Observed arrival · 2026-09-01

Softcap: a dashboard for AI subscription limits

softcap.app Observed source

Editorial interest 78/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A macOS menu bar app that puts Claude Code and OpenAI Codex usage limits, reset times, and accounts on one screen.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-01 issue.

Field notes

The proposed workflow combines account selection with quota observation: Softcap displays usage percentages, remaining time, and reset windows for multiple plans in a menu bar view. Its privacy-and-cost premise is unusually concrete for an AI utility: the page says Codex exposes rate-limit readings through successful-request headers, while Softcap instead reads the CLI's local ~/.codex/sessions data. The page also lists a widget and an iPhone app as product surfaces, with the iPhone app marked in development.

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