Relais 0.3.1

Relais 0.3.1 notices the usage resets you take, and shows those you have left.

New

• A reset you take is noted. Some plans can reset a limit for free on claude.ai, in Settings > Usage: the 5-hour limit, the week, both, or since Fable 5.2 what Fable used of the week. When a limit falls while its window still runs, Relais notes the reset. The account is no longer shown as paused, its line says “reset 22:15” for a day, and its card says what was reset and from how much.
• Resets left, when known. When Claude Code has learned which resets an account holds, the card lists them by kind with their end date, and a paused account's line says one is there to use. Otherwise a paused account tells you where to see them. Relais never asks Anthropic and never uses a reset itself.
• relais list shows the same lines under each account.

Fixed

• An account stayed paused after a reset. When Anthropic holds back requests to the usage page for a while, Claude Code shows the last figures it had. Relais now fails that measure instead of keeping old figures. It also takes the figures Claude Code keeps in its own config whenever they are newer, which spares a measure.

Install

Relais 0.2.0 and later offer this version by themselves. Otherwise, download the DMG below, or use Homebrew:

brew tap bvisible/tap
brew install --cask relais

The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. To check your download:

shasum -a 256 -c Relais-0.3.1-universal.dmg.sha256

Relais is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Relais 0.3.0

Relais 0.3.0 keeps your artifacts when you change account.

New

• Artifacts follow you. An artifact belongs to the account that published it, and its page is written to a temporary folder, so after a switch it can be neither changed nor found. Turn on Keep artifacts in the settings, or run relais artifacts-install: every artifact published from your Mac is copied to ~/.relais/artifacts with its link, title, account and project, and a skill tells the agent to look there first and to publish the copy again when the account in use cannot change the original. The new link is recorded as following the old one.
• Artifacts in the panel. They are listed under Conversations, with the account that published them, a button to open the link and one to show the copy in the Finder.
• relais artifacts lists them, and relais artifacts path "<title>" prints the page of the latest copy.

To keep the very same link across accounts, share an artifact once with your other addresses, with “Can edit”. Keeping artifacts adds one PostToolUse hook and one skill to ~/.claude; relais artifacts-uninstall takes them back and leaves the copies. Comments and the page's stored data stay on claude.ai.

Install

Relais 0.2.0 and later offer this version by themselves. Otherwise, download the DMG below, or use Homebrew:

brew tap bvisible/tap
brew install --cask relais

The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. To check your download:

shasum -a 256 -c Relais-0.3.0-universal.dmg.sha256

Relais is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Relais 0.2.2

Relais 0.2.2 fixes measures that could stop for good.

Fixed

• Measures no longer freeze. A measure stuck while closing kept all the others waiting: the figures went stale and the refresh button never came back. Relais now moves on without it.
• The official client gets time to stop. After a measure it was killed at once, possibly while saving a renewed sign-in. It now gets a few seconds to finish, which may also keep accounts from being signed out on their own.

Install

Relais 0.2.0 and later offer this version by themselves. Otherwise, download the DMG below, or use Homebrew:

brew tap bvisible/tap
brew install --cask relais

The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. To check your download:

shasum -a 256 -c Relais-0.2.2-universal.dmg.sha256

Relais is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Relais 0.2.1

Relais 0.2.1 follows up on 0.2.0 with better advice and an easier setup.

New

• Advice that looks ahead. At your current pace, Relais marks the account that will last the longest, counting those whose week starts over before they run out.
• Add a folder from the panel. Settings now pick a folder and an account, without the command line.

Fixed

• Update archives no longer carry macOS metadata that stopped the installation.
• A failed update now says why, and a check from the settings says when a version is available.

Install

Relais 0.2.0 and later offer this version by themselves. Otherwise, download the DMG below, or use Homebrew:

brew tap bvisible/tap
brew install --cask relais

The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. To check your download:

shasum -a 256 -c Relais-0.2.1-universal.dmg.sha256

Relais is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Relais 0.2.0

Relais now warns you before a limit, picks up what a switch stopped, and updates itself.

New

• Alerts before the limit. A notification at 85% and 95% names the account with the most room, and its button opens the confirmation. Another tells you when a paused account is back.
• Forecast. At the current pace, the panel says when the account in use reaches its limit.
• Resume after a switch. The sessions a switch stopped are listed, one click from running again.
• Switch when it's done. With sessions running, Relais can wait, tell you when they finish, and ask again.
• Where the week went. See which projects consumed the most, in the conversations tab or with relais projects.
• One account per folder. relais folder set work ~/Projects/client makes Claude Code always start there on that account.
• A widget and a shortcut. Your limits on the desktop, in three sizes (macOS 14 or later), and Control-Option-R to open the panel from anywhere.
• Updates in one click. From this version on, Relais tells you when a new version is out and installs it when you say so.
• Safer switches. The workspace is checked before anything moves, what Relais does not recognize is refused, and a newer major version of Claude Desktop is said out loud. Conversations a switch set aside come back from the settings.
• Intel Macs. The download now runs on Apple Silicon and Intel.

Install

Download the DMG below, or use Homebrew:

brew install --cask bvisible/tap/relais

Then follow the setup guide. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. To check your download:

shasum -a 256 -c Relais-0.2.0-universal.dmg.sha256

Version 0.1.0 cannot update itself: install this one by hand, once.

Good to know

• A real switch was last checked on Claude Desktop 3.6556. Relais warns you on newer major versions: please tell us how it goes.
• Tested on macOS 26 and 27 on Apple Silicon. On Intel, the command and the test suite run in CI; the app itself has not been tried on a real Intel Mac.
• The first alert asks macOS for permission to show notifications.

Relais is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Relais 0.1.0

The first release of Relais, a Claude account switcher for Mac.

What it does

• Switch accounts in one click. Claude Desktop reopens on the next account, new terminals follow, and every conversation, pin and folder stays where it was.
• See every limit at a glance. Each account shows its 5-hour and weekly usage, and when it comes back if it is paused.
• Know where to go. Relais marks the account with the most room left. It suggests, you decide.
• Keep your credentials to yourself. Relais never reads, copies or stores a token, a cookie or a password.

Install

Download the DMG below, open it and drag Relais to Applications, then follow the setup guide. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

To check your download:

shasum -a 256 -c Relais-0.1.0-arm64.dmg.sha256

Good to know

• Needs macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon. Tested on macOS 26 and 27, with Claude Desktop 3.6556 and Claude Code 2.1.314.
• A switch closes Claude Desktop, so sessions working inside it stop. The confirmation tells you how many.
• There are no automatic updates yet: new versions come out on this page.
• This is an early version. Please open an issue if something does not work for you.

Relais is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.