aidbar
Rate limits in the menu bar.
Ultra-minimal macOS menu-bar app and Rust CLI. Reads each provider CLI’s local credentials and calls that provider’s usage endpoint — no browser cookies, no scraping, no accounts.
What you get
A Dock-less menu-bar app (LSUIElement) with the aidbar CLI bundled inside the .app. Once installed, Sparkle checks the release feed for updates.
aidbar— text table of provider, plan, usage bar, reset timeaidbar --json— machine-readable snapshotsaidbar tray— menu-bar mode
Current release
- Version
- 0.2.16
- Published
- 2026-11-02 17:53 UTC
- Disk image
- aidbar-0.2.16.dmg (5.1 MB)
- Requirements
- macOS 14+
- Signing
- Developer ID Application: MEET SOFTWARE COMPANY LIMITED
Release notes
- Reduces background work while the usage menu is closed. - Fixes usage refreshes that could get stuck on large responses. - Shows Codex and Cursor overage billing, including available Codex credits. - Adds Droid usage to the menu-bar app. - Older versions require one manual installation to adopt the new update identity.
Install
- Download the disk image, open it, drag
AidbarMenu.apptoApplications, then open it. - Grant network access when prompted so providers can be queried.
- Updates arrive through Sparkle from this same host.