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Best AI Usage Trackers for Mac (2026)

On a Mac the choice is settled by a few documented facts before taste enters it: the macOS version a tool requires, whether it runs on your architecture, which providers it covers, whether it warns you, and what it needs access to. This page lines those up for eleven trackers from each project's own source, with the date each source was read. It names no winner and ranks nothing.

Last updated October 6, 2026 · Checked October 2026 · By Soren Starck · Every source was re-read on October 6, 2026 except our own release manifest, which carries its own date. Nothing here is a test result.

On Windows? This page covers Mac trackers only; see the best AI usage trackers for Windows. CodexBar has no Windows build from its author; OpenQuota and SessionWatcher run on both.

The Mac answer, first

Many providers, free: CodexBar lists 91 providers, has a Linux app and a CLI, and is MIT-licensed. ClaudeBar and Syrtis also cover long lists.
Claude only, free: Claude Usage Tracker has unlimited accounts, per-model limits and API costs; ClaudeMeter covers Claude.ai plan limits with its own Terms of Service caveat. Anthropic's built-in /usage is the authoritative view for Claude Code.
Claude only, paid: Usagebar, which also warns when a session's context runs low.
Codex pacing and banked resets: Codex Limits, or CodexBar for the reset list.
An older Mac: OpenQuota documents macOS 11 with a universal build. ClaudeBar needs macOS 15; Syrtis names Apple Silicon only.
A Mac and a Windows PC on one licence, several Claude and Codex accounts, or your limits on an iPhone or Apple Watch: SessionWatcher (ours, commercial). OpenQuota is the free option that also runs on Windows.
On install trust, Codex Limits, cc-bar and OpenQuota each document builds that are not notarized; ClaudeBar, Syrtis, ClaudeMeter and Claude Usage Tracker say theirs are signed or notarized, and our own site says the same of SessionWatcher. Editorial judgment: our reading of the sources above, not a test result That is a provenance and install-friction difference, not a safety ranking.

Every one of those statements is sourced and dated in the rows below. For reports in a terminal instead of a menu bar, ccusage reads 18 agent CLIs from local data; it is covered in our Claude and Codex tracker guides.

How to read this page

Every claim carries its own source and its own read date. The October 2026 refresh re-read every external source the same day, so most dates match; our own release manifest keeps its earlier date.
External rows are labelled “External publisher/project claim: not independently tested”. They report what each publisher or project documents about itself.
Our own row is labelled “First-party SessionWatcher claim: not independently tested”. SessionWatcher is our product and its row is a disclosed first-party description, not a comparison result.
Recommendations and inferences are labelled editorial. Anything not traceable to a dated source is our judgment and is marked as such.
Nothing here is a ranking. No safety ranking, no quality ranking, no “winner”. Documented minimums, coverage lists and prices move between releases: open the linked source before relying on a row.

First-party SessionWatcher claim: not independently tested

SessionWatcher: our own macOS 14+ menu-bar tracker, on Apple Silicon and Intel.

A publisher description, not a comparison result. Several free apps on this page do part of what it does, and CodexBar covers more providers. What our own site and manifest describe as different:

A Windows app on the same licence key, with the readout inside the Windows 11 taskbar.
Several Claude and Codex accounts side by side (Pro), on Mac and Windows.
An iPhone and Apple Watch companion in TestFlight beta, synced from the Mac.
Codex banked resets listed with their expiry, an alert before one expires, and applied on the Mac after you confirm.
Support by email from the developer.

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macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, Apple Silicon and Intel, per our own facts page, read October 6, 2026. 7-day free trial.

Row by row, with sources and read dates

Each row answers the same nine Mac questions from that tool's own documentation, and each answer links the source it was read from with the date it was read. Nothing in these rows is a test result.