Show HN: Token Time – Screen Time, but for your AI agent tokens
Token Time is a macOS menu bar app that tracks your AI agent token usage and cost, with full-screen nudges to help you take breaks. It runs locally and privately, with no cloud or telemetry.
Token Time - Screen Time, but for your tokens.
A menu-bar meter for your AI usage
Screen Time but for your tokens.
Token Time meters every token your AI agents burn and taps you on the shoulder when it's time to take a break.
Get Token Time · $6See how it works
Launch price · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon
Token Time
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LOCK SCREEN
Show every100M tokens
A full-screen reminder appears every time today's usage passes another 100M tokens. It auto-dismisses after 10s.
Everything it does
A quiet meter for an unstoppable habit.
Menu-bar meter
Your live token count and today's spend, always one glance away in the macOS menu bar. No dashboard to open.
Live usage chart
See tokens by the hour across the day, so you can spot the runaway sessions the moment they start climbing.
Cost & per-model breakdown
Tokens, dollars, and how today compares to your baseline, split by model, so you know exactly where spend goes.
Lock-screen nudges
A full-screen reminder every time you cross a threshold. It auto-dismisses in 10s, just enough to make you look up.
Configurable thresholds
Set the nudge to fire every N million tokens. Tune how often Token Time interrupts you, or barely at all.
Runs locally, stays private
No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Your usage data never leaves your Mac. Download it and it just works.
Always on
Live in your menu bar
Token Time runs quietly in the background and keeps today's usage right where you can see it. Click the icon for the full picture: the hourly chart, the running cost, and your lock-screen settings.
Today's tokens and cost, always visible
Hourly chart, broken down per model
One click for the full dropdown
The break
Get the short break you deserve
When you've been heads-down too long, Token Time gently takes over your screen for ten seconds. Breathe, stretch, look away. Then it hands the day back to you.
Fires every N million tokens, you choose
Auto-dismisses after 10 seconds
A full-screen cue to actually step away
Private by design
Your usage stays on your Mac.
No account to create, no server to phone home to. Token Time reads your usage locally and keeps every number on your device.
No account
Download and run. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing to log in to.
No cloud
Your data never leaves the machine. No sync, no upload, no third parties.
No telemetry
Token Time doesn't track you back. What happens on your Mac stays there.
Pricing
One price. Yours to keep.
Launch price
Token Time
$6$8one-time
Menu-bar meter and live usage chart
Full-screen break reminders
Every model tracked
Runs 100% local, no account
One-time purchase, no subscription
Get Token Time · $6
macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon
Put a meter on the machine.
Local, private, and Mac-native. Yours for a one-time $6.
Get Token Time · $6
Launch price · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon