If you already run ccusage, you don't need a tour of the logs. You want the number without opening a terminal, and you want to know the Mac app didn't invent a second way to add up tokens.
Minto counts tokens and cost for Claude Code and Codex the way ccusage does. We test those totals against ccusage's own results. Prices come from LiteLLM's public list, which copies the providers' own rates, where a cache read costs a fraction of a fresh prompt. We test against ccusage's results, so a mismatch is something we look at before we trust our total. It is not a new definition of a token. We do not promise the two will match your card. Both of them are estimates. The plan's billing is the final word. A flat subscription does not itemize Tuesday.
Cursor is outside that test. ccusage is not where Cursor's requests live, and neither is the Claude Code log. Cursor usage comes from your Cursor account after you sign in. Cursor still has no project folder on a request, so it has no Projects page. Don't expect a ccusage-style repo breakdown for it. You won't get one from us either.
What the terminal doesn't put in the menu bar
The menu bar item is the reason this is an app and not a wrapper around the CLI. Three settings: the icon, today's cost, or today's cost with a ring for the 5-hour limit. Verified Ultra accounts have no 5-hour limit, and for those accounts Minto shows the weekly limit and the weekly Fable limit, the same as Claude's own usage page. The ring is that allowance, not the dollar estimate. Those are different facts. One stops you. The other explains the log.
Today's cost is the same list-price estimate as the panel. The panel draws what ccusage prints as tables. Spent today against the last day you used the tool. The running total against yesterday at this hour, with a forecast to midnight if the rest of the day continues at the same pace. Week is the last seven days against the seven before. Breakdown splits the week or the month by model, and for Claude and Codex by project folder. Open a folder and the chats are there.
The limit clock is the other half, and it is not something we compute from LiteLLM. Claude's 5-hour and weekly limits (verified Ultra accounts have no 5-hour limit, and Minto then shows the weekly limit and the weekly Fable limit, the same as Claude's own usage page) and the usage windows Codex reports: percent used, when each resets, and a mark for how far through the window the clock is. Cursor shows the usage Cursor reports for your account. Signing in to Claude only reads the usage percentages. The walkthrough of the two Claude clocks is when the 5-hour limit resets. The model and folder split is what Claude Code costs.
The cover on this page is that panel. It is the demo, on purpose. Try Demo Data is in the ⋯ menu, and it fills every screen with made-up usage so you can see the layout before you point Minto at a log. The model names in the picture are part of the fiction. Yours will be whatever the log says.
What we did not build
A pipe-friendly CLI. If you are feeding ccusage into something else, keep doing that. We did not try to be the thing in the script. We also didn't build an account. No tracking. The logs stay on the Mac. The network use is the price list.
Data Folders is in that same ⋯ menu, for logs that aren't where the scan looks first. Open at Login is there too. Refresh is the obvious command. None of that changes the count.
Five desktop widgets exist: Plan Limits, Today, This Month, Top Projects, and Models. Plan Limits is the countdown. Today is the estimate against the last day. Those two are the ones in the product screenshots. The other three are the same numbers as the panel, on the desktop if you want them there. Widgets don't get a smarter formula.
macOS 14 or later. English. Free on the store, no ads, no "pro" tier hiding the history. The App Store's short description still talks about Claude Code and Codex only. The app, and this site, also do Cursor. If you installed from an old memory of the blurb, the switch at the top of the panel is the current set: Claude, Codex, Cursor.
When to skip it
Skip Minto if you want a single ledger that includes your card statement. We can't see the invoice. Skip it if the terminal is where you already look, and you don't care about the session reset until Claude Code stops. ccusage is the right tool for that person. We ship a menu bar because we got tired of running it to answer "am I close," and because the folder split was the question the total never answered.
The rest of the screens are on the Minto page. The install is the Mac App Store.