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Wake 1.0: see where your tokens went

The Usage window grouping a week of tool calls by intent, with the most expensive shell commands listed below

Wake is out! It is a free macOS app for people who use Claude Code. It reads the transcripts Claude Code already keeps on your Mac and shows you where your tokens went.

Why I built it

I don’t think AI tools will stay this cheap forever. One day the subscriptions could go away, or the companies behind them could cut how much we can use them by a lot. If that happens, I want to already know how to get the same work done with fewer tokens, and spend less money.

It also fits how I work. I have always been interested in web speed optimization, and I naturally tend to monitor things and try to improve them. My coding agent was the next thing to measure, and I couldn’t improve it without first seeing where the tokens went.

There is one more reason. I work at Xojo, and I wanted to test the new Agentic Mode on a real app. So Wake has been mostly written by Claude Code, which means the first sessions it ever showed me were the ones that built it.

Every reply pays for the whole conversation

Each time the agent replies, the whole conversation is sent again. A long session keeps paying for its first turns, over and over. One big command output early on can cost you many times its size by the end.

The Usage window groups tool calls by what the agent was doing (reading files, searching, running commands) and gives you a tip on what would send less. You can export it as a Markdown checklist and give it back to your agent to fix.

Replay any session

You can also read a session as a timeline: prompts, answers, commands with their output, file edits as diffs, and subagents shown where they ran. Each step shows its time, its tokens, and how much it added to the context. Press Cmd+F to search every session at once.

A session timeline with a shell command expanded to show its output and what it added to the context
A shell command, expanded to show its output and what it added to the context.

Private by design

Wake only reads your transcripts. It never changes them, never goes online and never collects anything. Prices can change, so you can set your own, and the cost estimates stay right.

Get it

Wake is free and open source, built with Xojo, and signed and notarized for macOS. Download Wake, or see what’s in 1.0.

If you try it, I’d love to hear what it found in your sessions. Contact me!