Small Mac apps,
easy to peel.
Mikan Software makes little Mac utilities that each do one job well — sweet, simple, and quick to get into.
No accounts. No analytics. No seeds.
Apps
Utilities for macOS, and one game.
MikanMessage
Apple silicon, macOS 14 Sonoma and later
A Display Message action for Apple Shortcuts. Show a floating, non‑blocking status message — “Default browser set to Chrome” — that fades in, holds, and fades out, without Notification Center getting involved.
Claude Usage
Apple silicon, macOS 14 Sonoma and later
Your Claude session and weekly limits as two rings in the menu bar, with a pace tick that turns red when you're headed for the limit before it resets. Plus usage by model, 90 days of history, and an optional Claude Code statusline.
GPT Usage
Apple silicon, macOS 14 Sonoma and later
Your ChatGPT plan's shared Codex allowance, 5‑hour and weekly, as two rings in the menu bar, counted across every device you use. Pace ticks, reset alerts, and 30 days of account activity by model.
Mikan Pong
Apple silicon, macOS 13 Ventura and later
Freshly squeezed Pong, with a mikan for a ball. Play the Orchard Bot at three difficulty levels, or two players on one keyboard. First to seven wins.
Privacy
Small apps that mind their own business.
Simple
Each app does one thing. There's no Mikan account to create, no onboarding, no dashboard. You install it, it does its job (most of them from the menu bar), and that's the whole experience.
Native
Written in Swift for the Mac, launched when you need it and then forgotten. Nothing is a web page in a window, and nothing hangs around eating your battery.
Private
No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no ad networks, no third‑party SDKs of any kind. There is no Mikan server that knows you exist.
What these apps send over the network
MikanMessage and Mikan Pong: nothing. Neither makes a network connection at all.
Claude Usage talks to exactly two places: claude.ai, with your own sign‑in, to read the usage numbers claude.ai's own usage page shows, and Claude's status page, to show outages. Nothing goes to Mikan Software, and nothing else leaves your Mac.
GPT Usage reaches OpenAI only, with the Codex sign‑in you already have: through Codex itself, for your limits, and at chatgpt.com, for your account's activity history. Again, nothing goes to Mikan Software.
Point Little Snitch at any of them and see for yourself. If an app ever needs to send anything new, this section and the privacy policy will say exactly what before that version ships.
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