July 10, 2026 · 1.023
Advanced analytics and Copilot visibility
See not just what today costs, but how your AI coding habit actually behaves. A full analytics workspace now opens on top of the compact dashboard — the trends, the rhythms, and the models quietly running up your bill — while GitHub Copilot joins the picture, honestly labeled. This is the update that turns a number into a story you can act on.
- Opened Advanced Analytics: provider filters, one-click CSV export, daily trends, token mix, cache-hit rate, and Calendar, Rhythm, and Model×Day heatmaps that show exactly when and where your spend happens.
- Made every heatmap cell open a focused model view with sortable columns and a timeframe control that keeps the whole workspace on screen — no scrolling, no digging.
- Welcomed GitHub Copilot CLI as an opt-in row from its own local telemetry, with token estimates kept visibly separate from every real dollar total, widget, and alert so the numbers you trust stay clean.
- Made turning a provider off feel instant — disabled sources vanish right away instead of lingering as confusing empty rows.
- Shipped smaller, faster updates, newest-model-first ordering, and day-one pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol.
July 8, 2026 · 1.016
Honest about what's free
Trust is the entire point of a cost tracker, so we made the free-versus-paid line unmistakable. The live dollar total in your menu bar is free forever — and we fixed every place the site had blurred it. If JP is going to watch your spending, it had better be straight with you first.
- Free forever now means exactly one thing you can count on: the live menu-bar dollar total, always on.
- Moved the 5-hour and weekly limit percentage into the licensed features, right alongside the full dashboard, widget, and 80% alerts.
- Rewrote the pricing FAQ so what you read is exactly what you get.
July 6, 2026 · 1.001
The little things that make it feel right
Great software is a hundred small kindnesses. Right after v1.0 we sanded down the launch site, the download, the pricing card, and the details you feel but never quite notice — the kind of polish that makes an app worth keeping in your menu bar.
- Made downloads start the instant you click, with the newsletter note staying friendly, optional, and out of your way.
- Kept the pricing card refreshingly direct: buy when you're ready, or grab the free trial in a single click.
- Polished the transactional emails so they read beautifully in both light and dark mode.
- Added real-render checks so a shipped widget can never quietly show up blank.
- Fixed the Test meow so alert sounds and interface sounds each stay their own delightful selves.
July 6, 2026 · 1.0
JP the Cat 1.0
JP the Cat grew up: a signed, notarized, self-updating Mac app that tells you what your AI coding actually costs — to the cent — with a real trial, a fair checkout, and a download you can trust. If you have ever wondered where your Claude Code or Codex spend really goes, this is the day to find out.
- Shipped Claude Code and Codex tracking with honest local math, clearly-labeled notional Codex pricing, and official limit gauges wherever the provider offers them.
- Published the stable download, update feed, checksum, and Homebrew cask from one signed artifact, so every install path points at the same trustworthy build.
- Proved the real installed-app experience on a clean, offline machine before ever calling it 1.0.
- Completed the paid journey end to end: checkout, a server-anchored trial, license email, activation, validation, refund handling, Free Mode, and widget access.
- Aligned the website, pricing, privacy, and terms with exactly what the app does — no more, no less.
July 6, 2026 · 0.128-0.131
Getting launch-ready
The last stretch before 1.0 was all about confidence — proving the release path, the widget, and the story we tell all hold up under real-world scrutiny.
- Added an offline-machine release gate so every broad release proves the real installed-app path, not just a developer build.
- Kept the Homebrew cask, stable manifest, and update feed perfectly in step with every public download.
- Restored configurable widget packaging and confirmed the widget is ready for the gallery.
- Sharpened the homepage around the real product, its honest analytics state, and why JP is different.
- Fixed the demo chart and tuned the launch copy, widget cards, and the little breathing sparkline.
July 5, 2026 · 0.117-0.127
Ready for everyone
This is where JP became something you could actually buy, share, and rely on — with a real checkout, beautiful email, accessibility for every user, and a noticeably snappier feel.
- Turned on live checkout, multi-Mac purchases, returning-buyer add-ons, a double opt-in newsletter, and branded confirmation pages.
- Gave license, newsletter, purchase, refund, and lifecycle emails one warm, consistent JP look.
- Strengthened privacy disclosures across the download, checkout, trial, and license flows so you always know what's happening.
- Grew our understanding of downloads without ever touching your prompts, code, transcripts, credentials, or license keys.
- Closed VoiceOver gaps across the dashboard, settings, widget, and loading screens.
- Made first-run animation and charts visibly smoother, then locked it in with quality and render gates.
July 4, 2026 · 0.109-0.116
A fair, honest way to pay
We built the entire license foundation the way we would want it as customers — a generous Free Mode, an honest trial, and clear alerts — and kept every public claim truthful the whole way through.
- Built the license server, checkout, signed leases, device identity, Keychain storage, and offline verification.
- Shipped Free Mode, server-anchored trials, license activation, a paste-key flow, and widget and theme access.
- Added tiered usage alerts and clearer menu-bar display options so a budget surprise never sneaks up on you.
- Kept the Buy button behind a safety switch until the live path was genuinely ready.
- Added the thank-you experience, a Buy-more flow, one-tap sharing, and a playful 404 page.
- Kept update notes clear of internal noise, so everything you read is written for you.
July 3-4, 2026 · 0.093-0.108
Make it yours
JP started to feel personal: a glanceable widget for your desktop, themes to match your setup, and easy ways to tell a friend about it.
- Shipped the widget with snapshot-only data and its own settings for provider focus and limit visibility.
- Added Sunlit Ledger and Midnight Ledger themes, with switching and contrast tested for real readability.
- Made the footer JP badge open a friendly 'tell others about JP' share in both the app and the homepage demo.
- Tucked shared actions neatly into the card footer and kept Settings calm and compact.
- Guarded release notes against empty, generic, or mechanical text — every note has to earn its place.
- Warmed up the sound cues and fixed the sharing links.
July 2-3, 2026 · 0.041-0.092
The dashboard finds its shape
These builds turned an early experiment into the fixed-width, always-accurate dashboard that defines JP today — the one you'll recognize the moment you open it.
- Brought first-run onboarding right into the dashboard, with a clear path to settings and licensing.
- Added opt-in Claude live limits while keeping every provider change explicit and easy to undo.
- Added provider availability states, resilient handling of quiet sources, and clearer notional and list-price labels so no number ever lies to you.
- Refined the status pill, right-click menu, tooltip, VoiceOver value, and multi-display positioning.
- Added budget alerts, smart refresh, and instant file-change updates so today's number is always current.
- Kept the homepage demo a faithful mirror of the real app.
July 2, 2026 · 0.017-0.040
Two faces, one calm app
The dashboard-and-settings model took shape, along with the split-flap money readout you'll recognize the second you open JP.
- Added the settings face, pin control, shared footer, update dot, Dock visibility, and launch-at-login.
- Moved toward the intrinsic-height card with its basis-label ticker and the split-flap money readout.
- Generated update notes from real history instead of a hand-kept changelog.
- Polished the legal snow-globe pages, homepage typography, and mobile layout.
- Fixed foregrounding so update windows and alert taps always come right to you.
June 30-July 1, 2026 · 0.001-0.016
Where JP began
The very first artifacts: a brand, a mascot, and a signed Mac app that proved the whole idea — know your AI coding cost, privately, on your own machine, with nothing to sign up for.
- Created the JP the Cat brand, mascot, website, privacy and terms pages, and SEO.
- Built the menu-bar app, a pure cost engine, Claude Code and Codex parsers, a persistent usage index, and the provider catalog.
- Renamed every internal identifier from the old TokenBar name to JP the Cat before shipping.
- Added self-updates, signed and notarized packaging, public release hosting, checksums, and the stable download route.
- Shipped the first dashboard, provider rows, local-day charts, timeframe picker, money formatting, and the light status pill.
- Introduced the snow-globe legal pages and the homepage demo that mirrors the app.
