Last updated: 11 September 2026
LimitWatch is a menu-bar app that shows how much of your Claude usage limit is left. It has no servers, no accounts and no analytics. Nothing you do in the app is sent anywhere, and the developer receives no data about you at all.
Claude Code-credentials), using the system's own
tool /usr/bin/security. The token is used to ask Anthropic for your usage
figures and for nothing else. It is never written to disk by LimitWatch, never logged and
never transmitted to anyone but Anthropic.
claude --version.
Only the version number is used, and only to identify the client in the request.
~/.claude.json — the
file Claude Code writes when you log in. LimitWatch reads one field from it, the email
address, so the panel can say whose limits it is showing; a person with a work account and a
personal one otherwise cannot tell. The address is displayed masked, is never sent anywhere,
and is not written to the app's own files. Nothing in that file is modified.
api.anthropic.com for your own usage figures, carrying your own
token. This is the same endpoint Claude Code uses, and the response is governed by
Anthropic's privacy policy.
status.claude.com to show whether the Claude service is healthy.
It carries no token and nothing identifying you.
registry.npmjs.org for the published version numbers of the
@anthropic-ai/claude-code package, so the app can say whether a newer Claude
Code exists. It carries no token, does not name this app, and says nothing about you.
Those three hosts are all of it. No telemetry, no crash reporting, no analytics, no advertising — and the app's own windows load nothing from the network at all.
Both live in the app's own container on your Mac. Deleting the app removes them; nothing is kept anywhere else.
LimitWatch is a developer tool. It is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone.
If this policy changes, the updated version will appear on this page with a new date.
Questions about this policy: serg.mosk.dev@gmail.com.