menu bar · next to the clock
The 5 h session and the week, each with what it has left. Next to the clock. Nothing to open, and no made-up numbers: only yours.
No cardMac, Windows and Ubuntu5 devices
90·14m / 20·2d
41·2h / 82·3d
34·4h
Claude59% leftweek: 18% leftHeadroomChatGPT10% leftweek: 80% leftHeadroomGrok66% leftlocal copyHeadroom
Cursorno session on this machineHeadroom
The tools you already use.One view.
Claude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Grok
Copilot
DeepSeek
Kimi
Qwen
GLM
Illustrative example
What you really lose
You’re mid-line and the next message doesn’t go through. The week was at 20%, but the one that counted was the 5 h session. Nobody told you.
One whole task fits. You decide whether it’s this one.
Whatever you start now won’t finish. Save and close.
Without the app it’s your first warning. With it, it’s the third, and you already know when it frees up.
Another alert 5 minutes before it frees up. Not half an hour later.
How it works
01 · THE PANEL
One click on the bar and you see each provider’s 5 h session and its week, with the reset time. Having week left doesn’t mean having session left.
02 · THE SESSIONS
Pick a day and see how many sessions there were, which are still open and how much each one ate. The data is already on your disk.
03 · THE ALERT
Alerts at 75%, at 90%, at the cap and 5 minutes before it frees up. Based on each plan’s real reading, not an estimate.
What your plans have left, in one place.PANEL DEMO
Four skins
Four layouts for the panel: they change the arrangement, not just the colour. Pick yours in Settings, whenever you like.
The names are the ones in Settings.
Try it
Move the control and watch what changes as you have less left: the colour and the alert you would get.
This is a demo of the 5 h session. The windows and data available depend on each provider and on your plan.
Plenty of room. Carry on with what matters.
Headroom, if you have it
Headroom is a separate tool. If you have it installed, almost empty turns it on per provider: a local proxy that compresses the context of the official CLIs. The footer of each card shows what that AI saved.
Privacy
It only checks usage. Login asks for a name and an email: nothing from Drive or from conversations. Transcripts stay on your disk.
It uses the sessions you already have on the machine. It doesn’t open a new one or write to their files. API keys are optional.
Keychain on Mac, Credential Manager on Windows, Secret Service on Ubuntu. Never in a text file.
Pricing
One app, no Pro plan to distract you. The only thing that changes is whether you pay monthly or yearly.
About $6.60 a month. The option almost everyone picks.
Downloads are paused for nowNo card to start. If it ends unpaid, the app closes.
Billing will happen inside the app and isn’t active yet: there’s no card form here.
download · Mac, Windows and Ubuntu
Downloads are paused for now. If you already have almost empty installed, it keeps working and updating.
Apple Silicon and Intel. Widget. Signed and notarized by Apple: download, drag to Applications and double-click.
Open the .dmg, drag the app into Applications and open it. If macOS asks for your Mac's password or to confirm it came from the Internet, that's normal.
Downloads are paused for nowSystem tray. Credentials in Credential Manager, not in a text file. x64, unsigned .msi installer: Windows may ask you to confirm during install.
Windows will show “Windows protected your PC” because the installer isn't signed yet: click “More info”, then “Run anyway”.
Downloads are paused for nowTray. Secret Service if it's there; if not, it says so: it doesn't fake a keychain. Same panel as Mac: usage, sessions and the four skins.
Double-click the .deb or, in a terminal, sudo apt install ./almost-empty-*-ubuntu.deb. It may ask for your administrator password.
questions
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[email protected]Downloads are paused for now. If you already have almost empty installed, it keeps working and updating.
No. 7-day trial with everything. Then $18 a month or $79 a year, 5 devices. When it expires unpaid, it locks. There is no free single-device plan.
Yes. $18 USD a month, or $79 USD a year (~$6.60/mo). Same app.
No. That's offline grace: someone with a valid license who loses connectivity keeps going for 7 more days. It lasts as long as the trial, but it's a different clock: the trial runs from sign-up; the grace, on an already active license.
At the 5 h and at the week, at the same time. 4% of the week gives no warning if the session is at 67%. almost empty draws both.
Because it cuts you off at the 5 h. It alerts you at 75, at 90, at the cap, and 5 minutes before it resets.
Not for the plan. It reads the sessions you already have. Keys are a different bill (real spend for the month) and they go in the keychain, not on disk.
It reads usage. The account sign-in asks for email and name. Nothing from Drive, no conversations.
No. It uses what they already left on your machine. It doesn't open a new session or write to their files.
Each device reads the AI usage signed in on that machine: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the rest aren't copied. Claude's work log (title, project, tokens for the day) is visible on the other devices on the same license. Transcripts stay on disk. The only other things shared are the license and its clock.
If it says “Claude (Anthropic) limited”: that is a 429 from Anthropic, the app waits and keeps the last reading. If it says there's no reading yet and that almost empty is waiting a moment: that's the internal brake (three minutes) so it doesn't ask too often; it's not Anthropic. The app's request weighs bytes, it doesn't spend your quota.
The list stays; the secret lives in the Keychain and sometimes doesn't survive a change of binary. Delete the key and paste it again. Same if you just updated and Claude Code asks for Touch ID again.