Blinken vs Throttle

A macOS menu bar utility that resurrects the HDD activity LED of pre-2010 personal computers. Quietly alive in your menu bar. Free, local-only, MIT licensed.

Know when Claude Code will hit its limit, before it stops your work. Throttle puts your 5-hour and weekly usage in the macOS menu bar, predicts your cap, runs every...

About Blinken

A macOS menu bar utility that resurrects the HDD activity LED of pre-2010 personal computers. Quietly alive in your menu bar. Free, local-only, MIT licensed. A small red lamp in your menu bar, brightening when your disk is working. Adaptive sampling means it's responsive when your disk is busy and quiet when your Mac is at rest. Warms toward orange when your Mac is leaning on the swap file. Open the dropdown for read & write totals since boot, RAM in use, swap on disk, and the kernel's pressure level.

About Throttle

Know when Claude Code will hit its limit, before it stops your work. Throttle puts your 5-hour and weekly usage in the macOS menu bar, predicts your cap, runs every project from one cockpit, and trims token waste. 100% local, no account. Run every project from one cockpit; idle sessions hibernate before RAM runs out. Exact when you're signed in, a clearly-degraded estimate when you're not, never a confident number that might be wrong.