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Privacy & data
QuotaLens is local-first. The short version: your usage data and tokens stay on your Mac, and the only thing that ever touches the network is a minimal Claude probe.
What leaves your Mac
Exactly one thing: a minimal Claude request (max_tokens: 1), sent at most once every five minutes per account, solely to read the rate-limit headers. It carries your account’s own setup-token to Anthropic and nothing else. Codex makes no network call whatsoever.
What stays on your Mac
- Tokens. Pasted Claude setup-tokens are stored locally in UserDefaults. They are never uploaded anywhere.
- Usage history. Token, cost, and cache history is read from your existing local Claude and Codex logs — QuotaLens does not ship it off the machine.
- Settings. Every preference (refresh interval, window mode, accounts) is persisted locally.
No analytics, no accounts
There is no telemetry, no crash reporting, no QuotaLens account, and no third-party SDK phoning home. The app is open source under the MIT license, so you can read exactly what it does — and audit the one network call yourself.
Token hygiene
A pasted token can’t auto-renew, so it eventually expires. When that happens the card turns red and you get a notification to re-paste — see Troubleshooting. To revoke access entirely, delete the account in Settings and rotate the token from claude setup-token.