Claude Code Needs you 􀙇 9:41
100% local · no account · your data stays on your Mac

Stay on top of Claude Code — and its bill.

A live overlay tells you the second Claude needs you. Guards catch runaway loops and leaked secrets before they cost you — all computed locally from your own history. No account. Nothing leaves your Mac.

macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon · Free forever — no trial, no card

Dinoradar Usage dashboard — Claude Code spend, cache savings, the $ saved ledger and activity
Live activity overlay $ Runaway-cost guard Leaked-secret radar Spend & cache savings Nothing leaves your Mac

Made for developers who live in Claude Code — catch runaway loops and leaked secrets, see where the money goes, and what the cache just saved you.

Free — forever

Know what Claude is doing — without switching windows.

A floating overlay that lives above every app: working, running a tool, done, or needs you — with elapsed time. Running several sessions? It lists every one, most urgent first.

  • One row per live session, auto-sorted — needs-you first
  • Click any row to jump straight to that terminal
  • Plus: the Usage dashboard (today & 7 days) and a chat-style session browser
  • Free forever — no trial, no account
The guards

Claude Code cost tracking and spend guards, computed locally.

Dinoradar watches every session for the two ways Claude Code quietly hurts — a runaway loop burning tokens, or a secret slipping into context. Alerts are free; the full ledger, history and controls are Pro.

Runaway Guard

Claude sometimes gets stuck looping a tool call — burning money unattended, because the API has no per-session spending cap. Dinoradar spots it and pings you: "repeated npm test ×6 · $4.20 · check in?"

Leak Radar

Claude reads your files and shells, so API keys can end up in a session transcript. Dinoradar scans the session for exposed API keys & secrets — 100% local, only a redacted fingerprint is ever stored.

Cost & the $ saved ledger

A full Claude Code cost and token usage breakdown — by token type, model and project — plus your cache hit rate and what caching saved you, burn rate with a budget alert, and a running ledger of what the guards saved.

CLAUDE.md Coach + Memory

Spots the fixes you keep repeating and turns them into a CLAUDE.md rule in one click — plus a control panel for what Claude remembers about each project.

The overlay in every state, your spend timeline, and the guards — $ saved ledger, Leak Radar, CLAUDE.md Coach & Memory — in half a minute.

Get Dinoradar

Free forever. Pro for $29 — once.

Download, drag to Applications, done — use it free for as long as you like. Unlock the deep end with a single one-time license — no subscription.

01 Install — free, no account
Download for macOS — Free

Apple Silicon · macOS 12+ · signed & notarized by Apple

1 Download the .dmg 2 Drag Dinoradar to Applications 3 Open it — done
02 Pick your plan
Free
$0forever

No trial, no account, no card

  • Live activity overlay — multi-session
  • Runaway & Leak Radar alerts — real-time
  • Usage: today & last 7 days
  • Projects & chat-style session browser
  • History, Cost, the $ saved ledger & Insights
Download free

Never expires — nothing is ever locked.

Pro
$29one-time

$49  launch price · no subscription

  • The $ saved ledger + full history (30d & all-time)
  • Cost analytics, cache savings & burn alerts
  • Guard history, tuning & Leak Radar management
  • CLAUDE.md Coach, Memory & Deep Insights
  • Recap & 9 share-card designs
Buy Pro — $29

One license · 3 Macs · all 1.x updates included. Already bought? Paste your key in Settings → License.

Everything stays on your Mac. Your prompts, code and history never leave your machine — Dinoradar reads the local files Claude Code already writes. The only network call is license activation.

Uninstall anytime (removes everything): curl -fsSL https://dinoradar.com/uninstall.sh | bash

Install

Download & open

Grab the .dmg above and drag Dinoradar to Applications — signed & notarized by Apple, ready in seconds.

Connect

Enable hooks

Click Enable realtime hooks on the welcome screen. Dinoradar adds small hooks to settings.json — backed up first, removable anytime.

Go

Start coding

Open Claude Code as usual. The overlay lights up live — working, running a tool, done, needs-you.

Good to know

Questions, answered.

Is there a usage dashboard for Claude Code?

Claude Code has no built-in dashboard — the /usage command shows the current session in the terminal, and that is it. Dinoradar is a macOS menu-bar app that reads the same local session transcripts and shows usage, cost and history in a visual dashboard, with a live overlay for sessions in progress.

Does my data or secrets leave my Mac?

No. Everything is computed locally from the files Claude Code already writes — no account, no cloud, so your usage, costs and prompts never leave your Mac. Leak Radar's secret scanning is local too: only a redacted fingerprint (e.g. AKIA…7Q4B) is ever stored, never the real value. We collect only anonymous, aggregate analytics (which screens get used), never your data.

Do I need an account or API key?

No. Install and it just works — Dinoradar reads the Claude Code data already on your Mac, with nothing to configure and no keys to paste. It works with anything that writes to ~/.claude — CLI, desktop app and IDE extensions — on any Claude subscription or API billing.

How much is Pro, and what if I stop paying?

Pro is a one-time purchase — no subscription — for up to 3 Macs, with all 1.x updates included. There's nothing to cancel: it's yours to keep, and the Free tier never expires either. Retiring a Mac? Sign out in the app to free a slot.

Dinoradar

Claude Code already knows how you work.
Now you do too.

Local, private, and free forever — download and go.

Download Dinoradar — free