Desktop Meter

Your live AI usage, sitting in your menu bar

A tiny meter that watches your AI coding tools and shows your token count, spend, and how close you are to your limit — live. It also feeds those numbers to your phone and watch. No API keys.

Simulated preview

What it does

The desktop meter is the heart of Vibe Guard — the same live monitor the paid apps build on. It reads the logs your AI coding tools already write on your computer and turns them into a running total.

Live token count & spend

Counts today’s tokens and dollar cost across Claude desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more — all in one number.

Limit countdowns

Shows your rolling 5-hour window and weekly limit with reset times, so you wrap up before you get cut off.

Feeds your phone & watch

Pushes the same numbers to the Vibe Guard app through your account — check your usage anywhere.

Private by design

No API keys. It only reads usage counts from local logs — never your prompts or your code.

On a provider API key? You don’t even need the meter — the phone app reads your usage straight from the provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI). The meter is for plan/subscription users (Claude Max, Codex).

Download & set up

Pick your computer. The first time it runs, sign in with your Vibe Guard account — that links this computer to you automatically. No codes to copy.

macOS

Mac

  1. Download and open the .dmg.
  2. Drag Vibe Guard Meter into Applications.
  3. Open it — sign in with your account, and it shows your live count.
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Windows

Windows

  1. Download and unzip.
  2. If you don’t have Python, install it (the README shows where).
  3. Double-click Start VibeGuard Meter.
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Linux

Linux

  1. Download and unzip.
  2. Run ./start-vibeguard-meter.sh (Python 3 is usually built in).
  3. It shows your live count once you sign in.
Download for Linux
Want a tray icon with no window on Windows/Linux? Each download includes a short guide for the tray version. A true one-click app for Windows/Linux is on the way.

The foundation of everything else

Start with the meter. Upgrade later for all-tools aggregation, the context-window gauge, limit alerts, and the on-device Coach.