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CodexWinBar Itay Cohen

ai claude codex cursor developer-tools taskbar usage
Use this command to install CodexWinBar:
winget install --id=ItayCohen.CodexWinBar -e

CodexWinBar is a Windows 11 taskbar widget designed to display real-time limits and usage metrics for AI coding providers like Codex, Claude, Copilot, and more. It provides developers with instant visibility into session and weekly usage quotas, reset countdowns, credit balances, and live status updates.

Key Features:

  • Real-Time Usage Tracking: Monitors session and weekly limits for supported AI providers.
  • Reset Countdowns: Shows how much time remains before usage windows reset.
  • Credit Management: Displays available credits and usage projections to avoid overruns.
  • Provider Status Updates: Alerts users to outages or maintenance via live status feeds.
  • Taskbar Integration: Positions itself seamlessly on the Windows 11 taskbar for easy access.

Target Audience and Benefits:

Ideal for developers, data scientists, and AI engineers who rely on multiple coding providers. CodexWinBar helps users stay within usage limits, manage credits efficiently, and avoid unexpected token overruns. It is available via winget for quick deployment, making it a practical tool for streamlining AI development workflows.

CodexWinBar supports popular tools like Claude, Copilot, Gemini, OpenRouter, and Cursor, ensuring developers can track their usage across multiple platforms in one convenient location.

README

CodexWinBar 🎚️ — May your tokens never run out. Now on Windows.

> Supported AI coding limits, on your Windows 11 taskbar.

Website: codexwinbar.webivize.com

CodexWinBar is a native Windows 11 rebuild of steipete/CodexBar (the macOS menu-bar app, MIT). It puts your AI coding-provider usage limits directly on the taskbar — positioned next to the system tray so it looks like it was always part of Windows — with per-provider session and weekly windows, reset countdowns, credits, and live provider-status incidents.

What it does

  • Taskbar overlay widget — a compact, non-activating layered window positioned over the taskbar on the side opposite the clock, showing tiny session/weekly gauges and percent text per provider. It sizes itself to the free space beside your taskbar apps, collapsing from full gauges → single gauge → compact icons as you add providers (never a scrollbar), and gently bounces the provider you're on pace to run out of first. A widget is tracked per taskbar, recreated after Explorer restarts, and hidden when that taskbar retracts or a fullscreen app occupies its monitor.
  • Fluent flyout — click the widget for provider cards: usage bars, "resets in 2h 13m" countdowns, model-specific windows, reset credits, credit balances, plan/account identity, and live status incidents (Statuspage/Google Workspace feeds). Optional pace indicator projects whether you're on track to run out early, and clicking a provider opens its web dashboard. Acrylic backdrop, rounded corners, light/dark aware.
  • Native engine — zero-dependency .NET 9: OAuth token refresh, per-provider fetch pipelines with fallback strategies, single-flight coalescing, reset-boundary refresh (re-poll ~30s after a window resets), quota threshold notifications.
  • Config-compatible with CodexBar — reads/writes the same ~/.config/codexbar/config.json (CODEXBAR_CONFIG and legacy ~/.codexbar honored; unknown fields and providers round-trip untouched), so a dotfile-synced setup works across macOS and Windows.

Providers (v1)

Provider
Versions
1.1.21
1.1.20
1.1.0
Website
github.com
License
Last updated
8/6/2026
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Source
Auth
CodexChatGPT backend usage + reset creditsBrowser OAuth built into CodexWinBar (auto-refresh)
Claudeapi.anthropic.com OAuth usageBrowser OAuth built into CodexWinBar (auto-refresh)
Copilotcopilot_internal/user quota snapshotsGitHub device flow (built into Settings)
GeminiPro/Flash model quota (registered, off until connected)Browser OAuth built into CodexWinBar; Gemini CLI required
OpenRoutercredits + key limitsAPI key
OpenAI Adminorganization spend for the trailing 30 days + todayAdmin API key
z.aicoding-plan quotaAPI key
Cursor (experimental)best-effort plan + Auto/Composer + on-demand usageBrowser session cookie

CodexWinBar does not require Codex CLI, Claude Code, or Codex Desktop to be installed. Connect Codex, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot from Settings → Providers using their built-in sign-in flows. Gemini setup requires Gemini CLI because CodexWinBar reads its OAuth client configuration. The rest are enabled there with the credential type shown above. Every provider, including Gemini, starts disabled until you connect it. Cursor uses undocumented dashboard endpoints whose response shape can change, so its integration is experimental and intentionally best-effort. Upstream's 50+ provider catalog is on the roadmap — the remaining browser-cookie and WebView2 seams (Windsurf, Ollama quota, …) are deferred to a later release.

Install

Winget (recommended)

Paste this into PowerShell or Windows Terminal:

winget install CodexWinBar --interactive

Winget downloads and verifies the published package, installs it per-user without administrator access, and --interactive lets the one-click installer launch CodexWinBar when installation finishes.

Direct PowerShell installer

If you cannot use Winget, paste this alternative into PowerShell:

irm https://codexwinbar.webivize.com | iex

This downloads the latest release, verifies its SHA-256 against the checksum GitHub publishes for the asset, installs it per-user, and launches CodexWinBar. The script is readable and only downloads from this repository's own GitHub releases.

Updating

From version 1.1.8 onward, open Settings → General → App updates to check, download, and restart into the latest release. If the taskbar widget is inaccessible, Settings can also be opened directly:

& "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\CodexWinBar\current\CodexWinBar.exe" --settings

Older installs can update in place through the app or by running either installation command again. There is no need to uninstall or delete anything; provider sign-ins and settings are preserved.

Both installation methods add Start Menu and desktop shortcuts and launch CodexWinBar after installation. After installing, connect the providers you use in Settings → Providers — Codex, Claude and Gemini sign in through your browser, Copilot uses GitHub's device flow, and OpenRouter, OpenAI Admin, z.ai and Cursor take an API key or cookie. Nothing is connected until you sign in.

Direct download / build from source

Direct download: grab CodexWinBar-win-Setup.exe from the Releases page and run it. Because it isn't code-signed yet, Windows SmartScreen shows an "Unknown publisher" prompt — click More info → Run anyway (one-time). The Winget and PowerShell options above are recommended for the simplest installation.

Build from source: requires Windows 11 and the .NET 9 SDK.

git clone https://github.com/ItayCohen-Prog/CodexWinBar.git
cd CodexWinBar
dotnet publish src/CodexWinBar.App/CodexWinBar.App.csproj -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishReadyToRun=true -o artifacts/publish
artifacts\publish\CodexWinBar.exe

To produce a full installer locally: ./build/pack-windows.ps1 (needs dotnet tool install -g vpk --version 1.2.0).

Right-click the widget (or the tray icon) for Refresh / Settings / Quit. "Launch at login" lives in Settings → General. Logs: %LOCALAPPDATA%\CodexWinBar\logs\app.log.

Privacy

CodexWinBar keeps your credentials on your machine. Its built-in provider sign-ins store OAuth sessions encrypted for your Windows user under %LOCALAPPDATA%\CodexWinBarData\credentials, and it talks only to each provider's own API to fetch your usage — there is no CodexWinBar server, account, or telemetry, and nothing about your usage leaves your computer.

Architecture

C# / .NET 9, one runtime dependency — Velopack for the installer and auto-update; the app itself otherwise has zero external NuGet dependencies (test projects excepted):

  • CodexWinBar.Core — provider abstraction (descriptor + ordered fetch strategies), CodexBar-compatible config store, refresh scheduler, status poller.
  • CodexWinBar.Providers — one folder per provider; contributions need only a descriptor + strategy + parser.
  • CodexWinBar.Widget — pure Win32: per-taskbar overlay lifecycle and positioning on dedicated STA threads, with a GDI+ → UpdateLayeredWindow renderer.
  • CodexWinBar.App — WPF shell: flyout, settings, tray icon, quota notifications, single instance.

Design docs and the upstream protocol research live in docs/windows-port/.

Credits & license

This is a fork/rebuild of CodexBar by Peter Steinberger — all product concepts, provider protocol research, and the original macOS implementation are his. The Windows port reuses upstream's provider documentation (docs/) as its protocol source of truth.

MIT — same as upstream.