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Claude Code Usage Bubble
A floating, draggable circular bubble that shows your Claude Code and/or Codex usage on Windows — inspired by the floating "memory boost ball" UX of 360 Security and IObit Advanced SystemCare.
Drop it anywhere on screen, drag it around, snap it to a monitor edge, left-click for a panel with both your 5-hour and 7-day windows, right-click for the menu.
Acknowledgements
Inspired by CodeZeno/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor, which solves the same "how close am I to the Claude Code limit?" problem with a horizontal taskbar widget. This project takes the UX in a different direction — a floating, draggable circular bubble that the user can place anywhere on screen — and is a clean-room implementation: the HTTP client, provider polling, credential discovery, tray rendering, and self-updater are all written from scratch against the same public APIs (Anthropic, ChatGPT, GitHub Releases).
What you get
- A circular floating bubble showing your current 5-hour Claude Code or Codex usage as a percentage and a colored progress ring
- Drag anywhere — the bubble snaps to monitor work-area edges when released
- Resize with
Ctrl + MouseWheelon the bubble, or use Controls → Make smaller / Make larger / Reset size from the right-click menu (140–360 logical pixels) - Left-click the bubble for an expanded panel with both 5h and 7d bars plus reset countdowns
- Right-click for refresh, displayed providers, update frequency, startup, updates, exit
- Optional system tray icons (one per enabled provider)
- Auto-hide when a fullscreen app is in the foreground (games, video, presentations) — reappears when you leave fullscreen
Who this is for
Windows 10/11 users who already have Claude Code (CLI or App) installed and signed in on Windows. Codex support is optional — install and sign in to the Codex CLI, then enable Codex from the right-click Providers menu.
Requirements
- Windows 10 or Windows 11
- Claude Code (CLI or App) installed and authenticated
- Optional: Codex CLI installed and authenticated, if you want Codex usage
Install
Download the latest release
Grab claude-code-usage-bubble.exe from the
Releases page.
Put it anywhere on disk (e.g. %LOCALAPPDATA%\ClaudeCodeUsageBubble\) and
run it. The app self-updates from the same Releases feed.
First-run note: the binary is unsigned, so SmartScreen will show "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway. Code signing is on the roadmap.
Build from source
git clone https://github.com/tiennm99/claude-code-usage-bubble
cd claude-code-usage-bubble
cargo build --release
The binary lands at target/release/claude-code-usage-bubble.exe.
Use
Run claude-code-usage-bubble.exe. The bubble appears near the bottom-right
corner of your primary monitor on first launch. Drag it where you want it,
release to snap to the nearest edge if you let go close to one.
- Left-click the bubble to open the expanded panel (5h + 7d + countdowns)
- Right-click for refresh, providers, refresh frequency, "Start with Windows", controls, auto-update check (Disabled / Hourly / Daily / Weekly), manual "Check for updates", exit
- Drag anywhere — it floats on top of all other windows
- Ctrl + MouseWheel on the bubble, or Controls in the right-click menu, to resize it
- Tray icon (if enabled): left-click toggles the bubble visibility, right-click opens the same menu
Providers
Use the right-click Providers menu to choose what is shown:
- Claude Code is enabled by default
- Codex can be enabled alongside Claude Code or shown by itself
- OpenCode Go is listed for future support; usage bars remain disabled until OpenCode exposes a stable quota source or console integration is explicitly enabled
When multiple providers are shown, each gets its own bubble that you can position independently.
Diagnostics
claude-code-usage-bubble.exe --diagnose
This writes a log file to:
%TEMP%\claude-code-usage-bubble.log
Settings are saved to:
%APPDATA%\ClaudeCodeUsageBubble\settings.json
Privacy and security
What the app reads:
- Your local Claude Code OAuth credentials from
~/.claude/.credentials.json - If Codex is enabled, your local Codex credentials from
$CODEX_HOME/auth.jsonor~/.codex/auth.json
What the app sends over the network:
- Requests to Anthropic's Claude endpoints to read your usage
- Requests to ChatGPT's Codex usage endpoint, if Codex is enabled
- Requests to GitHub only if you use the app's update-check feature
What the app stores locally:
- Bubble position(s) per model
- Bubble size
- Polling frequency
- Last update check time
- Displayed provider preferences
What it does not do: send credentials to any third-party server, run a
backend service, collect analytics, upload your project files, or write to
your Codex auth.json directly.
License
Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE.