General usageWeekly usage limit
18%left
◷ Resets in 3d 7h
ChatGPT + Codex allowance
Use your plan deliberately.
A native macOS menu-bar app that shows your ChatGPT and Codex allowance at a glance—so you can tune the model, reasoning, and pace before the work stops.
ChatGPT + CodexAllowance at a glance
Five-minute refreshStays reliably current
No analyticsPrivate by design
Free · Native for Apple silicon · macOS 14+ · Private by design
Gaugeletnow
Weekly allowance is low · 18% left
18%GaugeletChatGPT plan usage
ChatGPT plan usageChatGPT plan
Most constrained returned limit
Other returned limits
5 hour usage limit68% left
Resets in 2h 13mWeekly usage limit88% left
Codex Spark · Resets in 5d 2hDemo data — not your account
ThemeDracula
Allowance18%
Switch themes. Burn the allowance. See the warning before your work stops.
Your plan, at a glance
Stay ahead of the limit.
Gaugelet keeps the overall, weekly, and special-model windows for your ChatGPT plan in stable positions when Codex returns them. Missing windows stay unavailable; any additional windows appear below them.
0174%
5-hour
Resets in 2h 18m
0242%
Weekly
Resets Monday
0388%
Codex Spark
Weekly window
Example values only. Your available windows come from Codex on your Mac.
Made for the Mac
Useful enough to keep open. Beautiful enough to belong.
Gaugelet is a focused macOS utility—not a web dashboard squeezed into a desktop window. It is built for Apple silicon, lives in the menu bar, follows your Mac’s appearance, and stays out of the way until you need it.
01 · Make it yours
Seven themes. One glanceable gauge.
Choose a look that fits your desktop—from quiet Core and Mono to Dark Dracula, 8-Bit, and Pride. The menu-bar icon and in-app accents update together while the signed system icon stays consistently Gaugelet.
Core
Dark Dracula
Ember
Moss
Mono
8-Bit
Pride
02 · Native by design
Made for Apple silicon.
A native arm64 app for macOS 14 and newer, with launch at login, light and dark appearance support, and optional native notifications.
Codex→Your Mac
03 · Local-first privacy
Your allowance is not our business.
No Gaugelet account, analytics, telemetry, usage-history upload, or LammWorks backend. Gaugelet reads the local Codex App Server and displays the result on your Mac.
macOS 14+Apple siliconLight + darkLaunch at loginNative notifications
A gauge for real decisions
Use the plan you already paid for—deliberately.
When the remaining allowance is visible, small choices stay small. You can lower capability or pace and keep moving instead of discovering the limit only when the work stops.
Model
Choose the capability the task actually needs.
Reasoning
Spend depth where it creates a better result.
Pace
Slow the burn before a hard stop ends the run.
Honest by design
Local readings. Clear limits.
Gaugelet asks the local Codex App Server for the same rate-limit windows Codex exposes on your Mac. It refreshes every five minutes, or whenever you ask.
1Codex App ServerLocal source
→2GaugeletNo account or backend
→3Menu barFive-minute view
Private by default
Your usage stays on your Mac.
No Gaugelet account, analytics, telemetry, backend, or usage-history upload. Sparkle contacts GitHub only to check the signed update feed.
Read the privacy policyIndependent, on purpose
One developer. One useful little Mac app.
I’m Diego, the independent developer behind Gaugelet. The app is free and open source. If it earns a permanent place in your menu bar, a coffee helps fund the unglamorous work: testing new macOS releases, keeping updates healthy, and polishing the details.
Diego · LammWorksIndependent maker in Panama
Gaugelet 1.0
See the limit before it becomes the problem.
Free, open source, private by default, and built for Apple-silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later.