For Claude Code power users

Your Claude Code,
beautifully visualized.

CCFriend is the desktop & web companion for Claude Code. Track tokens and cost, browse session transcripts, watch hook events live, manage plugins & skills, edit your statusline — all from one calm, well-lit place.

Download Star on GitHub

Native desktop app (Tauri) + standalone web server
Reads ~/.claude/ directly — no daemon, no telemetry
Open source, MIT — Linux / macOS / Windows / WSL

Usage panel — daily cost & tokens, grouped by model, project, or session.

Everything in ~/.claude, made browsable.

Twenty-plus panels, one quiet interface. Powered by ccost for usage math and Tauri v2 for the desktop shell.

Usage & Cost

Token and dollar charts grouped by hour, day, month, session, project, or model. 5h / 1w window budgets with reset countdowns.

Session Transcripts

Three-pane browser for every conversation. Filter by role, tool, content type. Subagents expand inline. Export to JSON / Markdown / HTML.

Live Hook Events

Real-time SSE stream of all 22 Claude Code hook events. PreToolUse ↔ PostToolUse pairing, full JSON, NDJSON export.

Plugins & Marketplace

Install, update, enable, and disable plugins. Browse marketplace catalogs, view skill docs, manage the blocklist.

Skills & Subagents

Create, edit, and delete skill definitions, custom slash commands, and subagents — with schema-aware frontmatter and live preview.

StatusLine Editor

Drag & drop modules — Git, Cost, Rate Limit, Context — into a live-previewed statusline. Generates a portable .sh script.

Obsidian-style Notes

[[wikilinks]], ![[embeds]], folder tree, three-mode editor. Reports live here too as custom dashboards.

File History & Rewind

Browse versioned snapshots, diff any two versions, restore a single file or rewind an entire session — with undo.

data panels

platforms · Linux / macOS / Windows

30+

display currencies

telemetry, ever

Get the desktop app

One binary per platform. No background services, no auto-updaters running on your machine.

macOS

Universal · Apple Silicon & Intel

Download .dmg →

Windows

x64 · Native + WSL auto-detect

Download .msi →

Linux

AppImage · .deb · .rpm

Download AppImage →

All builds on GitHub Releases · checksums included · MIT licensed.

Headless / server mode

Or run it in a browser tab.

ccf is a single Rust binary. Install via Cargo, point your browser at http://127.0.0.1:7890, and you have the same UI in any tab on any machine.

Mounts your existing ~/.claude/ read-only by default
Non-loopback hosts auto-reject mutating requests
--wsl auto-detects your WSL distro on Windows

~ — bash

$ cargo install ccfriend
    Compiling ccfriend v0.x.x
    Finished `release` profile
  Installing ~/.cargo/bin/ccf

$ ccf
→ ccfriend listening on http://127.0.0.1:7890
→ reading ~/.claude
→ SSE live · 187 sessions indexed in 412ms

Your Claude Code, beautifully visualized.