Claudoscope

Claudoscope

  A native macOS menu bar app for exploring, analyzing, and managing your Claude Code and Cowork sessions.

  🎉 Claudoscope 1.4 is here

  The session viewer release: a Trace tab with Replay plays a session back on a time axis, a minimap shows its shape, bookmarks pin the turns worth keeping, and Resume drops you back into it in your terminal.
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Claudoscope reads your local Claude Code session files (~/.claude/projects/) and Claude Cowork sessions from the Claude desktop app, then surfaces them through a compact menu bar widget and a full-featured dashboard window. It provides real-time session tracking, cost estimation with spend alerts, analytics, per-file diffs of everything Claude changed, plan browsing, timeline history, configuration health checks, a 1-click security hardening baseline that locks down your Claude Code environment, and secret scanning that detects leaked credentials in your session history with real-time alerts, all without sending any data off your machine.

Why Claudoscope

The first version displayed one number: roughly what I had spent in Claude Code that day. Then I wanted to know which session the number came from, then which project, then whether the expensive one was expensive because it did a lot or because it got stuck in a loop and burned cache on the same context forty times. Every feature since has been a version of the same question: what is Claude Code actually doing when I am not watching it?

The catch is that most of the answers are time-sensitive. A session going sideways is worth knowing about while it is going sideways. A leaked credential in a transcript matters most in the minutes after it lands. Claude sitting on a permission prompt while you read something in…