gglucass/headroom-desktop
Menu Bar App on MacOS and Windows that cuts Claude Code and Codex token costs by ~50%
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Where it stands
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4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 5 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #42 in the weekly ranking the week of Jun 28, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Cuts Claude Code and OpenAI Codex token costs by about 50% using a local-first optimization pipeline in a macOS and Windows menu bar app.
- Reduces AI token usage without altering coding workflows by reversibly compressing prompt outputs and boilerplate, preserving original content on demand.
- Use for developers seeking to lower costs when interacting with Claude Code or Codex APIs on macOS or Windows desktops.
- Use for teams wanting detailed token usage analytics and savings dashboards integrated into a lightweight local tray application.
- Use for users requiring a zero-pollution install that isolates dependencies and safely manages client config changes with rollback support.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
Headroom is a macOS menu bar app that cuts Claude Code and OpenAI Codex token costs by ~50% — without changing how you code. It runs a local-first optimization pipeline that reversibly compresses the tool output, logs, and boilerplate that bloat every prompt, so the AI plan you already pay for stretches about 2x further. Nothing the model needs is lost — it can pull the original content back on demand.
Pricing: Headroom has a free tier and paid plans — see pricing. The desktop shell in this repo is MIT-licensed; account features and paid plans are opt-in.
Stable: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on Apple Silicon (M1 or later)
Preview: Linux x86_64 builds are experimental and currently support the core proxy flow only.
Headroom is signed and notarized, so macOS will open it without Gatekeeper warnings.
Linux preview artifacts are published on the same release page. Today they are best treated as a preview for the core Headroom proxy, Claude Code routing, and RTK flow.
Headroom Learnis not supported yet on Linux preview builds.Note: Headroom supports Claude Code and Codex (CLI and desktop app). Support for additional clients is planned.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
68+20
Open issues
4+0
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| gglucass/headroom-desktop | 624 | — | 35 | today |
| Category median | 98.1K | +5.2K | 45 | — |
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