Sanduhr für Claude

Pace yourself on claude.ai.

A native desktop widget for Windows 11 and macOS that turns your Claude subscription usage into something you can actually pace yourself by — burn rate, pace ghost, horizon sparklines, a deep-work hourglass timer, a cooldown snake game, and five hand-tuned glass themes on both platforms.

Independent third-party tool. Not affiliated with Anthropic. Requires an active Claude Pro, Team, or Enterprise subscription.

Pick your platform

Ships for Windows 11 and macOS. A legacy Python script covers everything else.

Windows v2.0.4 · native

Win11 (Mica glass) · Win10 solid-color fallback · PySide6 / Qt 6 · PyInstaller one-folder + Inno Setup installer.

Download .exe Build from source

macOS native SwiftUI

NSVisualEffectView vibrancy · Keychain-backed credentials · Developer ID signed + notarized · Sparkle auto-updates · drag-install DMG.

Latest .dmg Source

Cross-platform v1 · python

Original Python / tkinter version. Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Run python sanduhr.py.

sanduhr.py Install guide

Not just a mirror of the numbers.

Claude.ai’s own usage page tells you what you’ve used. Sanduhr tells you whether that’s a problem yet — and does it natively on Windows 11 and macOS.

Burn rate projection

“You’ll hit your weekly cap in ~4h 22m at current pace.” Know before you run dry.

Pace ghost

A thin tick on every bar shows where pace says usage should be right now. Real fill sits to the left (under pace) or right (ahead) — pace by eye, no math.

Horizon sparkline

Heer/Tufte 4-band stacked horizon of your last 2 hours. Peaks accumulate into dense dark regions, lulls wash soft. Denser information than a line chart, same pixel budget.

Deep-work focus timer

Swap the tier cards for a digitised 31×31 pixel hourglass that drains in real time. Inline minute picker, zero external dependencies.

Cooldown snake game

Pure-Qt/pure-SwiftUI snake for when you’ve blown through your budget and need to kill a few minutes. Persistent high score.

Breathing glass

Bars pulse subliminally toward each theme’s accent color. The widget feels alive at rest; the effect is deliberately below the threshold of flicker.

Edge-drag resize

Hover any edge or corner, cursor changes, click-drag. Minimum bounds track your font metrics so text never clips. New geometry persists across launches.

User-authorable themes

Drop a JSON palette into %APPDATA%\Sanduhr\themes\ or paste one into Settings.

AI-agent theme prompt

Hand any LLM a reference image or vibe description and get back a drop-in theme file.

Native glass, both platforms

Win11 Mica via DWM on Windows (solid-color fallback on Win10); NSVisualEffectView vibrancy on macOS. No Electron, no webview.

OS-native credential storage

Session key lives in Windows Credential Manager (service com.626labs.sanduhr) or macOS Keychain — same service name on both, cleared on uninstall, never plaintext.

Auto-updates on Mac

Mac build ships Developer ID signed + notarized with Sparkle auto-update. No manual re-downloads. Windows Store release is in review.

No telemetry, ever

No analytics, no crash reporting, no ads, no SDK-phones-home. One outbound destination: claude.ai, using your own cookie.

Drag anywhere

Drag the widget from any point, not just the title bar. Double-click title to compact. Right-click for menu.

Five hand-tuned themes — plus anything you make.

Each theme has its own glass-stacking recipe: Obsidian is densest, Mint is airiest, Matrix opts out of Mica for a pure phosphor-on-black terminal look with Cascadia Code numerics.

Obsidianpurple / restrained

Auroracyan / ice-glass

Emberorange / cozy

Mintteal / airy

Matrixphosphor / terminal

Author your own — in two clicks.

Settings → Themes lets you paste any theme JSON and hit Save & Apply. Your new theme appears instantly in the theme strip, no restart.

Don’t have a palette yet? Click Copy agent prompt, paste it into Claude or any chat agent with a reference image or vibe description, and drop the returned JSON back in the box.

Or drop the file directly into %APPDATA%\Sanduhr\themes\ — the Open themes folder button takes you there.

Sanduhr Settings dialog — Themes tab with paste box, filename field, Save & Apply / Copy agent prompt / Open themes folder buttons, and a list of installed user themes

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