Hi HN!

Frustrated with Claude Code usage limits I stumbled upon the awesome Headroom project by Tejas Chopra. After jumping through the hoops to install it, I realized the majority of devs don't necessarily use python and aren't comfortable just installing pip packages so I set out to create a Mac App wrapper with Tejas blessing. Here it is!

What Headroom does: It sits between your editor and Claude, compressing what gets sent — trimming redundant context, stripping boilerplate, and compressing documents — without dropping anything semantically meaningful. The result is roughly 2x more usage out of the same Claude plan.

Everything runs locally. Your prompts never touch our servers.

Pricing: Free tier available. Paid plans start at $5/mo and are tiered to match Claude's own plan structure (Pro, Max x5, Max x20). 14-day trial on signup.

Happy to answer questions about how the compression works, or anything else.