See what is active.
See what needs you.
I run multiple agents at once. Claude Code on one task, Gemini on another, Codex doing its thing in the background. And I kept losing track. Which one finished? Which one is stuck? Which one quietly went off the rails 20 minutes ago?
That friction was real. So I sat down with Claude and built something to fix it. Tally sits in the macOS menu bar. It watches your CLI agents and tells you what is happening without you having to go check. That is it.
The problem
// WHY THIS EXISTSYou are doing real work.
Your agents are doing real work.
But nobody is talking to each other.
Here is what actually happens. You kick off Claude Code on a refactor. You open a new terminal and start Gemini on docs. You let Codex run in the background. Then you get pulled into a PR review.
By the time you come back, one agent finished 15 minutes ago and has been sitting idle. Another one hit a wall and is waiting on you. The third one drifted so far from the original task that you have to start over.
You did not need a task manager. You needed a signal. Something that just tells you: this one is fine, this one needs you, this one went sideways.
That is why Tally exists. Local. Small. Native. Out of the way.
Built for signal, not noise
// NO SETUP · NO ACCOUNT · NO ONBOARDINGFive clear states
Running, Waiting, Needs Review, Diverged, Done. Open the menu bar and you know exactly where things stand. No tabs.
Claude · Gemini · Codex
Each one shows up as itself. Tell at a glance who is moving, who is blocked, and who needs you to step in.
Zero config
Watches session files and running processes, ties them to branches and projects automatically. You configure nothing.
Elapsed time per task
A running timer on every active task. Tell the difference between real work and a process that has been sitting there 37 minutes doing nothing.
Lives in ~/.tally.json
No account. No sync. No cloud. No telemetry. Your data stays on your machine.
SwiftUI + AppKit
Under 5 MB. No Electron. It feels like it belongs on your Mac because it does.
Three agents. One place to watch them.
// TALLY NORMALIZES THE SIGNALOpen it fast. Script it if you want.
// HOTKEY · CLIOption + Shift + T
From anywhere. Requires Accessibility permission.
tally <verb>
Same local store. No server. No daemon.
Small by design. Fast by default.
// SPECSDownload it.
Get back to your agents.
I built this for myself. Turns out other people running multiple agents have the same problem. It is free, it is local, and it stays out of your way.