claude-usage-tracker 0.1.26

Windows tray widget + dashboard for Claude plan usage (5-hour & weekly limits)

Claude Usage Tracker

A small Windows desktop app that tracks your Claude plan limits — the 5-hour and weekly usage windows, the exact numbers the /usage command shows — with always-on-top overlays (a mini widget and a one-line HUD bar), a tabbed dashboard (Live · All-time · Status · Settings), a live tray icon, and a toast notification every time usage crosses a 20% mark.

It reads the OAuth token Claude Code already stores on your machine and calls the same endpoint /usage uses. Read-only — it never modifies your credentials and talks to nothing but that one Anthropic endpoint.

The always-on-top mini widget — 5h / weekly / context %, with a session picker, verdict, and status dot (sample data)

The minimal one-line HUD bar — a solid, FPS-counter-style strip; fields and order are configurable (sample data)

The dashboard's Live tab — instrument-dial gauges, reset countdowns, a burn-rate projection, a usage-history sparkline, overage credits, scoped weekly limits, and Sessions (sample data)

The All-time tab — sessions, messages, total tokens, active days, streaks, peak hour, favorite model, a contribution heatmap, and by-project totals, with a 7d / 30d / All toggle (sample data)

The Status tab — Anthropic service status (Ok / Errors / Down) with every component listed (sample data)

The Settings tab — show/hide the overlays, choose the HUD-bar fields, and pick which status components drive the indicator (sample data)

Features

• Always-on-top overlays — a frameless, draggable, resizable mini widget (5h, weekly, context %) with Refresh / Check-for-updates buttons and a dropdown to pick which session's context to track; and a minimal HUD bar — a solid, one-line, FPS-counter-style strip (dir Ctx: 73% 5h: 64% 7d: 41% ● Ok) whose controls appear on hover. Toggle either from the tray; they can be shown together. Drag any edge or corner to resize; size is remembered.
• Full dashboard — animated ring gauges, live reset countdowns, a burn-rate / time-to-limit projection ("≈7%/h · hits 100% in ~1h 10m"), a usage history sparkline, overage credits, and per-model (Opus/Sonnet) scoped weekly limits.
• Open Sessions — per-project context-window fill % and last-5h token usage, read from your local Claude Code logs (token counts only, never content), with Context % / Tokens tabs and active indicators — see which terminal is burning your usage.
• All-time stats — a second dashboard tab that mines your whole local history: an Overview (sessions, messages, total tokens, active days, current/longest streak, peak hour, favorite model, a contribution heatmap, and a "you've burned N× more tokens than War and Peace" line) and a Models view (tokens-over-time stacked chart + per-model input/output split), all with a 7d / 30d / All toggle. Folded incrementally from your local logs (each file read once, then only new bytes), so it's accurate without rescanning gigabytes — token counts only, never content.
• Proactive alerts + traffic-light verdict — toasts when a window is on track to run out before it resets, when the active context hits 90% (time to /compact), or when overage credits near the cap; plus a one-glance green / amber / red verdict in the widget and dashboard, and a daily update check with a one-click in-app Update that upgrades in place and restarts — the .exe runs the signed installer, and pip/pipx installs upgrade themselves via the app's own Python (no pipx on PATH needed, no trip to GitHub). Refresh and Check for updates are one click away in the dashboard, widget, and tray menu too.
• Anthropic status — a live Ok / Errors / Down service-status indicator (from status.anthropic.com) on the dashboard, widget, and bar, plus a Status tab listing every component (claude.ai / API / Claude Code / Console / …). Pick which components drive the indicator in Settings, or use the overall status.
• Live tray icon — two bars (left = 5h, right = weekly) that fill and change colour with usage.
• 20% notifications — a Windows toast each time the 5h or weekly window crosses 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100%. The first reading is recorded silently, so you only get pinged on future crossings, never a burst at startup.
• One-click sign-in — when your login expires, a Sign in to Claude action (in the tray menu and on the dashboard banner) runs claude auth login — Claude Code's own sign-in — so you can refresh it without opening a terminal. The app never writes your credentials itself; it just triggers Claude Code's flow.
• Auto-start on login, single-instance, graceful rate-limit (HTTP 429) back-off, and automatic pickup of account/token changes (it re-reads your login each poll).

Colour scale

Bars, gauges, and the tray icon share one muted scale:

Usage	under 60%	60–80%	80%+
Colour	green	amber	red

Tray icon at 5/40, 45/72, 85/94, 95/100, and 0/0 percent

Install

Requires Windows 10/11, Claude Code installed and logged in (so ~/.claude/.credentials.json exists), and the Edge WebView2 runtime (preinstalled on Windows 11; otherwise a free download). Then pick one:

Option A — Installer (easiest, no Python needed)

Download ClaudeUsageTracker-Setup.exe from the latest release and run it. A standard Windows wizard: accept the license, then tick the shortcuts you want — Desktop / Start Menu / start at sign-in.

Windows SmartScreen ("Windows protected your PC") appears because the installer isn't code-signed — normal for small open-source apps. Click More info → Run anyway.

Option B — pipx (updatable from the command line)

pipx install claude-usage-tracker
claude-usage-tracker --install      # interactive: Desktop / Start Menu / Startup
pipx upgrade claude-usage-tracker   # later, to update

Option C — from source

git clone https://github.com/paris-paraskevas/claude-usage-tracker.git
cd claude-usage-tracker
python install.py

After any of these, the mini widget appears top-right and a tray icon by the clock. To pin it to the taskbar (Windows blocks apps from doing this themselves): right-click the running app's taskbar icon → Pin to taskbar.

Updating: the app checks daily and surfaces an Update action (tray menu, and on the dashboard/widget). One click upgrades in place and restarts — the installer build runs the new Setup.exe, pip/pipx installs upgrade via the app's own Python, and a source checkout runs git pull. Check for updates is available any time too.

Usage

Launch "Claude Usage Tracker" from the Start Menu/Desktop, or run it directly:

.venv\Scripts\pythonw.exe claude_usage_tracker.py

Tray menu: Show/Hide widget, Show/Hide minimal bar, Open dashboard, Open in browser, Refresh now, Check for updates, Sign in to Claude…, open config/log, Quit. Overlays drag anywhere, resize from any edge, and have a × to hide.

CLI:

.venv\Scripts\python.exe claude_usage_tracker.py --once          # print status once
.venv\Scripts\python.exe claude_usage_tracker.py --once --debug  # + raw API JSON
.venv\Scripts\pythonw.exe claude_usage_tracker.py --widget       # just the widget
.venv\Scripts\pythonw.exe claude_usage_tracker.py --bar          # just the minimal HUD bar
.venv\Scripts\pythonw.exe claude_usage_tracker.py --window       # just the dashboard window
.venv\Scripts\python.exe claude_usage_tracker.py --uninstall-autostart

Configuration

Edit config.json (created on first run, in the app's data dir), then restart:

Key	Default	Meaning
poll_interval_seconds	60	How often to check usage.
threshold_step	20	Ping every N percent.
windows	["five_hour", "seven_day"]	Which limits to notify on.
notify_at_100	true	Ping when a limit hits 100%.
notify_on_start	true	One summary toast at launch.
dashboard_port	8787	Local dashboard port.
show_widget_on_start	true	Show the mini widget at launch.
widget_width / widget_height	392 / 216	Widget size in pixels.
show_bar_on_start	false	Show the minimal HUD bar at launch.
bar_fields	["dir","ctx","5h","7d"]	HUD-bar fields, in order.
bar_opacity	85	HUD-bar background opacity (30–100).
alltime_days	30	Days shown in the All-time daily-usage chart.

How it works

GET https://api.anthropic.com/api/oauth/usage with the bearer token from ~/.claude/.credentials.json (claudeAiOauth.accessToken) and the anthropic-beta: oauth-2025-04-20 header. The response carries five_hour, seven_day, scoped per-model weekly limits, overage spend, and reset timestamps — the same data the CLI's /usage renders.

Token refresh is handled by Claude Code itself; if your login expires, the tracker shows an error state until you run any claude command to refresh it. The token is only ever read — never written, logged, or sent anywhere but that endpoint.

Privacy

Read-only and local. It reads your Claude login token and session logs from ~/.claude and displays the numbers; it sends nothing anywhere except the Anthropic usage endpoint (using your own token). No telemetry, no analytics, no data collection.

Code signing

Windows builds are signed with free code signing provided by SignPath.io, with a free code signing certificate from the SignPath Foundation.

Layout

claude_usage_tracker.py   the whole app (tray, server, dashboard+widget HTML, poller)
install.py / uninstall.py shortcut setup / teardown
requirements.txt          pystray, Pillow, winotify, pywebview
docs/                     screenshots

Runtime files (config.json, state.json, history.json, *.log) live next to the script (or in %LOCALAPPDATA%\ClaudeUsageTracker when packaged) and are git-ignored.