BurnlineSee the burn before you hit the limit.
Burnline sits in your Mac's menu bar and shows Claude Code and Codex usage, plan limits, and the API-price cost.
Today
$25.54
60.2M tokens
CodexPro
- 5-hour23%3h 27m
- Weekly58%1d 21h
ClaudeMax
- 5-hour62%2h 9m
- Weekly41%3d 3h
- Weekly Opus28%3d 3h
5-hour runs out 28m early
Today alone, typing it all at 60 words a minute would take about 1 year.
Claude Code and Codex today. OpenCode and Antigravity next, and more after.
- Claude CodeTracked
- CodexTracked
- OpenCodev0.2.0
- Antigravityv0.2.0
- Cursor
- Kiro
- Command Code
- Pi
- Muse Code
- fx
Every token, every dollar, every limit.
Switch the ranges and the tabs. It's the real dashboard, running on invented data.
Usage
All time
Equivalent cost, all time
$2,943.58
318 sessions
- Codex135 sessions$1,247.6242%
- Claude Code183 sessions$1,695.9658%
Weekly cost
Models
- 1Claude Opus 5$953.98 32%
- 2gpt-5.5$741.46 25%
- 3gpt-5.6-sol$506.16 17%
- 4Claude Opus 5.5$503.53 17%
- 5Claude Sonnet 5.5$238.45 8%
Projects
- 1Burnline$1,062.34 36%
- 2Orbit Notes$530.43 18%
- 3Trailmap$385.90 13%
- 4Pixel Garden$295.54 10%
- 5Recipe Box$232.84 8%
and 3 more
Know your burn rate, not just your bill.
Everything here works. Push the slider, flip the medal, keep the streak going.
Know before you run out
Every limit gets a countdown and a pace mark, and a warning when you'll hit it before the reset.
Claude, 5-hour window
62%
Runs out at 20:28, 28m early
Keep the flame lit
A streak for every day you code, with milestones and a best to beat.
- November
- 13 of 13 days
- 2026
- 147 of 317 days
- Best
- 73 days
- Freezes
27 days to the 100-day medal
See what it would cost
Every token priced at the API's published rates, next to what your plan charges.
2.5x
what your plan costs, used at API prices
You paid $200.00 and used $299.86 more than that.
Claude Max 20x, per month$200.00
Same usage at API prices$499.86
Earn the medals
132 of them, for streaks, volume, landmarks and a few secrets.
New medal, 1 of 3
5B Tokens
Gold, Volume
Process 5B tokens over all time.
Numbers you'll remember
Your tokens and spend, turned into books, coffees, landmarks and lifetimes of typing, in the tone you pick.
All told, about 4,500 times as many tokens as the complete works of Shakespeare. All the world's a prompt.
- All told, about 3,700 times the length of all seven Harry Potter books. Yer a token sink, Harry.
- All told, that's about 2,300 sets of A Song of Ice and Fire. In less time than book six is taking.
- All told, that's every Simpsons script ever aired, 630 times over. The Simpsons already did it.
Is your plan worth it?
Set how you work and see what it would cost at API prices. Burnline does this with your real usage.
Opus 5.5 at API prices, a month
$280.58
Your $200 plan is doing 1.4x its price in work.
- A year at API prices
- $3,366.98
- Each hour of work
- $3.24
- Your plan has paid for itself
- by day 22
- of the month
- Tokens a month
- 520M
- cache reads included
About 4 copies of the Code of Federal Regulations a month. Read aloud, that's a lot of evenings.
Estimates: 6M tokens an hour at this pace, mostly cache reads, priced at the published standard rates. Burnline uses your real tokens and the rate in force for each request.
Eighty seconds of Burnline.
The menu bar, the dashboard and the limits, on the same invented data.
Nothing about you leaves your Mac.
Burnline reads the files your tools already keep and does all its work on your Mac.
No account
Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log in to.
No server
There is no Burnline backend to send anything to.
No telemetry
No analytics and no tracking, of any kind.
Works offline
Only prices and updates ever need the internet.
Your MacNothing in here leaves it
- read only
Claude Code
~/.claude
- read only
Codex
~/.codex
burnline.sqlite
~/Library/Application Support/Burnline
Usage metadata only: tokens, models, times. Never prompts, responses or code.
Menu bar
Today's cost and every limit
Dashboard
Every day since you started
Every connection it opens
The whole list. Nothing else, ever.
raw.githubusercontent.com
The public price list
Dailycan turn off
raw.githubusercontent.com
The public list of updates, and one you choose to install
Dailycan turn off
api.anthropic.com
Claude's limits, with Claude Code's own login
For limits
Codex's own tool
Whatever Codex sends when asked for its limits
For limits
Your prompts, your code, your usage, you
Never sent
Install it in a minute.
Free and open source. Needs macOS 14 or later.
The .dmg
Always the newest release. Open the .dmg and drag Burnline to Applications. It checks for updates itself once a day, and only installs the ones you choose.
The first time you open it
- 1
Open Burnline from Applications
Drag it there from the .dmg first; Homebrew does that for you.
- 2
Choose Done
macOS says it can't verify the developer. Done, not Move to Trash.
- 3
Open System Settings, then Privacy & Security
Scroll down to the Security section.
- 4
Choose Open Anyway
Beside the message about Burnline, then confirm with your password or Touch ID.
Why the extra clicks? Skipping them costs Apple's developer fee, $99 a year. That's about four days at the rate the demo above burns. Once is enough: after that it opens like any other app.
What's new, and what's next.
Straight from the releases on GitHub.
Shipped
- Stop asking about Claude Code's login every few hours
- 0.1.113 Nov 2026
- Say Burnline is released, fix the Homebrew steps, and skip CI for documentation
- Keep nightly users on nightly, explain a stable build following it, and the Keychain prompt after updates
- 0.1.013 Nov 2026
- Prepare release 1: in-app updates, a performance gate and a README that shows the app
- Measure only what can change speed, build the base once, and stop starving tests
Burnline checks for these once a day and asks before installing one.
OpenCode and Antigravity
Two more tools beside Claude Code and Codex, each with its own usage, limits and prices.
Burnline for Windows
Built against the same database and rules, so both versions read your usage the same way.
- Is it free?
- Yes. Burnline is free and open source under the GNU AGPL v3. No trial, no account, no paid tier.
- Does it see my prompts or code?
- No. It reads Claude Code's and Codex's history for usage metadata only: tokens, models, times and projects. Prompts, responses and code are never stored, and nothing leaves your Mac.
- Is the cost what I actually paid?
- No, and that's the point. It's what your usage would have cost at API prices, each request priced at the rate in force when it happened, so you can see what your plan is saving you.
- Which tools does it track?
- Claude Code and Codex today. OpenCode and Antigravity are planned for v0.2.0, and a Windows version is in progress.
- Why does macOS warn me the first time?
- Burnline isn't notarized, which needs Apple's $99-a-year developer program. Choose Open Anyway in Privacy & Security once, and it opens like any other app from then on.
- Why does it ask about Claude's login?
- For Claude's limits it reads the login Claude Code keeps in your Keychain. It's read when needed and never kept. You can turn it off in Settings, and your limits still show.
- How do updates work?
- Burnline checks once a day and shows an Update button when a new version is out. Nothing installs until you choose it. Nightly builds are a switch away in Settings.
- Will it slow my Mac down?
- It's built to stay out of the way: no polling while idle and no animation off screen. Every change has to pass a performance check before it ships.
Put the burn where you can see it.
Free, open source and private. In your menu bar in about a minute.
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- Stars
- 1
- Latest
- 0.1.2
- 14 Nov 2026
- Releases
- 3
- Tests
- 750+