No other Claude tracker tells you when — just that you're at 80%. Cavemode turns the burn rate into a countdown, a Sunday report, and a 7-day heatmap.
Burndown forecast
A countdown, not a number.
Projects the exact moment you hit 100% — per account. A countdown you can plan around, not just "you're at 80%."
Personal2h 14m
Work5h 02m
Codex1h 30m
7-day history
See when you run hottest.
A rolling 7-day heatmap shows when you run hottest. Spot the Tuesday binge before it costs you Wednesday.
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CoolerHotter
Weekly report
Seven days of grief.
GOLD · LV 10+YOUR WEEK IN
DEVOLUTION
●DAY 4 OF 7·Apr 21 → 24
⚠︎ Average 56% — steady week.
Your week’s dominant face was Clod.
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
⚠
Worst day
Thu · 78%
☘
Quiet day
Mon · 35%
⚰
Deaths
1 this week
⭐
Days survived
4 / 7
TIP OF THE WEEK
Thursday hits the wall at 78%. Block deep-work Thu-AM to stretch the cap.
↓4% vs last week — getting smarter.
On your Mac
Always on. Never in the way.
Cavemode lives in your menu bar, floats on your desktop, and runs every account at once — a glance shows your current character and usage, a click opens the full popover.
In your menu bar
A glance shows the whole story.
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"Clod's solution: turn off. Turn on. Slap."
Clod·Barely Functional Brute
Clod
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Clod
Resets in2h 47m 12s
Week42%Resets in4d 2h
Stay under 80% for 2 hours
+25 XP·READY
Menu bar + popoverA live devolution readout without leaving your keyboard.
Floating widget
When the menu bar isn't enough.
12%
−4h
Vertical · 140 × 224
12%·−4h
Horizontal · 250 × 100 (dock-friendly)
An always-on-top window — stage, session %, reset countdown. Drag anywhere, snap vertical or horizontal.
Two layouts — vertical (140 × 224) or horizontal (250 × 100, dock-friendly)
Resizable corner-grip with aspect lock; bounds 60–400pt per side
Character, percentage, and countdown each independently toggleable
Position remembered across monitors; clamps to visible screens
Multiple accounts
Run every account at once.
Watch several Claude accounts devolve side by side. Each gets its own
collision-free menu-bar mark; ⌘1 / ⌘2 / ⌘3 jump between them.
A distinct shape mark per account — legible in monochrome
Dashboard Overview ranks who has the most headroom now
Per-account theme, sounds, widget, and budget
Notification Center widget — small + medium
Personalmost headroom31%⌘1
Work88%⌘2
Codex47%⌘3
Make it yours
Six packs. Two live, more on the way.
Every released pack is free and covers all six devolution stages. Then tune the menu bar — seven layouts, themed sound packs, refresh from 30 to 300 seconds.
Classic Caveman
The default cavemen lineup.🔈 Classic Grunts
0–19%
20–39%
40–59%
60–79%
80–99%
100%
In your menu bar
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Hear it →
More character + sound packs on the way — every released pack free.
Sound packs
Classic GruntsUnlockedThe default caveman audio set — a grunt per stage.
MewlUnlockedCat tones for the Cat pack — wired and free.
SilentUnlockedNo audio. Pair with notifications-off for stealth mode.
Menu-bar display
Character + bar
2h
3d
Percent only
47%
Session + reset
47% · 2h
Weekly + reset
62% · 3d
Session / Weekly
47% / 62%
Full stats
47% · 2h / 62% · 3d
Icon only
How easy
Three steps to dignified despair.
30 seconds, 4 MB, free. Then you're watching it die.
01
Install in 30 seconds
Drop Cavemode into /Applications. 4 MB, notarised, universal binary. No installer, no agent, no extra permissions.
02
Paste your session cookie
Guided walk-through grabs the session key from claude.ai. Stored in the macOS Keychain. Never touches our servers — there are no servers.
03
Start burning through tokens
Watch the menubar character slide from robot to grunting caveman. Die dramatically at 100%. Slap a Mac until reset. Repeat.
Works with
Two providers. One menu bar.
Track OpenAI Codex next to Claude — sign in once with the Codex CLI, read on-device, no extra account. (cavemode.app build only.)
Anthropic Claude cavemode.appMac App Store
Pro / Max / Team / Enterprise. Paste your claude.ai session cookie once; Cavemode polls the same usage endpoint your browser uses. Auth: claude.ai session cookie → macOS Keychain
OpenAI Codex cavemode.app
ChatGPT Codex CLI sessions — plan tier auto-detected. cavemode.app build only because the App Store sandbox cannot read ~/.codex/. Auth: Codex CLI sign-in (~/.codex/auth.json) — read-only, on-device
Different shelf
Not a tracker. A pet.
Other Claude tools count tokens. Cavemode gives them a face — and a funeral.
ccusage
CLI tool · Free
Terminal output
Number on a screen
No character
No minigame
ClaudeBar
Menu bar app · Free
Bar chart
Numeric counter
No character
No minigame
Cavemode
Menu bar app · Free
6-stage character that dies
Funeral + shareable certificate
Slap Attack minigame at 100%
Character + sound packs, included free
Two ways to install
Same app. Pick your door.
Both are free and identical for live tracking, the six stages, the funeral + death certificate, the Slap Attack minigame, the floating + Notification Center widgets, every character and sound pack, and all reports. Only these differ:
Direct .dmg has everything. App Store build is click-only, no Codex. Compare →
FAQ
Questions you probably have.
Is Cavemode free?+
Completely. Every feature is free: unlimited accounts, all six stages, the Slap Attack minigame, the weekly devolution report, the multi-account floating widget, the Notification Center widget, the burndown forecast, and a clean (unwatermarked) shareable death certificate. Every character and sound pack is included free, with more on the way.
Will you add more characters?+
Yes — more character and sound packs are on the way, all included free. Each pack covers all six devolution stages.
Is this an official Anthropic product?+
Absolutely not. Cavemode is an independent third-party tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Anthropic PBC.
Is my Claude session key safe?+
Yes. Your session key is stored in the macOS Keychain on your machine and is only sent directly to claude.ai — the same API your browser uses. No third party ever sees it. Data never leaves your device.
Does this actually track real usage?+
Yes. Cavemode reads the same usage endpoint claude.ai uses internally. The comedy is free; the data is real. You'll see your session %, weekly %, and reset countdown.
Will this fix my rate limits?+
No. But you'll feel better about them. And when you hit 100%, there's a minigame so you have something to do besides refresh the settings page.
Does it work with Claude Pro / Max / Team / Enterprise?+
Pro, Max, and Team plans work out of the box. Enterprise SSO logins work if your session cookie is retrievable from claude.ai in a regular browser tab.
Does it work with OpenAI Codex?+
Yes — the cavemode.app build tracks OpenAI Codex usage alongside Claude. Sign in once with the Codex CLI (`codex login`) and Cavemode picks up your ChatGPT plan tier from ~/.codex/auth.json. Session + weekly limits are read from the same rate-limit blocks the CLI writes to ~/.codex/sessions/. Mac App Store build is Claude-only because the sandbox cannot reach ~/.codex/.
Intel or Apple Silicon?+
Universal binary — runs natively on both. Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.
Refund policy?+
14-day no-questions refund. cavemode.app build → request via the Polar customer portal (link is in your purchase email). Mac App Store build → standard Apple refund flow at reportaproblem.apple.com. Either way, the support link in the footer reaches us if you get stuck.
What's different between the cavemode.app and Mac App Store builds?+
Same app, same price — and identical for live tracking, the six stages, the funeral, the minigame, the widgets, the packs, and every report. Three things are cavemode.app only, because Apple's sandbox makes them impossible in the Store build: (1) the opt-in laptop-slap minigame input (Apple Silicon MacBook only — reads the hidden motion sensor; the Store build is click-only); (2) OpenAI Codex tracking (the sandbox can't read ~/.codex/); and (3) the AI agent activity bubbles in the floating widget (the sandbox can't touch ~/.claude/settings.json). The Mac App Store build gives you Apple's update + refund flow instead. See the side-by-side comparison above the pricing section to pick.
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