AI Usage Meter collects no personal data, sends none of your data to the developer, and contains no analytics or third-party advertising. It never reads or stores your passwords or sign-in tokens; every usage lookup is handed to the official tool that is already signed in on your computer.
This policy applies to the following app:
9PLDWKRFDGDCFish-Zero.AIUsageMeterAI Usage Meter is an independent third-party tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, Google, or xAI. Product names below belong to their respective owners and are used only to describe which tool's data the app reads.
Only services you turn on in Settings are read (by default, only Claude and Codex). All of this reading happens on your computer and involves no network access.
Usage records: the usage numbers come from records that your AI tools keep on your computer. The app only takes the percentage used and reset time of each limit.
Telling which tool you are using: so that it can update more often while you use a tool (see section 3), the app looks at the last-modified time and size of the conversation files kept by Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Copilot Chat in VS Code, and Grok Build CLI. It only looks at the time and size and never opens or reads what is in them.
The app sends nothing to the developer. When live numbers are needed, it asks an official tool you have already installed to look up your usage from its own service using the sign-in you already have, and then shows the result:
| Service | Through |
|---|---|
| Claude | No network access |
| Codex | Codex CLI |
| Antigravity | Antigravity CLI (only when there is no captured data, or it is out of date) |
| GitHub Copilot | GitHub's official Copilot SDK. The first time you turn it on, the SDK downloads the runtime it needs from GitHub (about 111 MB) |
| Grok | Grok Build CLI |
These lookups only fetch usage information; they open no conversation and use no model quota.
When it looks up:
At all other times, the app only re-reads the local records from section 2 now and then, and does not go online to look up usage.
These lookups are made directly between each official tool and its own service, and are covered by that service's own privacy policy. Signing in, and renewing that sign-in, is handled by the official tool itself. The app only uses usage-related data (percentage used, reset time, plan name, and the available count and expiration times of Codex reset credits). It never receives or stores your account credentials.
Update check: the version installed from the Microsoft Store regularly asks the Microsoft Store service built into Windows whether a new version is available. The check only asks about updates and sends no personal data or usage numbers; whether to update is up to you, in the Microsoft Store.
Trial and purchase: the version installed from the Microsoft Store is free to use for 14 days; after that, you need to buy the "Full version" in the app to keep seeing your usage. The first time it starts, the app checks whether a settings file from an earlier version is already on your computer; if so, you were already using it and get the full version. The trial start date and whether you bought the full version are kept in the settings file on your computer (see section 5). Until you buy, the app asks the Microsoft Store service built into Windows whether you own the full version and what it costs, for example when it starts or when you open Settings. Payment takes place in the Microsoft Store's own purchase window and is handled by Microsoft; neither the app nor the developer ever sees your payment details. The developer only receives sales statistics from Microsoft that don't include your name, email address, or payment details.
Service status: when you open the usage card (or choose "Refresh now"), the app checks the official public status pages of Claude (status.claude.com), OpenAI (status.openai.com), GitHub (githubstatus.com), and xAI (status.x.ai, with its data on data.x.ai) for incidents affecting the services you turned on, at most once every few minutes, and marks any incident on the card. This is public information: the check needs no sign-in and sends no personal data, usage numbers, or identifiers. Like any website you visit, those status pages see your IP address. You can turn this off under Advanced settings in the Settings window.
Promotional banner: the bottom of the Settings window shows a banner marked "Ad" that promotes other apps by the same developer. It is the only ad in the app, and no third-party advertising code is included. So that the promotion can change without a new app version, when you open the Settings window the app checks this website (fish-zero.com) at most once a day for updated promotional content, downloads new images and text only if there are any, and keeps them on your computer to show in turn. If nothing changed or the download fails, it shows what it already has or the content built into the app. This connection only downloads; it sends no personal data, usage numbers, or identifiers. We keep no access logs for this website ourselves; the website is served through Cloudflare, which handles connection information (such as your IP address) under its own policies. Only if you click the banner does your browser open the matching store page. The full version doesn't show the banner and doesn't download promotional content.
Other links: the "Privacy policy" and "Website" links in the Settings window open pages on this website in your browser only when you click them.
Claude Code and Antigravity CLI don't write their usage limits to a file by themselves, so the Claude and Antigravity rows in Settings each have an "Install capture" button. Only after you press it and confirm will the app:
This script doesn't use the network either.
Check…: once the Claude capture is installed, the Claude row also has a "Check…" button. Only when you press it does the app read the settings and records above; look for Claude Code and the Claude desktop app; check whether sign-in related environment variables or settings are set, only whether they are set: their values are never used, shown, or kept; and run the capture script once with sample data (without touching your data). The result is only shown on screen. It goes to the clipboard only when you press "Copy results" (with your user name masked first), and whether to send it to anyone is up to you.
If the script gets stuck: the script occasionally gets stuck in the background and never finishes (for example, when an antivirus scan hangs). So the app regularly looks at the command lines of running PowerShell programs, only to find its own stuck capture script and end it. Command lines are only compared at that moment and are never kept or sent anywhere; no other program is touched.
| Content | Location |
|---|---|
| Settings (enabled services, interface language, demo mode, pinned style and position, trial start date and whether you bought the full version) | %LOCALAPPDATA%\ai-quota-tray\config.json |
| Low-usage alert history (to avoid announcing the same limit twice) | Same folder, state.json |
| Promotional banner images and text (downloaded from this website, see section 3) | Same folder, promo |
| Claude / Antigravity status line capture (only if you install it) | That tool's own folder, see section 4 |
When installed from the Microsoft Store, the first three are stored in the folder Windows reserves for the app and are deleted by Windows when you uninstall it. The files from section 4 live in that tool's own folder and are not removed on uninstall (so its status line doesn't suddenly break). Please press "Remove capture" in Settings before uninstalling the app.
Pinning: the card can be pinned to the desktop or shrunk into a strip above the taskbar; both are just the app's own windows. To step aside while a full-screen app (a game, a video, a presentation) is in front, the app asks Windows whether a full-screen app is running and which screen the front window is on. It never reads that window's title or contents.
"Start with Windows" only registers a startup entry with Windows and can be turned off at any time from the tray menu or Windows Settings. Low-usage alerts are local Windows notifications and don't go through any server.
This app is not designed for children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal data from children.
If this policy changes, the effective date on this page will be updated.
For any privacy question, email [email protected].
Developer website: fish-zero.com