the free meter reads your own Claude Code transcripts, on your own Mac, and prices every chat. no account, and it stays free forever, whether or not you ever buy the full app. the meter reads files on your Mac and has no server to send them to.
peddra sits in your Mac's menu bar. click the icon and a drawer drops down. two things in it are the free meter, forever: your limits, read from Anthropic's own reporting where available, and every chat marked with a light, so you can see at a glance which ones are getting expensive. two more things belong to the full app, and fill in only as it earns them: the ready prompt for your next chat, and the ledger, which shows what resuming cold would have cost against what it cost instead: dollars on api billing, your window back on a subscription.
the free meter is free, forever, whether or not you ever buy the full app. hold the instrument yourself, with sample data, no download needed.