3 live in your menu bar, right now

Tama

A tiny macOS menu-bar cat that watches your local AI coding-agent sessions.

See how many Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and Antigravity sessions are running — grouped by project, with live context and today's tokens. Read-only, local-only, never touches the network.

Download Tama.dmg macOS 13+ · menu-bar app View on GitHub

macOS 13+ · free · open source

Tama, a yellow pixel cat, walking Tama, a yellow pixel cat
What it shows

One glance, then the whole picture.

A pixel cat and a count sit in your menu bar; the count is how many sessions are active right now. Click it for the full picture, grouped provider → folder → session.

3 agents active
meow~
Rename app opus-4-8 48.2k~$1.40 3m
Fix tests opus-4-8 43.2k~$1.65 8m
TODAY CC 1.2M ~$4.10 CX 240k ~$0.80

tap any number · ctx live context · today total incl cache · fresh in+out · in input · out output · cache rd cache reads · cache wr cache writes

About Quit

↑ a real, clickable dropdown — expand a provider or folder

  • 3The count is live. It's how many agent sessions are running this second — nothing more.
  • ▾ tama-widgetGrouped by where you work. Provider, then project folder, then each session, newest first.
  • The bar is the context window. It fills and turns red as a session's conversation nears full.
  • TODAYThe daily tally. Every session's tokens added up, cache reads included.
0 agents active
zz

No sessions active right now.

TODAY CC 1.2M ~$4.10 CX 240k ~$0.80

tap any number · ctx live context · today total incl cache · fresh in+out · in input · out output · cache rd cache reads · cache wr cache writes

About Quit

Nothing running? The cat curls up for a nap.

When no sessions are active the count drops to 0 and Tama goes quiet — no noise, no nagging.

The one confusing bit

Two token numbers — and they're not the same thing.

Tama shows both, side by side. Here's the difference, once and for all.

ctx

Live context window

How full a session's conversation is right now. The gauge turns red as it nears full.

a single session · resets when the conversation does

TODAY

Cumulative tokens used today

Across every session, including cache re-reads — every turn re-reads the whole context, so this runs far larger.

1.2Mtokens today

all sessions combined · grows all day

Both numbers are real and useful. In the app, tap any number to break it down into input, output, cache-read, and cache-write.

A look around

More of the app.

Pin a window, tune the look, peek at the about screen — every pixel rendered live, light and dark.

3 agents active
meow~
CLAUDE CODE 1 proj · 2 active
tama-widget (2) 91.4k ~$3.05
Rename app opus-4-8 48.2k 6 ~$1.40 3m
Fix tests opus-4-8 43.2k 12 ~$1.65 8m
CODEX 1 proj · 0 active
TODAY CC 1.2M ~$4.10 CX 240k ~$0.80

tap any number · ctx live context · today total incl cache · fresh in+out · in input · out output · cache rd cache reads · cache wr cache writes

About Quit
Pin a resizable window — full session names and live message counts.

Settings

Appearance

System Light Dark

Text size

S M L

Preview

3 agents active

CC 1.2M  ~$4.10

Close
Appearance and text size, tuned to taste.

Yours to arrange.

Keep it tucked in the menu bar, or pin a window and let it breathe. Match your system theme or lock it light or dark. Bump the text size. Tama gets out of the way.

  • Resizable pinned window
  • Light · Dark · System
  • S · M · L text size
  • Launch at login
Provider support

What Tama can see, by tool.

Four agents, two levels of detail. Tama reads whatever each tool writes to its own logs.

Provider feature support: what Tama can read from each AI coding tool
Provider Active + folderLive ctxToday's tokensModelEst. cost
Claude Code ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Codex ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Gemini CLI ✓ — — — —
Antigravity ✓ — — — —

Gemini CLI and Antigravity appear by folder and recent activity only — their logs carry no token counts.

Install

Up and running in three steps.

No terminal, no account, no setup. Download, drag, open.

  1. Download

    Grab Tama.dmg — it's free and about the size of a photo.

  2. Drag to Applications

    Open the .dmg and drag Tama into your Applications folder.

  3. Open it once

    First launch: right-click Tama → Open, then click Open. (Tama isn't code-signed yet, so macOS asks just once.) The cat appears at the top-right of your menu bar.

Download Tama.dmg macOS 13+ · menu-bar app macOS 13+ · Apple silicon & Intel
FAQ

The honest answers.

Is it safe?

Yes. Tama is read-only and local-only — it reads your AI tools' own log files, never writes to them, never runs commands, and never connects to the internet. A test in the project snapshots your logs before and after each scan and proves they're byte-identical.

Does it cost money?

No — Tama is free and open-source (MIT). The ~$ it shows are estimates, not a bill.

Which tools does it work with?

Claude Code and Codex get full detail (live context, today's tokens, model, estimated cost). Gemini CLI and Antigravity show project + recent activity only.

Will it slow my Mac?

No. It makes one small, cached, read-only pass over local logs every few seconds and otherwise sits quietly in the menu bar — no background daemon.

Is any data sent anywhere?

Never. No analytics, no telemetry, no update checks, no network code at all. Everything stays on your Mac.