Am I using too much this week?
A remaining percentage tells only part of the story. Compare it with the time until reset to understand your current pace.
A Mac app for OpenAI Codex
Your Codex usage.A clearer view.
Compare time left with allowance remaining. Review tasks and recorded model settings from the periods with the largest drops.
macOS 13 or later
Apple Silicon
日本語 / English
01 / EXPERIENCE
Sound familiar?
Sometimes you need to pace yourself. Sometimes you have room to explore. See your remaining allowance alongside the time and work behind it.
What was running when it dropped?
Your allowance fell faster than expected. You want to revisit the tasks, model settings, and overlapping work from that time.
Is there still room before reset?
The reset is close and you still have allowance left. It could be a chance to try something new or go deeper on your work.
See the room ahead and the work behind you.
QuotaEcho brings the information for your next decision into your Mac menu bar.
02 / WHAT YOU CAN SEE
From your allowance back to your work.
01 — YOUR PACESee the app
Time and allowance together reveal your headroom.
For example, with 26.5% of your weekly allowance and 14.3% of the time remaining, Gap is minus 12.2 percentage points. You have headroom relative to an evenly spread usage pace.
An example of usage paceScroll to explore ↓
IN THE APP · ANOTHER EXAMPLEThat little insight.
That little insight.
Right in your menu bar.
Time and allowance, on one shared scale. Their difference shows whether usage is ahead of an even pace or you have headroom.
- Hours and minutes until the reset time recorded by Codex
- Positive Gap: usage ahead. Negative Gap: headroom
- Automatic updates from the latest Codex records
02 — WORK IN CONTEXTSee the app
From a drop in allowance to the tasks and models active during that period.
Choose a period with a large drop to see the tasks active at the time and their recorded model and reasoning settings. These are clues to revisit your work, not per-task consumption figures.
An example of work in contextScroll to explore ↓
IN THE APP · ANOTHER EXAMPLEFrom a period
From a period
back to your work.
See up to five periods with the largest usage changes over the last 7 days (168 hours). Pick one to review its tasks and model settings, then open a task in Codex.
- Usage is compared at roughly hourly checks. Displayed periods use the actual timestamps recorded by Codex; older records without timestamps use QuotaEcho check times
- If the recorded interval differs from about an hour, its duration is shown too
- History stays after reset. Each period must fall entirely within the last 7 days; older periods leave the list as time passes
- Usage changes calculated separately within each weekly window
- Processing counts, duration, concurrency, and tool use. A recent median when the selected record interval is roughly an hour and at least three other periods are comparable
- Automatic checks while the display is off or locked; missed periods reconstructed where the remaining usage records allow
Codex, Work and other supported services share the allowance. QuotaEcho displays usage recorded by Codex on your Mac, alongside tasks and processing activity available on that same Mac. Use them to review changes alongside the work happening at the time. They do not establish per-task consumption or the cause of a change.
02.1 / MENU BAR
A quick check.
A quick check.
Right in your menu bar.
Your current Gap appears in the menu bar when QuotaEcho is running. Click it to see your remaining allowance or explore a period in more detail.
02.2 / APPEARANCE
Light or Dark.
Light or Dark.
Make yourself at home.
Choose either appearance in Help, independently of macOS. Your choice stays with you after relaunch. You can also turn button and refresh sounds on or off.
03 / PRIVACY
Your usage stays
Your usage stays
on your Mac.
Allow read access once. QuotaEcho updates its display as Codex saves new usage records. There is no QuotaEcho account to create.
No account credentials
You do not enter an OpenAI ID, password, or API key into QuotaEcho.
Read-only access
QuotaEcho reads permitted local Codex records. It does not change Codex tasks or records.
Processed on your Mac
Weekly allowance, task names, processing times, and needed counts are processed in the app.
No developer telemetry
The app does not send the information it reads to Universion Closure Logic.
Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 7, 2026
Scope
This policy describes how Universion Closure Logic, K.K. (“we,” “us,” or “the Company”) handles information in the macOS app QuotaEcho.
Information used by the app
After you grant read-only access in macOS, QuotaEcho extracts metadata from Codex records, including the weekly allowance, available credit balances, task names, processing times and counts, and recorded model and reasoning settings. This information is processed on your Mac and is not transmitted to us by the app.
Information we do not obtain
QuotaEcho does not obtain your OpenAI account ID, password, API key, cookies, authentication tokens, or auth.json. It does not extract, store, display, or transmit prompts, response bodies, reasoning, code, file paths, commands, or command output.
Information stored on your Mac
QuotaEcho stores the current weekly allowance and the usage history needed to compare the last 7 days, language, appearance and sound preferences, read-only permission information, a local matching value used to renew that permission safely for the same records folder, and a randomly generated local identifier inside the app sandbox. Task names, model settings and processing summaries are used in memory only while displayed and are not retained in the usage history.
In version 1.1 and later, after the weekly allowance is exhausted, the app stores the first confirmed credit balance and its timestamp, the latest balance and timestamp, and the associated weekly allowance window to display the net balance change.
Retention and deletion
History needed to review the last 7 days is kept after the weekly allowance resets. Records from past weekly windows that are no longer part of that comparison are pruned at startup and while the app runs. The last confirmed allowance record is kept until a valid new weekly allowance is obtained. You can remove QuotaEcho’s saved history, settings and read permission through the uninstall instructions in Help. Codex tasks and records are kept.
The starting credit balance is retained across app restarts. When a new weekly window with remaining allowance is confirmed, the previous credit record is cleared. If the new window is also exhausted, it is replaced with a record for that window. Stored data is retained while updated records are unavailable. Credit tracking can be deleted with other app data through the uninstall guidance in Help.
Support communications
If you contact support by email, we receive your email address and message content and use them to respond and resolve the issue. Support communications may be processed by our email service provider.
Website
The code for this website does not use advertising or behavioral-tracking cookies or analytics tools. Our hosting provider may temporarily process server logs such as IP address, browser information, and access time for security and reliable operation.
Relationship with third parties
QuotaEcho is provided independently from OpenAI. It does not imply affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement, provision, or warranty by OpenAI. OpenAI’s own service information and terms govern actual availability, allowance, and account conditions.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the app, law, or method of delivery changes. Material changes will be described on this page.
Contact
Universion Closure Logic, K.K.
support.quotaecho@universion-closure-logic.com
04 / COMPANY
Tools for
Tools for
everyday decisions.
QuotaEcho is designed and developed by Universion Closure Logic, K.K. We turn Codex usage records into a clear view, so people can choose a pace that works for them.
- Company
- Universion Closure Logic, K.K.
- Product
- QuotaEcho
- Description
- A macOS companion for reviewing your Codex usage pace
- Website
- universion-closure-logic.com
05 / SUPPORT
Need a hand?
If QuotaEcho asks for read access, follow the on-screen instructions. Once access is allowed, usage updates as Codex saves new records while you work. You can also click Refresh to check now.
If the issue remains, contact QuotaEcho Support.
support.quotaecho@universion-closure-logic.comInformation that helps us review the issue
- Your QuotaEcho version
- Your macOS version
- The screen and time when the issue occurred
- The message or error shown on screen
Do not send passwords, API keys, auth.json, Codex data folders or session files, prompts, or response contents.