introduction

UsageNow is a native macOS menu bar app for people who build with AI coding tools. It brings reported limits, reset times, and local activity together, without a UsageNow account. Supported providers include Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Windsurf, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Perplexity, ElevenLabs, Z.ai, and more.

New in 1.0.0#

• Kazakh / Қазақша, Uzbek / Özbekça and Turkish / Türkçe, bringing the app, widgets and website to thirteen languages. Uzbek uses Ö, Ğ, Ş and Ç.
• Optional first-run setup, with provider choices and deferred permissions. Existing installations retain their settings.
• Flexible notifications: provider-specific thresholds, reset notices and quiet hours, without stale-reading alerts or a morning backlog.
• Optional CLI: usagenow status and usagenow status --json read the safe snapshot without provider requests or credentials.
• Refresh after wake, snapshot compatibility checks, and updated JetBrains AI and Perplexity icons for both appearances.

Also available since 0.9.0#

• Personal widgets, with independent provider and account choices, and a new Large size.
• Quota pace: a local chart and a clearly labelled estimate from fresh quota readings, never token counts.
• Optional service incidents, off by default.
• Antigravity CLI fallback when the IDE cannot answer.
• Experimental JetBrains AI local quota; active-subscription validation remains pending.
• Dutch / Nederlands, bringing the app and website to ten languages, and refreshed Windsurf and ElevenLabs icons.

Why UsageNow exists#

AI coding tools meter usage in windows, such as a 5-hour window and a weekly one. When a window runs out in the middle of a task, you have to wait for it to reset. Each tool reports its limits differently, and checking them usually means switching context: running a command, opening a web page, or waiting for a warning.

UsageNow puts that information in the menu bar, for every tool you use, one click away. See what’s left, and keep building.

Local-first#

UsageNow works from information that already exists on your Mac:

• the official Codex app-server, which comes with Codex
• the session files Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Qoder, Qwen Code, Cline, and Grok Build write as you work
• Warp's and OpenCode's own local databases, and the usage limits Kiro writes to its own log
• the account profile Claude Code keeps in its own configuration
• the Antigravity app's local server, or the official CLI's read-only usage report
• Windsurf's locally cached plan, without reading its sign-in
• JetBrains AI Assistant quota cached by the IDE, without credentials or network access

You don’t need a UsageNow account, and no UsageNow server receives your usage data. Optional connections ask the provider directly with the key, token, or web session you explicitly add; experimental Claude limits use its existing sign-in only if you turn the setting on. See connection privacy.

Supported providers#

A provider is an AI coding tool UsageNow can report on.

What UsageNow can show depends on what each provider exposes. See Providers for details.

Surfaces#

Platform#

UsageNow currently focuses on macOS. It requires macOS 15 or later and is built with Swift 6 and SwiftUI, so it looks and behaves like the rest of your Mac — including light and dark appearance.

Next steps#