The Mac developer dashboard in your menu bar.

FavTray is a native Mac developer dashboard that lives in the menu bar. Its free developer cockpit shows what needs you right now, such as a Claude Code agent waiting for approval, an AI limit about to run out, red CI or a dev server that stopped answering, with the fix one click away. A full Mac window gives every tool its own screen, including AI Usage, GitHub, Ports, System, Projects, Notes, Cloud Costs and Eye Rest. FavTray needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, has no account, and is signed.

FavTray is free, with no account. The developer cockpit, AI Usage with history, Eye Rest, System, Menu Bar, the notch glance and agent sounds are free with no limit. Other tools are free up to a daily limit: 10 port kills, 10 AI Writer rewrites, 10 Flow AI asks, 10 screenshots, 20 snaps to thirds, 3 hours of Keep Alive, 4 full-screen meeting alerts, 10 Clipboard pastes into apps, and 10 Hydrate and 10 Posture logs a day. Free also includes up to 2 notes, 2 project boards, 3 active reminders, 2 GitHub repos and 1 cloud account, and Clipboard with 24 hours of history and 5 pins. Pro is a one-time $4.99 Lifetime license for one Mac, with no subscription: it removes every limit and adds Space, Claude Code approvals, body breaks, the FavShelf tools and Max. Every install gets Pro free for 7 days, with no limits and no card. Prices are in USD.

Yes. AI Usage shows limits, pace and time to limit for 30 providers, including Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, Windsurf and OpenRouter, plus API accounts for OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot and xAI. Cost from local logs covers Claude and Codex. Alerts fire at 80%, 95% and when you hit a limit. AI Usage is free, history included.

Turn on Claude in FavTray's AI Usage. It reads the Claude login already on your Mac, read-only, and shows your 5-hour and weekly limits with pace and the time you'll reach them. Cost per model and per day comes from Claude Code's local logs. For an Anthropic API account, you can add an admin API key, which FavTray keeps in its own Keychain item. Step by step: how to track Claude API costs.

Yes, with Pro. When Claude Code asks for permission, Approve and Deny appear in the cockpit's Needs-you rail and on the notch island. FavTray uses Claude Code's PermissionRequest hook over a local unix socket, and a request you don't answer goes back to Claude Code's own terminal prompt after 55 seconds. The Agents page also watches Claude Code and Codex sessions. Gemini and Cursor agents aren't monitored.

In Terminal, lsof -i :3000 shows the process ID, and kill -9 followed by that ID stops it. In FavTray, open Ports: every listening port shows the app behind it, and one click kills every process on that port, including a reloader and its workers. Ports is free for 10 kills a day, and Pro is unlimited. The guide to killing a port on Mac covers the Terminal method in detail.

Every 20 minutes of screen time, look at something about 20 feet (6 metres) away for 20 seconds. FavTray's Eye Rest times these breaks, shows a notice before each one even over fullscreen apps, and is free. Read the complete guide to the 20-20-20 rule.

Body breaks add short guided desk exercises for your neck, shoulders, wrists and back to some of your eye breaks. They show in a floating panel, and you choose how often they come. Body breaks are part of Pro; Eye Rest itself is free.

FavTray's Keep Alive keeps your Mac and your chat status awake by simulating activity, with movement patterns and office hours. You turn it on from the menu bar, and it doesn't touch your energy or lock screen settings. Keep Alive runs up to 3 hours a day on Free, and Pro is unlimited. If you only need to stop sleep, macOS has the free caffeinate command. See every way to keep a Mac awake and Mac keep-awake apps compared.

No FavTray server stores your data, and there is no account. Projects, Notes, reminder logs and usage history are files on your Mac. FavTray talks directly to services you already use: your AI providers (to read usage limits), GitHub, provider status pages, Google Cloud and AWS if you set up Cloud Costs, and weather for the notch. It also checks your license and for updates, and licensed installs download Max's animation files once. Flow AI sends only the data areas you tick, to your own AI provider or a local model.

For many developers, FavTray covers the daily job of several single-purpose apps: an AI limits tracker such as CodexBar, a GitHub menu bar app such as Gitify, a system monitor such as Stats or iStat Menus, a port killer, a window snapper such as Rectangle, a keep-awake app such as Amphetamine, and a break timer such as Time Out. The specialists go deeper. CodexBar tracks more providers, Gitify supports GitLab and Bitbucket, and iStat Menus reads sensors and controls fans. FavTray's case is one app, one set of permissions and one $4.99 license. See why one app instead of many and every comparison.