UsageNow Mac App Unifies AI Coding Tool Usage Tracking in Menu Bar

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A developer has released UsageNow, a native macOS app that consolidates usage data from multiple AI coding tools — including OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity — into a single menu bar view. The app displays available usage limits, reset times, and today's token and request activity per model, along with small and medium desktop widgets. Each supported tool exposes its data differently, so UsageNow reads locally stored session files and, where applicable, communicates only with local servers or the tool's own authentication endpoints. The app has no account system or remote server of its own, and it does not collect prompts, source code, or conversation content. Where usage limits are unavailable from a provider, UsageNow explicitly says so rather than displaying estimated or placeholder figures.

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