You bought a second Claude plan so you would not have to stop working — and then checking whether it has room meant signing into it.
Softcap sits in the menu bar and shows every plan at once: what is spent, what resets when, which account to open next.
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Why it exists
Softcap reads subscription usage directly for accounts added through the browser. These requests fetch limits without sending a prompt or running a model.
Codex works the same way: sign in through the browser and Softcap reads that account's usage directly from the service. Nothing is taken from the CLI's own files, so what you see never depends on when Codex last ran.
Several plans
A monitor that logs you out of the thing it monitors is worse than none. Softcap reads no credential belonging to Claude Code or Codex, and holds no copy of one — so signing out there, or switching accounts, changes nothing here.
Each subscription is added once in your browser and keeps a grant of its own, so several plans sit on screen together and each refreshes independently — whether or not a CLI is running, and whichever account it happens to be signed into.
Over time
One line per account. Colour means which account here and how loaded everywhere else, so the two scales never borrow from each other. The plans renew on different days — so at any hour, the picture says which account is fresh.
The dashed guides are where notifications fire: a nudge at 80%, a last warning at 95%. Every drop is a week's allowance renewing. And a break, like alex's, is a stretch with nothing measured; drawing across it would claim a reading nobody took.
The rest of it
The limit of the account you are working with, and how long until it frees up — without clicking. The strip can carry the countdown, the percentage, both, or just the icon, and a shortcut of your choosing opens the window without reaching for the mouse.
All four sizes on macOS. The same account row the window uses, so they cannot drift apart.
At 80% and 95% out of the box, or whichever levels you set instead — once per crossing, not once per poll.
Nothing arrives while you sleep, and nothing is delivered late to make up for it.
Including Arabic, laid out right to left. Switching takes effect immediately, with no restart.
Credentials stay in the keychain, never copied into preferences or logs. When something fails, the app sends a description of the failure to its author, stripped of paths, addresses and anything token-shaped before it leaves the machine — and it can be switched off. The only other request is a check for a new version, daily and while the update screen is open, and that can be switched off too.
Under it