Privacy

Headroom runs on your Mac and talks only to Anthropic. We never receive your sign-in, your usage or your email address.

What the app reads on your Mac

• The sign-in that Claude Code saved in your macOS keychain, for each Claude Code folder in your home folder (~/.claude and any ~/.claude-…). Headroom reads it through the same macOS tool Claude Code used to save it.
• The account email, organization name and plan name in each folder's .claude.json file, to label the accounts in the panel.

What the app sends

• To Anthropic (api.anthropic.com): a request for the account's usage limits and subscription details, signed with that account's own sign-in. These requests go directly from your Mac to Anthropic.
• To this site: once a day, a request for version.json, to see if a newer Headroom exists. Like any web request it shows our server your IP address. It carries nothing about you or your accounts. Headroom tells you when a newer version exists. It never installs one by itself.
• Nothing else. The app has no analytics, no crash reporting and no account.

What the app keeps

• The last usage numbers for each account, in ~/Library/Application Support/Headroom/snapshots.json, so the panel has something to show before the next check. The file holds percentages, reset times and plan names. It holds no sign-in.
• Your settings: which accounts you stopped tracking.

Signing in and renewing a sign-in

Headroom does not sign in for you and does not write to the keychain. When you add an account from the panel, Headroom starts Claude Code's own sign-in for a new folder, and you finish it on Claude's sign-in page in your browser. Your password goes only to that page. When an account's sign-in has gone stale, Headroom runs Claude Code's own claude auth status command for that folder, and Claude Code renews its sign-in the way it does when you open it.

This website

This site uses Google Analytics to count visits and downloads. The app does not.

Anthropic

Headroom is an independent app from Everyday Mac Tools. It is not made, endorsed or supported by Anthropic. Claude and Claude Code are Anthropic's products, and your use of them is covered by Anthropic's own terms and privacy policy.

Contact

Questions: hey@everydaymactools.com.

Last updated 11 November 2026.