Klaude Fuel Gauge · AI Usage
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Day: 44% Used · Week: 3d 22hr · Bal: USD $110.68

Don't hit the Claude Wall

Claude quietly limits your Day (5-hour session) and your Week. Klaude Fuel Gauge lives in your macOS menu bar — one glance tells you exactly where you stand on both.

USD $19.99 · one-time purchase · no subscription

🔒 Your credentials never leave your Mac · No accounts · No data collection · Live in under a minute

The problem: Claude cuts you off mid-task — without warning

Every Claude plan has hidden limits. Hit one and you're locked out mid-thought, mid-debug, mid-draft.

The 5-hour wall

A rolling session window quietly limits every conversation. No countdown, no warning — until you're stopped.

The weekly cap

A separate 7-day limit can cost you an entire Monday morning if you burned through it on the weekend.

Lost flow = lost money

For developers, writers, and teams, a surprise cut-off means broken focus, stalled work, and hours lost every week.

100% remaining — all clear

Colour-coded at a glance

Under 40% used — all clear
40% — heads up
70% — slow down
90%+ — nearly at limit
100% — stop, limit reached
Day
5-hour rolling session tracked live
Week
7-day window tracked alongside
<1 min
Guided setup to first reading
15 s – 2 h
Configurable refresh rate

One glance. One click. The whole picture.

Everything you need to stay ahead of your limits

Day Tracking — 5hr Session

Monitor your Day's 5-hour rolling window in real time — messages used and left, session clock, and exact reset time.

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Week Overview

Your 7-day window (all models) alongside the Day limit. Spot patterns before they cost you a Monday morning.

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Smart Alerts & Range Estimator

Alerts at 70% / 90% (adjustable) plus weekly thresholds. Predicts time-to-empty — “~14 min at this pace” — with an off-peak indicator for the best windows to batch heavy work.

Auto Tier Detection

Detects Pro, Max 5× or Max 20× automatically. The right limits from first launch — no configuration.

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Native macOS

SwiftUI + MenuBarExtra. One tiny icon, works across every app on your Mac — not just one browser tab.

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Apple Shortcuts & Siri

Four live actions expose session state, usage %, messages remaining, and time-to-empty. Threshold events can trigger your own Shortcuts.

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Quick Actions & Polling

Reset session window, export usage data, copy stats, pause tracking — all from one menu bar submenu.

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Fuel Lock

Optional self-control circuit breaker: hit your own hard limit and the app locks itself until the next reset.

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Usage History

A full log of past sessions with session % and weekly % against limits, 7-day averages, peaks and trends — plus one-click Copy History to Clipboard.

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Balance & Extra Usage

See your current account balance and any extra usage spend this period, right in the dropdown — no visit to claude.ai needed.

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Trend Arrows

Live direction indicators (↑ trending up, → stable, ↓ trending down) for both your session and weekly usage, so you can course-correct early.

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Fully Tunable

Adjust 5-hour and weekly message limits, polling cadence, menu bar readout, Launch at Login, notifications, Shortcuts and diagnostics — all from a native Settings window.

Live in under a minute

STEP 1Install from the Mac App StoreOne-time $19.99 · no subscription, no account to create
STEP 2Sign in via secure in-app windowOpens claude.ai directly · sandboxed · never touches your browser cookies
STEP 3Plan auto-detectedPro, Max 5× or Max 20× — the right limits, zero configuration
STEP 4Showing usage in your menu barGuided Setup Assistant · no manuals, no fiddly setup
That's it — install once and it just works. Tracking before your coffee cools.

Loved by Claude users everywhere

"As a UX designer I live in Claude all day. KFG means I can batch my heaviest sessions around my limits instead of being blindsided by them."

Christine K. · UX Designer · Beta tester

"The colour-coded icon is genius. Just glance at the menu bar and know exactly where I stand. No clicking needed."

Tom W. · Designer · Beta tester

"Losing productivity every time someone hit the Claude wall was a real cost. KFG has saved us hours every week."

Daniel F. · CTO · Beta tester

🔒 Private by design

Your credentials never leave your Mac. No accounts, no developer servers, no data collection. Sign-in lives in the app's own sandboxed container and never touches your browser's cookies.

Ready to stay in the zone?

Never lose flow mid-session again. One glance at your menu bar tells you exactly where you stand — for less than the cost of one lost afternoon.

One-time purchase · No subscription · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Requires Claude Pro or Max