Earn Rare Candy
Fill a 5-hour or weekly limit to earn Rare Candy. Use it from the Bag to grow your partner.
Your tokens.A little companion.
A Pokémon that grows as you code. Track your AI token usage and limits, right from your Mac’s menu bar.
Free · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
The tokens you already use become progress. Your usual workflow, with a little company.
Make room for
a little company.
You’ll need macOS 14 or later and at least one supported AI coding tool. No PokeTokenBar account needed.
Release notesInstall with Homebrew
- Open Terminal on your Mac.
- Copy and run the command below.
- Open PokeTokenBar from Applications.
brew install --cask chattymin/tap/poke-token-barPrefer a direct download?
Download ZIP for macOS
Unzip PokeTokenBar.zip and move PokeTokenBar.app into Applications.
The app is self-signed. If macOS blocks the first launch, follow the Gatekeeper steps in the installation guide. Homebrew handles the quarantine attribute for you.
Open installation guideYour coding grows a Pokémon.
The tokens you use with AI coding tools hatch an egg and grow your partner. Keep coding, watch it evolve, and keep each graduated Pokémon in your collection.
Start with an egg
Your first tokens bring you closer to hatching.
Meet your partner
An egg hatches into a surprise Pokémon.
Code. Grow. Evolve.
Used tokens advance its evolution line.
Keep it in your Pokédex
Graduate your partner and welcome a new egg.
Illustration: Bulbasaur’s evolution line. Your partner and growth pace vary. No extra AI requests are made to grow a Pokémon.
Less checking.
More coding.
Today’s tokens, usage trends and provider limits live together. Open the menu bar when you need the details; keep working when you don’t.
See the reset coming
Official limits for Claude, Codex and Antigravity, with reset timing and optional notifications.
Explore the details
Token Shop
Use tokens you’ve already spent to get Rare Candy, nature-changing Mints, a Shiny Charm or a new egg.
Representative Pokémon
Pin an owned species to the menu bar and desktop pet. Your current partner keeps growing in Home.
Individual Pokémon profiles
Get to know each Pokémon’s individual values, ability and moves in its profile.
Live token usage
See the total from your supported tools in the menu bar. Open the popover for a breakdown by provider.
Official limits
Claude, Codex and Antigravity limits with reset countdowns and clock times. Choose used or remaining; percentages stay aligned with matching progress bars.
Burn-rate forecast
Estimate when your current 5-hour window will reach 100%, based on your current usage rate.
Localized
Seven UI languages. Pokémon, type, ability and move names follow your selected language, with English when a translation is unavailable.
Notifications
Choose alerts for approaching usage limits, hatching, evolution and graduation.
Additional scan folders
Add per-provider scan folders when your logs live outside the default locations. Wildcards and a live match count help you find them.
Official limits without the Keychain
Use a claude.ai session key in Settings → Advanced to read official Claude limits without Keychain prompts.
Per-model breakdown
Pi usage follows the model recorded for each turn. The popover breaks today's Pi tokens down by model, biggest first.
This month, day by day
See this month’s daily token totals across all tools in the popover. Hover a bar for that day’s usage.
Growth at your pace
Set difficulty from 10% to 200% and apply it with Save. Your earned progress is preserved. Hatches from a previously graduated base species grow twice as fast.
A workday,
with a side quest.
Your existing token usage raises a partner through its real evolution line. Then a new egg arrives, and the collection grows.
Hatch your first partner
An egg hatches after 5M tokens at the default difficulty. Which Pokémon will it be?
Watch it grow
Keep coding to evolve. Adjust difficulty to suit your own pace.
Keep the memories
Graduated partners stay in your collection. A fresh egg starts the next chapter.
Or, right beside you.
Let your partner out of the menu bar. Drag it anywhere, hover to check usage, and click to open the app.
Curious how it grows?
Try your pace, check the costs, and see what you can collect. Too many tokens? Lower the difficulty in the app to grow with fewer tokens.
Tokens per evolution
A three-form example at 100% difficulty, without the repeat-species bonus or items. The table excludes the 5M-token hatch; the calculator includes it. One- and two-form lines split the same total differently.
| Rarity | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 (graduate) | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | 125M | 250M | 375M | 750M |
| Uncommon | 312.5M | 625M | 937.5M | 1.875B |
| Rare | 500M | 1B | 1.5B | 3B |
| Legendary | 1B | 2B | 3B | 6B |
How long on my pace?
How many AI-coding tokens do you burn per day? (total, including cache reads)
Estimates assume a constant daily pace. Difficulty, items and the 2× post-hatch bonus for previously graduated species change the result.
Your companion responds to your coding rhythm, changing its pose and caption as you work.
no tokens todayFast asleep
When you rest, it rests. Weekend menu bars are quiet.
light useLoafing around
On lighter days, your partner idles beside you.
coding steadilyWorking along
Your normal pace. It keeps busy too.
100k+ tokens/minIn the zone
When your agents are busy, your partner keeps up.
limit almost reachedWorn out
When a usage limit is close, it tires before you do. Take the hint.
evolution · graduationCelebrating
A short animation marks each evolution and graduation.
Hatching has its own animation. A Shiny hatch gets a different entrance.
Every graduation adds to your collection and brings a new egg.
| To collect | How it works |
|---|---|
| Species | Pokémon from Generations I–V, drawn from the app’s live species pool. Each hatch is a surprise. |
| Rarities | Four tiers, Common to Legendary. Rarer partners hatch less often and need more tokens to graduate. |
| ✨ Shiny | A rare surprise at hatch: different colors that stay through evolution. |
| Natures | One of 25 natures per hatch gives each partner its character. |
| Branches | Branching evolution lines prefer paths you have not collected yet. |
| Pokédex | The catch log records individual partners and their evolution lines. The Pokédex groups the species you have owned. |
13 tools. One companion.
Works with your coding tools
A few good questions.
Is it free?
Yes. PokeTokenBar is a free, open-source fan project. Shop items use the tokens you’ve already spent on coding, not real-money purchases.
Does it upload my usage logs?
No. Usage logs stay on your Mac. The app still uses the network for provider usage and limits, Pokémon data and sprites, service status and updates. It is not a fully offline app.
Does raising a Pokémon spend extra tokens?
No. The app reads usage from your supported coding tools. It doesn’t run model turns to grow your companion.
Can I build it myself?
Yes. The Swift source, build instructions and issue tracker are on GitHub.
GitHub