A little less tab-checking.
Claude Pulse
your Claude usage, always in sight.
An Android home-screen widget. A Mac menu-bar indicator. Two small, open-source apps that keep your limits close, so you can stay in your flow.
Unofficial. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or made by Anthropic.
Small footprint. Clear signal.
A glance is enough.
Illustrative previews. Try a little more usage.
Session follows the slider; weekly is 60% of it, per-model is 80%. Colours reflect usage, not time remaining.
- 0–49% · Green
- 50–74% · Yellow
- 75–89% · Orange
- 90–100% · Red
Your home-screen heartbeat.
AndroidResize it to fit your day. Compact when space is tight; standard when you want the details. Updates every 10 minutes.
Quietly in your corner.
MacA colour in your menu bar. The full picture in a click. A SwiftBar plugin, written in pure bash.
The same signal, on both.
What they show
Know how much you’ve used, and when you’ll have room again. Every bar includes a percentage, so you never have to guess from colour alone.
Session + weekly
Your session’s 5-hour window and weekly usage across all models over 7 days.
A closer look by model
Sonnet’s weekly bar on Android. On Mac, whichever per-model limit the API returns, such as Fable.
The useful little details
Reset countdowns, Refresh Now, and your plan badge: Free / Pro / Max 5x / Max 20x.
Pick your place.
A small install. A calmer workflow.
01 / Android
Make yourself at home.
Resizable widgets for Android 8+. Sideload the APK, then give your usage a spot on your home screen.
Download latest APK ↗- Download the APK from the release.
- Allow installation from your browser and install it.
- Open the widget picker and add Claude Pulse.
- Choose “Sign in with Claude” to finish setup.
Auto-refreshes every 10 minutes. Tap Refresh Now whenever you need an update.
Android source on GitHub ↗02 / Mac
Give your menu bar a pulse.
Needs SwiftBar, jq, and Claude Code signed in. The pure bash plugin refreshes every 5 minutes.
Get the latest release ↗Or clone the source and run the installer in Terminal:
git clone https://github.com/G-biggy/claude-pulse-mac.git
cd claude-pulse-mac
chmod +x install.sh
./install.shThe apps keep your usage to themselves.
The apps collect nothing and talk only to anthropic.com. Free, open source, MIT licensed. (This website uses Google Analytics to count visits.)