Clausage

Clausage is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that shows your Claude plan usage limits: the current 5-hour session, your weekly limit and each per-model limit. Every limit gets a pace tick and, when you're running hot, a clock time for when you'll run out. It works for claude.ai chat users; Claude Code isn't required. Made by Travis Kirton.

Think of it as a tally of how much you've eaten, and what's left on your plate if you keep up the sizzle. iPhone app with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets coming soon.

What's on the plate

• Menu bar icon. The rays fill in clockwise as your busiest limit gets used. No number needed.
• One link per limit. Current session, All models and each per-model limit, each with its own bar.
• Pace tick. Shows how much you'd have eaten by now at an even pace. Bar ahead of the tick? Slow down and chew.
• Forecast. Past 85%, you get Out ~Mon 9:40 PM: when you'll clean your plate, if that's before the reset serves seconds.
• Weekly running total. Your week filling up day by day against an even pace, plus which product had the biggest appetite.
• Widgets. Mac desktop now; iPhone Home Screen and Lock Screen with the iPhone app (coming soon).
• Nudges. Optional notifications at 85% and 95%, when you're on track to clean your plate early, and when a limit resets.

Frankly, it keeps quiet

Used	Bar	What you see
Under 85%	Warm gray	Nothing extra. Plenty left on the plate.
85% and up	Orange	Getting full. A runout time, if it lands before the reset.
95% and up	Red	Last bites. Wrap it up, or wait for seconds.

The bar color comes from the percentage alone. The ~ means the forecast is a guess, not gospel.

Links on every screen

Your limits sit on your desktop (and soon your Home Screen and Lock Screen), so one glance tells you if there's room for another bite before you start a big task.

What's in the grinder (Mac only)

Turn on Scan Claude Code sessions and Clausage breaks down what's eating your Claude Code limit, with a tip for each:

• parallel sessions and long context,
• your top skills and subagents,
• how many times you hit the wall this week.

It reads ~/.claude on your Mac. Only totals are kept, never prompts or code, and nothing leaves the Mac.

Privacy

Nothing funny in the casing.

• What it reads: your plan's type, limits, usage credits and how much you've used, from claude.ai.
• What it never sees: your password. You sign in on claude.ai's own page, and Clausage never reads it.
• Where it lives: on your device. The iPhone app is standalone, with no iCloud sync.

No analytics, no ads, no tracking. The full policy is at clausage.ai/privacy.

Install

Requires a Claude Pro or Max plan. Free plans don't have a usage page on claude.ai, so Clausage has nothing to read.

• Mac (macOS 13 Ventura or later): download the latest version, unzip it and move Clausage to Applications. It's signed and notarized, and updates itself.
• iPhone (iOS 17 or later): not on the App Store yet. Build it from source.

Open Clausage, sign in to Claude, and the first link drops.

Build from source

Needs Xcode and XcodeGen (brew install xcodegen). project.yml is the source of truth; the Xcode project is generated.

git clone https://github.com/traviskirton/clausage.git
cd clausage
xcodegen generate
open Clausage.xcodeproj

Schemes: Clausage (Mac app and widget), ClausageiOS (iPhone app and widgets), ClausageTests (unit tests). To run on your own devices, set DEVELOPMENT_TEAM in project.yml to your team and change the com.postfl.clausage bundle IDs, App Group and Keychain group to ones you own.

Feedback

Spotted wrong numbers or have an idea? Open an issue, or use Send Feedback in the app.

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Clausage is an independent app, not made by or affiliated with Anthropic. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic. This is the free, open-source Clausage at clausage.ai, not affiliated with other apps of the same name. No actual sausages were harmed.