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What's new in AI Usage Ball
Fixed
- Codex now shows
READY TO GO until the current five-hour allowance is actually used, instead of looping at an almost-five-hour countdown before the window starts.
Added
- Codex now shows five-hour and weekly remaining usage as dual liquid rings, with separate reset countdowns and the number of reset credits left below the orb.
Fixed
- Codex usage polling now reads the weekly allowance from the ChatGPT usage endpoint and clears it correctly after its weekly reset.
Fixed
- The liquid in desktop widgets would stop animating after a while and clicking or hovering wouldn't bring it back. The animation was driven frame-by-frame from JavaScript, which macOS throttles for windows sitting behind everything else — so the countdown kept ticking while the liquid sat frozen. It now plays natively, which nothing can stall, and uses a fraction of the CPU.
- A widget whose liquid video dropped out now recovers on its own instead of staying frozen for good.
Fixed
- Desktop widgets could overlap by a sliver, letting the middle one silently steal clicks meant for its neighbors. They're now spaced far enough apart that this can't happen.
Added
- Team View: see 2-3 teammates' remaining usage alongside your own during a pairing session. Opt-in and local-network only — turn on sharing in Settings, then pin teammates automatically discovered on your WiFi, or add one by local IP. Nothing leaves your Mac except a name and three percentages, and only when you've turned it on. Built for uri_yap on Product Hunt, who asked for exactly this.
- The app now re-checks for updates every 3 days while running, not just at launch — a ready-to-install update shows a small badge right on your desktop widgets, since most people don't reopen the main window often.
Fixed
- Popped-out desktop widgets: the liquid still didn't react to hovering, only to clicking. Widgets now watch the cursor natively and start the flow after it rests over the orb for a couple of seconds.
Fixed
- Popped-out desktop widgets: hovering or clicking the liquid could silently do nothing, since macOS doesn't pass mouse input through to an inactive window by default. Widgets now accept that input directly.
Added
- The Claude orb now shows a clickable "SIGN IN" prompt when it can't read your usage because you're signed out of claude.ai — click it to open claude.ai and log back in, instead of the orb sitting empty.
Added
- Hidden easter egg: drag any crystal ball to discover a physics-based mini game — a color-matching arena, a falling-ball catch level, and a hell-difficulty lane-racing finale.
- Auto-update: the app checks for and installs updates on its own (toggle in Settings, on by default).
- Terms and Privacy pages.
Changed
- Self-contained installer — no longer depends on a separately-installed Python environment.
- Much faster startup: cold launch ~26s → ~5s, warm relaunch ~13s → ~3s.
- Smoother opening animation — usage rings fill in from empty instead of popping in with placeholder values.
- Main window background is translucent, matching the desktop-widget look.
Fixed
- Antigravity usage sometimes took ~20 seconds to show real data after launch.
- Claude usage occasionally took over a minute to appear, or failed to load at all.
- Window size stayed stretched after playing the hidden game — now resets on exit.
- Initial public release: live usage tracking for Claude, Codex, and Antigravity, with desktop widgets and a free 30-day trial.