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Claude Status: A macOS Menu Bar App for Tracking Multiple Claude Code Sessions

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Anyone running multiple Claude Code sessions knows the problem: you kick off a task in one terminal, switch to another, and forget the first one is sitting idle waiting for your approval to proceed. Minutes wasted, context lost.

Claude Status is a free, native macOS app that solves this with a menu bar indicator and desktop widgets tracking all open Claude Code sessions - whether they are running in Terminal, tmux, or an IDE. You can see at a glance which sessions are active, which are waiting on you, and which have finished.

It is a simple utility, not a full dashboard. The value is purely in awareness: knowing when an agent needs your input without constantly cycling through terminal tabs. For developers who routinely run two or three Claude Code sessions in parallel, that small quality-of-life improvement adds up across a full workday.

The app is open source and available on GitHub.