Track your AI-coding token burn. Privately.

Most trackers spy to count

There’s an easy way to see your AI usage, and a right way. The easy way reads your browser cookies and digs through your Keychain. Burnbar refuses to.

Burnbar vs. browser-based trackers

Same glanceable menu-bar number. A completely different deal with your privacy.

* Your usage never leaves your Mac apart from the optional daily leaderboard summary, which uploads only if you opt in.

How it works

1. 1

   Reads local logs

   Burnbar parses the usage logs Claude Code and OpenAI Codex already write to ~/.claude and ~/.codex. Token counts, models, and timestamps only — never your prompts or code.

2. 2

   Syncs across devices

   Per-machine rollups sync privately through your own iCloud Drive, so usage from every Mac you code on adds up in one place. Nothing touches a Burnbar server.

3. 3

   Opt-in leaderboard

   Choose to share, and Burnbar uploads a tiny daily summary to climb the global leaderboard. Off by default, and you decide every time. The public leaderboard is rolling out soon — opt in now and you'll appear once it's live.

The privacy promise

Privacy is the whole point. Burnbar measures your usage without ever seeing what you build.

Local CLI logs only

Burnbar reads only Claude Code and OpenAI Codex logs under ~/.claude and ~/.codex on your machine.

Never your browser or Keychain

No browser cookies, local storage, or third-party Keychain items. Burnbar touches only its own credentials.

Never your content

Prompts, code, project names, file paths, and git details are never read for upload — only counts, models, and dates.

Minimal opt-in upload

If you join the leaderboard, each uploaded row is only { date, provider, tokens, cost_usd } — no prompts, paths, project names, machine ids, or raw model names. Rows are tied to your public GitHub identity (github_id, github_login), read from your sign-in, so they can appear on the public leaderboard.

Installing Burnbar

Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Burnbar lives in your menu bar — there is no Dock icon, so after launch look for it up top, next to the clock.

1. 1

   Download Burnbar

   Grab the latest macOS build using the Download button above.

2. 2

   Move it to Applications

   Unzip the download and move Burnbar.app into the Applications folder.

3. 3

   Open it the first time

   Right-click (or Control-click) Burnbar.app in Applications and choose Open, then confirm in the dialog. This one-time step is needed because this build isn’t notarized by Apple yet — after that, launch it normally.

Version

0.1.0 · released May 30, 2026

Download size

2.3 MB · Burnbar-v0.1.0.zip

SHA-256 checksum

063176020699b94b4bd3b490e6e48c6141eb64ea05c87902d94ffbc9e37c7cae

Signing

Ad-hoc signed — notarization in progress. Right-click → Open on first launch.

Verify the source

Release notesView source on GitHub