Stop Paying for an AI Tracker You Barely Look At
SessionWatcher is a paid, commercial menu bar app to track your Claude Code usage. Why spend money on single-purpose utility tools? Notchyis a 100% free, native SwiftUI app that tracks your local limits directly from your Mac's notch.
Why Notchy is the ultimate SessionWatcher alternative
- Smart Pace Projections
Notchy's usage engine predicts if your current quota will last until reset, warning you before you hit a rate limit.
- 100% Free, No Subscriptions
SessionWatcher charges you just to see how many tokens your AI agent is burning. Notchy provides a richer, more visually stunning AI tracking experience completely for free. We believe basic system and API utilities shouldn't drain your wallet.
- Notch & Dynamic Island UI
SessionWatcher lives in the menu bar. Notchy turns your Mac's physical notch into an interactive Dynamic Island. You get an animated sunburst visualizer, live count-ups, and native shimmers right where you expect modern Apple interfaces to be.
- One App to Rule Them All
Notchy isn't just an AI tracker. It's a fully-fledged productivity hub. Along with checking your Claude Code limits, you get a clipboard manager, file drop shelf, Pomodoro timer, and Apple Music controls—all built native, taking ~0.1% CPU.
Everything Notchy does, for free
- Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
- Command palette (⌃⌥K) — every action one keystroke away
- Knock — double-tap a modifier key to open the notch
- AI usage tracker (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot)
- Detach any tab into a menu-bar popover
- Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
- Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
- Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
- Searchable clipboard — filter by text, file name, or OCR'd words
- On-device OCR — copy a screenshot, get its text (Apple Vision)
- Window snapping — drag a window to the notch to tile it
- App Launcher — pin apps to the notch, open with one tap
- Text snippets — TextExpander-style pastes from the ⌘K palette
- One-tap screen capture to clipboard + shelf
- Color eyedropper — sample any pixel, hex auto-copied
- System-wide mic mute for every meeting app at once
- Keystroke HUD for demos & screencasts (secure-input safe)
- Keyboard cleaning lock with countdown island (⌘⎋ unlocks)
- Menu-bar icon hiding — Bartender-style separator & chevron
- Live CPU / memory / network stats flyout
- Open GitHub PR count in the notch (Keychain-stored token)
- iPhone-style call island — Answer/Decline FaceTime on the notch
- Notch Terminal — real VT100/xterm shell in a PTY, its own tab
- Privacy Indicator — pill when any app's camera or mic goes live
- Caps Lock HUD — brief island on every toggle
- Full Charge island with adjustable threshold + low-battery sound
- Alt HUD styles — edge-pinned bar or circular gauge off the notch
- Audio-reactive Now Playing visualizer (real FFT of system audio)
- Custom closed-notch idle animation — drop in your own Lottie JSON
- Drag-and-drop file drop shelf — persists across relaunches
- Zip & unzip files right from the shelf
- Image converter (HEIC, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF) + video → GIF
- Run Apple Shortcuts with one tap
- Screenshots auto-staged on the shelf, ready to drag
- Download finished alerts with Reveal in Finder
- USB drive mount island with one-tap Eject
- Apple Reminders quick capture & due list
- macOS Pomodoro notch timer & stopwatch — streaks + 7-day chart
- Resizable expanded panel (width & height, live preview)
- System HUDs (volume, brightness, battery)
- Audio output switcher (speakers, AirPods, monitor)
- AirPods connection manager & battery
- Magic Mouse, Keyboard & Trackpad battery + low-battery alerts
- Quick notes & Calendar widgets
- Camera Mirror (check your appearance)
- Keep Awake (caffeine toggle)
- Teleprompter (Cuely) for Zoom calls
- Focus-aware alerts & native haptic feedback
- Lock screen widgets & hide-the-notch mode
- 133 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple Silicon
SessionWatcher alternative — FAQ
Is there a free SessionWatcher alternative for Mac?
Yes — Notchy. Instead of paying for AI usage tracking, you get a native SwiftUI Claude Code usage dashboard in your Mac’s notch for free.
Do I have to pay like SessionWatcher?
No. Notchy’s usage tracking — and every other feature — is completely free, funded only by optional donations.
Which AI providers does Notchy track?
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI/ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and DeepSeek — 60+ providers in total.
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