Kitsmith / Dev & Agents / TrackNotch
Real-time LLM usage and rate-limit tracking across Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, and Codex, right in the notch.
Our take
Solves a different problem than the activity monitors: instead of showing what an agent is doing, it shows how much of your usage or budget is left — including a live arc of how full your active Claude Code context window is. Local-first and unsandboxed by design so it can read provider data directly.
- Price
- Free
- License
- Open source
- Version
- beta
- Requires
- macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon or Intel
- Get it via
- GitHub
- Developer
- Manoj Achari
Do you use TrackNotch?
Who made this
Solo developer of TrackNotch, self-published personal site describes his focus as "practical AI, not hype."
What it does
Claude Code context arc
A visual arc shows how full your active Claude Code session’s context window is, live, with no token or key needed.
Multi-provider tracking
Claude Code, OpenAI API, Cursor, Codex, Anthropic API, and Google Gemini in one pill.
Rate-limit headers
OAuth token support surfaces real 5-hour and 7-day Claude rate-limit data from Anthropic’s own headers.
Budget tracking
Set monthly budgets for OpenAI and Anthropic org-wide spend using admin-level API keys.
Menu bar fallback
Works on non-notched Macs too, sitting cleanly in the menu bar instead.
The deal
- Free and open source (MIT)
- Not signed or notarized yet — needs a manual right-click-Open on first launch
Privacy: Reads usage directly from providers’ own local files and APIs; API keys are stored in the macOS Keychain; the developer states zero analytics or telemetry.
TrackNotch — questions people ask
Does TrackNotch need my API keys?
Claude Code and Cursor usage work via local monitoring without any key; cost tracking for the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs needs an admin-level key, stored in the macOS Keychain.
Why is TrackNotch unsandboxed?
It reads provider data from locations like `~/.claude` that are outside the App Sandbox — the tradeoff is documented in the project’s PRIVACY.md rather than hidden.
Is TrackNotch free?
Yes — free and open source under the MIT license.
Is TrackNotch free?
Yes — TrackNotch is free.
Can I run TrackNotch together with another notch app?
No — TrackNotch draws at the notch, so it takes the place of any other notch app (hubs included). Apps that live in the menu bar or on screen stack alongside it fine.
Where can I download TrackNotch?
TrackNotch is available via GitHub.
Is TrackNotch open source?
Yes — TrackNotch is open source.
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Listing hand-verified July 27, 2026 from the developer's site and public sources.
How TrackNotch compares
Not sold on TrackNotch? These swap in
Notch apps run one at a time — pick one of these instead, not as well.
AgentPeek
$15 one-timeA kanban board for every coding-agent session, answered and monitored from the Mac notch.
Whirr
$4.99 one-timeAmbient agent activity in your notch — watch Claude Code work without watching it.
Chimlo
FreeA native activity island for Codex and Claude Code — read questions, approve tool calls, and reopen finished work.
X Island
FreeA free Dynamic Island for AI coding agents — monitor, approve, and jump back into Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or OpenCode.
Keep TrackNotch — stack these next to it
These live in the menu bar or on screen, so they run happily alongside any notch app.
