relaybar
- Swift
- macOS
- Developer Tools
A focused macOS menu-bar tool for people who run multiple AI coding accounts every day. It keeps account pools, remaining quota, and throttled states visible before a run stalls.
At a glance
Role Sole author
Problem
AI-coding sessions can fail because quota or account-pool status is invisible until a provider throttles a run. The user needs a small early-warning surface, not another dashboard to keep open.
Solution
I built a native macOS menu-bar app that polls quota and account status, then keeps the signal one click away so users can switch pools before a coding run stalls.
Impact
Open-source MIT macOS menu-bar tool · built for daily AI-coding account monitoring
My contribution
- Live menu-bar readout of account pool + remaining quota across providers
- Clear signal when a pool is exhausted or throttled, so you can switch before a run stalls
- Low-distraction, always-on surface that lives in the macOS menu bar
Technical evidence
- Native Swift menu-bar app; polls provider quota endpoints on an interval
- Built from the seat of a daily Codex / Claude Code / Antigravity user — the real pain is account-pool rotation, quota exhaustion, and multi-provider context, not model quality
- Open source under MIT; a small, focused macOS tool that turns daily account-limit problems into an early warning signal
Why it exists
It comes from a daily coordination problem: people using several AI-coding accounts need to know which pool still has quota before a run stops halfway. relaybar is a native Swift app in the macOS menu bar that polls provider quota endpoints and keeps each pool's state visible.
It's open source under MIT and framed around the problem it solves rather than any star count: a small macOS tool that makes invisible quota limits visible early enough to act.
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