{ "schema": "tesign-radar/item/1", "generated_at": "2026-09-17T01:56:13.055Z", "lang": "en", "slug": "poketokenbar", "url": "https://tesign.com/en/item/poketokenbar/", "alternates": { "ko": { "html": "https://tesign.com/item/poketokenbar/", "json": "https://tesign.com/item/poketokenbar/index.json", "markdown": "https://tesign.com/item/poketokenbar/index.md" }, "en": { "html": "https://tesign.com/en/item/poketokenbar/", "json": "https://tesign.com/en/item/poketokenbar/index.json", "markdown": "https://tesign.com/en/item/poketokenbar/index.md" } }, "name": "PokeTokenBar", "use_label": "Pokemon raised on your coding tokens", "one_liner": "Mac menu bar app: your AI coding tokens hatch and evolve a Pokemon; tracks usage limits.", "text": { "why": "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.", "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.", "build": [ "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": [ { "role": "Mac developers using AI coding tools daily", "situation": "today's tokens, cost and 5-hour/weekly limits from the menu bar" }, { "role": "People mixing several tools", "situation": "per-tool tabs with a combined daily total" }, { "role": "Users who keep hitting limits", "situation": "reset countdowns, a burn-rate forecast and threshold alerts" } ], "start": [ { "command": false, "text": "Requirements: macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon or Intel)" }, { "command": false, "text": "brew install --cask chattymin/tap/poke-token-bar" }, { "command": false, "text": "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)" } ], "caveat": [ "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." ] }, "cta": { "type": "install", "label": "INSTALL", "url": "https://chattymin.github.io/PokeTokenBar" }, "ready": "install", "categories": [ "ai", "games" ], "categories_confirmed": true, "tags": [ "menu-bar", "token-usage", "claude-code", "codex", "pokemon", "macos" ], "platform": [ "macos" ], "license": { "spdx": "MIT", "scope": "permissive", "scope_text": "Use, change and redistribute, commercially too. Keep the notice.", "url": "https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html", "note": null, "open_source": true }, "language": "Swift", "source_urls": { "canonical": "https://chattymin.github.io/PokeTokenBar", "github": "https://github.com/chattymin/poketokenbar", "huggingface": null, "app_store": null, "sightings": [ { "source": "showhn", "url": "https://github.com/chattymin/PokeTokenBar", "posted_at": "2026-07-16T15:48:35.000Z", "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936171" } ] }, "numbers": { "as_of": "2026-09-16T21:00:00.000Z", "stars": 433, "stars_unit": "GitHub stars", "stars_checked_at": "2026-09-15T19:35:34.741Z", "stars_observed_since_check": 0, "star_delta_24h": null, "star_delta_7d": null, "star_delta_30d": null, "star_delta_unit": "GitHub stars gained in the window, GH Archive events summed to as_of", "spark_14d": [ null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ], "hf_likes": null, "hf_likes_observed_at": null, "hn_points": 2, "hn_points_observed_at": "2026-09-13T15:10:46.579Z", "store": null, "method": "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours." }, "ranks": null, "activity": { "pushed_at": "2026-09-14T03:23:45.000Z", "owner_type": "User", "open_issues": 42, "contributors": 35, "releases_count": 30, "latest_release": { "tag": "v2.5.4", "published_at": "2026-09-12T14:23:56.000Z", "prerelease": false }, "checked_at": "2026-09-15T19:35:34.741Z", "core_checked_at": "2026-09-15T19:35:34.741Z" }, "signals": [ { "kind": "back", "label": "BACK CATALOG", "value": null } ], "images": { "og": "https://tesign.com/img/poketokenbar-962701a111.png", "cover": "https://tesign.com/img/poketokenbar-962701a111.png", "cover_width": 720, "cover_height": 1134, "gallery": [ "https://tesign.com/img/poketokenbar-962701a111.png", "https://tesign.com/img/poketokenbar-5244a68f64.png", "https://tesign.com/img/poketokenbar-ee24addeb8.png", "https://tesign.com/img/poketokenbar-10e8fa410e.png" ], "alt": "PokeTokenBar popover home: the companion Pokemon sprite, today's token total, and official 5-hour and weekly limit percentages with reset countdowns", "tier": 2 }, "dates": { "first_seen_at": "2026-09-13T15:10:46.579Z", "source_created_at": "2026-07-16T15:48:35.000Z", "discovery_hours": 1415.3698830555556, "launch_signal_at": "2026-07-16T15:48:35.000Z", "kept_at": "2026-09-14T19:27:43.534Z", "first_published_at": "2026-09-14T19:27:43.735Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-15T04:36:56.972Z", "ingestion_mode": "backfill" }, "notes": [ "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.", "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.", "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.", "Reconstructed from archive data, not a live discovery.", "A summary, not legal advice." ] }