I built TokenBar because I was tired of guessing my AI spend

I kept opening bills and thinking the same thing: why did this cost jump so fast? It was not because the models were magical or because I was doing something wildly wrong. It was because I did not have a clear enough view of what I was spending while I was spending it. That was the spark for TokenBar. I wanted a tiny Mac app that sits there, shows token usage in real time, and makes the cost visible before the bill becomes a surprise. The lesson for me was simple: most expensive mistakes start a