You started measuring it.
Now make it count.

Purchase happens directly inside the app — open Preferences (⌘,) → Pro tab → click "Buy Pro". After checkout completes, your license key is shown immediately in the app. Copy it to activate on your other Macs.

Yes — one license works on all your Macs. Buy once, activate anywhere.

Your key is shown in the app immediately after purchase — copy it from Preferences → Pro. If you've lost it, send a message via the feedback page with your Paddle order ID and we'll sort it out.

The free version of Human Token is the trial. It has everything you need to understand how the app works and whether it fits your workflow. Pro is for when you want to go deeper.

It depends on how AI-heavy your day is. A good starting point: 3k–8k for occasional ChatGPT or Claude.ai questions; 10k–16k for regular AI-assisted writing or code review; 18k–25k for intense Claude Code or Cursor sessions. The best approach: watch your natural usage for a week in the free version, then set a goal roughly 15% above your average. That way it nudges you without feeling punishing.

Look for patterns you wouldn't notice day-to-day. If your token count drops every Thursday, you're probably in back-to-back meetings — that's calendar debt made visible. If it spikes on Sunday evenings, you're doing more catch-up work than you think. Week-over-week comparison is especially useful when you adopt a new tool: switching from GitHub Copilot to Cursor, or starting to use Claude for code review — you'll see exactly whether it changed your output or just your habits.

Set it at 70–80% of your daily goal. When the alert appears mid-afternoon, it's a signal to switch into wrap-up mode rather than starting a fresh task. Think of it as a natural Pomodoro for deep AI work — without any timers. A second useful threshold: set a lower alert at around 30% for a morning check-in. If you've already burned through a third of your goal before lunch, you know it's a dense day and can plan accordingly.

A few things people find useful: import it into Numbers or Excel to build a personal productivity dashboard; paste it into Claude and ask "what patterns do you see in my AI usage?" (very meta, surprisingly useful); for freelancers, cross-reference it with your project notes to understand AI-assisted hours per client; for engineers on a team, share a monthly snapshot with your manager to make the case for an AI tooling budget upgrade.

Yes — Claude Code is tracked specifically. Human Token checks every 30 seconds whether the Claude CLI process is running. When it is, time spent in the terminal is counted as AI Collaboration — the highest-rate activity category — rather than plain terminal work. Regular terminal sessions without Claude running accumulate tokens at a much lower rate, so the distinction is meaningful. Cursor desktop is similarly recognised as an AI tool automatically. Over time you'll see exactly how much of your coding time is human-led vs. AI-led.