Switch Claude accounts without losing your chats.

A macOS menu bar app for people with more than one Claude account, like a work plan, a school plan and a personal one. It shows the 5-hour and weekly usage of every account at once. One click switches the Claude desktop app to another account, and your open Claude Code chats come with you: same history, same worktrees.

ClaudeAccounts is an independent project. It is not made, endorsed or supported by Anthropic. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic. Use each account under Anthropic's terms for that account.

The Claude desktop app holds one account at a time. Signing out and back in as another account works, but your open Claude Code chats stay behind with the old account. ClaudeAccounts swaps the account for you and carries the chats over, and its menu shows at a glance which account has room left.

brew install --cask rohannaga/tap/claudeaccounts

Or download ClaudeAccounts-<version>.zip from the latest release, unzip it, and move Claude Accounts to Applications.

You also need the Claude desktop app, and Claude Code installed at ~/.local/bin/claude (the app uses it to sign in to each account). The app runs on macOS 15 or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. It was tested with Claude desktop 2.9939.2 on macOS 27.

The app isn't notarized by Apple, so macOS stops the first launch with "Apple could not verify Claude Accounts is free of malware". Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway. If you'd rather use Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Claude Accounts.app"

1. Click the gauge in the menu bar, then Add Account…. Your browser opens Claude's sign-in page; paste the code it shows back into the app. Repeat for each account.
2. For every account other than the one Claude is signed in to, click Set Up. Claude reopens at its sign-in page; sign in as that account. This saves the account's Claude login without signing the others out.
3. From then on, Switch on any row moves Claude, and your open chats, to that account.

Switching works by editing the Claude desktop app's own files while it is quit: its cookie database, its settings file and its chat records. None of that is a public interface, and an update to Claude can change it. The app is built to fail closed. It backs everything up first, refuses to act when something looks off, and undoes a switch that Claude doesn't confirm. Still, use it at your own risk, and keep the backups in the app's backups folder until you trust it on your setup.

Remove on an account's ··· menu signs its login out and deletes its keychain item. To uninstall, remove your accounts, quit the app, and delete it and the ~/Library/Application Support/ClaudeAccounts folder.

Switch on a row signs the Claude desktop app in as that account and brings your open Code sessions along:

1. It asks Claude to quit the way ⌘Q does and waits until Claude's process is gone. If a chat is mid-reply Claude asks first; answering Cancel ends the switch at once with nothing changed.
2. It backs up Claude's Cookies and config.json and writes a journal before changing anything.
3. It saves the current account's login (its claude.ai cookie rows and three settings keys), but only if Claude's log and settings agree on who that account is.
4. It loads the target account's saved login.
5. It moves each open session's record (not archived, not a scheduled run) from claude-code-sessions/<account>/<org> to the target's folder. The session id, transcript, worktree and lease stay the same. If the target already has a copy, the newer one wins and the older one goes to the backup's quarantine.
6. It reopens Claude. The switch counts only when Claude's log reports the target account and organization. A sign-out, another account, or no answer within a minute undoes every step from the journal.

The account shown as In use is the one Claude's own log reports: the line Claude writes each time it loads an account's chats, naming the account and its organization. Each switch leaves a folder in backups with the files from before it and switch.json listing what moved; the last ten are kept.

From a terminal outside Claude, ClaudeAccounts --status prints what a switch would act on, and ClaudeAccounts --switch <name> runs one. The binary is at Claude Accounts.app/Contents/MacOS/ClaudeAccounts.

• About once a minute the app reads each account's usage from the same endpoint and at the same pace as the Claude app's own reader. Asking faster earns HTTP 429 with a multi-minute Retry-After; when that happens the row keeps its last numbers, notes when it will retry, and waits exactly that long.
• Access tokens last about 8 hours. When one is close to expiry the app runs claude -p /usage --no-session-persistence for that account, and Claude Code renews the login itself. This spends no model usage.
• Each login has a fixed deadline about four weeks out that renewals don't extend. A day before it, the row shows Sign in again and the menu bar icon turns into a warning.
• Each row's ··· menu can Rename an account and pick its Color. The header's ··· menu sets what the menu bar shows and whether the gauge follows the 5-hour or the weekly limit. Open at Login registers the app in System Settings › Login Items.

• A claude setup-token token can't read usage, because it lacks the user:profile scope. That's why the app uses full logins.
• Switching depends on Claude's cookie schema (version 24), its session-record layout, and one log line. If an update changes them, a switch fails closed: it is refused or undone rather than half-applied.
• Archived sessions and scheduled-task runs stay with the account they belong to.
• A chat that was running in bypass-permissions mode may come back in a safer mode after the restart; Claude re-launches it without the bypass flag.

git clone https://github.com/RohanNaga/ClaudeAccounts.git
cd ClaudeAccounts
./build.sh
open "Claude Accounts.app"

It needs the Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install). build.sh compiles one binary for Apple Silicon and Intel with swiftc; release.sh builds and zips it into dist/ for a GitHub release and prints the checksum the Homebrew cask needs. The icon is drawn by app/make-icon.swift; delete app/AppIcon.icns to regenerate it. Before 0.3 the app kept its state in a data folder beside itself; the first launch of 0.3 moves it to Application Support and carries each login's keychain item over.

MIT. See LICENSE.