Usagette

What it does

Usagette lives in the Mac menu bar and shows how much of your Claude usage limits you have used: the 5-hour session limit, the 7-day weekly limit and a live countdown to each reset. Turn the parts of the readout you want on or off, and open the panel for the whole picture.

• Read from Claude Code's status line. Usagette sets up a small status-line script that saves the numbers Claude Code already reports. Your own status line keeps working. Numbers refresh while you use Claude Code; between sessions the countdown simply runs on.
• Sounds that rise with your usage. Choose where the sounds start and the step between them. Each step is a level stronger, in five levels, so you hear how close you are without looking. There are also sounds for reaching a limit and for a reset.
• Profiles. Normal (soft chimes), Basic (the standard macOS sounds), Anime (sparkles and voice lines, a little funnier) and Custom (your own sound files). You can also import sound profile files of your own.
• Quiet when it should be. Quiet hours, a mute switch, and silence while your Mac is locked.
• Shortcuts and launch at login, like the rest of the family.

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later and Claude Code. Coming to the Mac App Store. Usage limits are shown by Claude Code for subscription plans that have them.

Free sound profiles

More sounds for Usagette, free to download. Each one rises through the five levels and has its own sounds for the limit and the reset.

• Download8-Bit Adventure. Coins and power-ups, then error bleeps and low-health alarms, a game-over cry at the limit and a fanfare when it resets. Sounds by Juhani Junkala, public domain (CC0).
• DownloadArcade Announcer. A game announcer: calm callouts at first, “Hurry up!” and “Look out!” as you climb, “Game over” at the limit. Voices by Kenney, public domain (CC0).
• DownloadMusic Box. Little wind-up tunes that wind down, slower and lower, as the limit nears. Original sounds, made for Usagette.
• DownloadRetro Console. Chiptune bleeps from an imaginary 8-bit console: power-ups, warning sirens and a game-over tune. Original sounds, made for Usagette.
• DownloadSinging Bowls. One soft bowl at first, lower and closer together as you climb, and a gong at the limit. Original sounds, made for Usagette.
• DownloadSonar Dive. Submarine sonar: lone pings, then faster ones, a dive klaxon at the limit and bubbles on the way up. Original sounds, made for Usagette.

To add one, open Usagette's Settings › Sound Profiles and choose Import…, or drop the downloaded file there. You can also unzip it and double-click the profile.

Privacy in one paragraph

Usagette has no network access, no account and no tracking, and nothing leaves your Mac. It reads one file that its status-line script writes, in the .claude folder you allow it to use. The full privacy policy says the same at more length.