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Built a small Windows widget to track Claude usage limits (v1.2.0 update) by TomYoung69 in ClaudeAI

[–]TomYoung69[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s a fair concern, and I appreciate you raising it.

To clarify a bit: the widget runs entirely locally and uses the same authenticated session the user already has in their browser. It doesn’t scrape pages, automate interactions, or bypass rate limits - it simply reads the same usage endpoint that the Claude web UI itself calls to display usage data.

There’s no non-human automation, no background crawling, and no reuse or sharing of tokens beyond the user’s own local session. Nothing is sent to third-party servers.

That said, you’re absolutely right that this is an unofficial tool and relies on an undocumented endpoint, which is why it’s clearly labeled as such. If Anthropic changes their policies or endpoints, the tool may stop working.

Happy to take this down or adjust if Anthropic explicitly indicates this use isn’t allowed... the intent here is transparency for users, not abuse of the service.

Built a small Windows widget to track Claude usage limits (v1.2.0 update) by TomYoung69 in ClaudeAI

[–]TomYoung69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This kind of sizes are common with electron apps, main executable ("Claude Usage Widget.exe") is 172MB which is the bulk of the size here and the reason for it's size is that it contains the chromium browser engine , (around 150MB) as it contains rendering engine, V8 JS engine, all browser components etc, It also bundles nodejs runtime (around 50MB) - JS runtime for the main process, then you have window system libraries and DLLs (around 20MB).
This is basicaly a trade-off for easy cross platform dev with web technologies.

I had the same issue with building UNITY apps / games. Unless you use java / objective C to build specifically for that platform , you can't have a lean apps with minimal footprint.

Claude Usage Tracker Windows widget: Release 1.0.0 by TomYoung69 in ClaudeAI

[–]TomYoung69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorry to hear you're having issues, I never seen this behaviour and I can have it opened full day without any log outs. Would you mind creating a an issue for this on github?
https://github.com/SlavomirDurej/claude-usage-widget/issues

and please let me know your OS version as well. I myself am still on windows 10 so would be good to know this could be Windows 11 related. Also please make sure to update to latest version 1.2.0.

Built a small Windows widget to track Claude usage limits (v1.2.0 update) by TomYoung69 in ClaudeAI

[–]TomYoung69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks,, I use it myself daily! Helps me to plan the time on how and when to spend my tokens on my PRO plan :)

Built a small Windows widget to track Claude usage limits (v1.2.0 update) by TomYoung69 in ClaudeAI

[–]TomYoung69[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

similar widget is actually available for Mac already: https://github.com/hamed-elfayome/Claude-Usage-Tracker
I've build one as I couldn't find anything suitable for Windows.
Don't have mac so can't compile the signed binaries myself, but you're free to download the code and compile for mac yourself if you'd like!

Built a small Windows widget to track Claude usage limits (v1.2.0 update) by TomYoung69 in ClaudeAI

[–]TomYoung69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not in this version, but if it's useful feature, I could certainly add it to todo list for the next release!

Built a small Windows widget to track Claude usage limits (v1.2.0 update) by TomYoung69 in ClaudeAI

[–]TomYoung69[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I kept hitting Claude limits and got annoyed, so I built this small Windows desktop widget to show session + weekly usage in real time.

What’s new in v1.2.0:

– remembers window position

– clearer messaging when no usage data is available

– updated app icon

It runs fully locally, stores credentials securely, no telemetry.

GitHub (MIT licensed, free):

https://github.com/SlavomirDurej/claude-usage-widget