Back
Stop checking. Know when your AI tools are back
What it does
Back is a tiny Mac menu bar app for AI outages. It watches Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot and more, then tells you when they’re usable again. Pro keeps watching while your Mac sleeps and can notify you through Slack, Telegram or email.
Back is a macOS menu bar app that monitors Claude, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Cursor, Gemini and GitHub Copilot status, and notifies you the moment a service is back up. Free for seven days, then $5 once.
Back watches Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT and the AI tools you rely on, then tells you when you can continue working. Here is the same hour, twice. On the left, you watching. On the right, Back watching. Follow the clock down. Everything else in Back — the polling, the priority order, the verification — exists so that this arrives at the right minute, once. So Back keeps watching when your Mac sleeps, and sends the same sentence somewhere you actually are. Pick a channel. Back posts one message to a channel you pick — usually the one your team is already complaining in. Back messages you directly, so the alert reaches your pocket rather than a sleeping laptop. One plain-text line to one address…from backstatus.app
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