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PokeTokenBar

Pokemon raised on your coding tokens

WHO USES ITMac developers using AI coding tools daily · People mixing several tools · Users who keep hitting limits

Install to use

Mac menu bar app: your AI coding tokens hatch and evolve a Pokemon; tracks usage limits.

★ 433▲ 2 HN

433 stars · checked on GitHub GitHub check 30 h late · no 7-day star increase observed (GH Archive) (as of ) · 2 Show HN points observed

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PokeTokenBar popover home: the companion Pokemon sprite, today's token total, and official 5-hour and weekly limit percentages with reset countdowns
PokeTokenBar popover home: the companion Pokemon sprite, today's token total, and official 5-hour and weekly limit percentages with reset countdowns
PokeTokenBar popover home: the companion Pokemon sprite, today's token total, and official 5-hour and weekly limit percentages with reset countdowns
PokeTokenBar popover home: the companion Pokemon sprite, today's token total, and official 5-hour and weekly limit percentages with reset countdowns

TESIGN TAKE

It shows that gamifying was the way to make people check their usage every day; just remember it is an unofficial fan project for personal, non-commercial use only.

INSTALL

AT A GLANCE

LICENSE
MIT
USAGE
Use, change and redistribute, commercially too. Keep the notice.
LANGUAGE
Swift
PLATFORM
macos
ACTIVITY
last commit 2 days ago () · latest release v2.5.4 () · 30 releases
COMMUNITY
35 contributors · 42 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an individual
SOURCES
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OPEN SOURCE
YES
FIRST SEEN
CATEGORY
AI · GAMES

A summary, not legal advice.

WHY IT MATTERS

Token dashboards exist, but few people want to open them; PokeTokenBar reads the local logs of 13 tools (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and more) and hatches and evolves a Pokemon as you spend. Species come from PokeAPI's Gen 1–5 evolution lines (329 possible starts), weighted by official capture rate, with a legendary a 1-in-129 hatch. Underneath sits a real usage tracker: today's tokens and cost, official 5-hour and weekly limits for Claude, Codex and Antigravity, reset countdowns and a burn-rate forecast.

BUILD FROM THIS

  • Tools that keep logs elsewhere can be attached through extra scan folders in Settings, and adding a new tool is one provider implementation plus registration (CONTRIBUTING.md), so wiring up your own tool is a feasible contribution. The floating desktop pet also works as a small always-visible usage widget.

WHO IT'S FOR

Mac developers using AI coding tools daily
today's tokens, cost and 5-hour/weekly limits from the menu bar
People mixing several tools
per-tool tabs with a combined daily total
Users who keep hitting limits
reset countdowns, a burn-rate forecast and threshold alerts

START IN 5 MINUTES

# Requirements: macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon or Intel)
# brew install --cask chattymin/tap/poke-token-bar
# Or download PokeTokenBar.zip from the latest release, drag it into /Applications, and clear the Gatekeeper warning once via right-click → Open (or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/PokeTokenBar.app)

CAVEATS

  • MIT covers only the project's original source code; Pokemon trademarks, artwork and data belong to their owners, and the app is an unofficial, non-commercial fan project for personal, non-commercial use only (not affiliated with Nintendo or The Pokemon Company).
  • macOS 14+ only. The app is ad-hoc self-signed (not notarized): the first launch warns on a manual zip install, while the Homebrew cask clears quarantine for you.
  • Not fully offline: it talks to twelve hosts (PokeAPI, GitHub sprites, api.anthropic.com, claude.ai, cursor.com, Google, status pages) but states it never sends usage logs, prompts or paths. Claude limits come via an unofficial endpoint; Codex via the local codex app-server.

RECEIPT

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