Honey, I Shrunk the AI
All of Honey.
One quiet Windows app.
One click, and you save up to 40% of your token usage without quality loss.
Honey for Windows installs the Honey discipline into every coding agent you run, then sits in your system tray counting the tokens, money and CO₂ you never spent.
Free · Windows 10 or 11 · x64 · Also for Mac
The app
Quietly saving, everywhere you code.
One window shows everything: which agents Honey is trimming, what it saved you today, and where the number comes from. Every figure is a modelled estimate against a no-Honey baseline, and the captions say so.
1.3.16 · Check for updates
One switch per tool
Thirteen tools. Zero config files.
Honey detects the coding agents on your PC and installs itself the way each one expects: a plugin, an extension, or a rule file. Flip the switch off and it removes itself just as cleanly.
- CC Claude Code Plugin + 🍯 statusline badge
- CX Codex Plugin marketplace
- CU Cursor Project rule file
- GE Gemini CLI Extension
- CL Cline Rule file · compact
- WS Windsurf Rule file
- CP GitHub Copilot CLI Plugin marketplace
- OW OpenClaw ClawHub skills
- CE Copilot (editor) copilot-instructions.md
- OC OpenCode Global AGENTS.md + skills
- KI Kilo Code Rule file
- KR Kiro Steering file
- AG AGENTS.md (universal) Aider · Zed · any agent
Open source
Read the discipline before you trust it.
The discipline is MIT
Everything Honey actually does to your agents is public and MIT licensed: read it, fork it, run it by hand. The Windows app is free, but its own source stays closed.
Honest numbers
Savings are modelled counterfactuals, never measurements dressed up as facts. Carbon figures come from EcoLogits (MPL-2.0), and every caption in the app says what the number really is.
The same Honey
The app installs the exact open-source Honey that developers set up by hand. It just does the installing, the updating and the counting for you.
Honey for Windows, in short
Is Honey for Windows free?
Yes. There is no account, no trial, and nothing to unlock. The Honey discipline it installs is open source under MIT; the Windows app itself is closed source.
What does it need to run?
Windows 10 or 11 on a 64-bit PC. It ships as a signed per-user installer, so it needs no admin rights, and it lives in your system tray. Honey runs its installers and counters through Node.js; if Node is missing, onboarding installs the LTS release for you with winget.
Does it send my data anywhere?
No. Honey reads your local session ledgers to model savings and writes its config into your tools. Everything stays on your PC, with no account. The only thing it can send is an anonymous launch count to our own server, and that is a switch in Settings.
How does it update?
Honey checks its release feed on launch and installs updates quietly in the background. You can also check from the tray at any time, and every build is code-signed.
How are the savings calculated?
They are modelled counterfactuals: what the same sessions would have cost without Honey, based on tracked token counts. Carbon figures come from EcoLogits (MPL-2.0), and every caption in the app labels its number as an estimate.
Does Honey change what my agents produce?
No. Honey shrinks the waste, not the substance. Code and technical terms stay exact; what goes is the filler, the hedging, and the work that never needed to happen.
Is there a Mac version?
Yes. Honey for Mac is the same app for macOS 14 and later, with the same discipline, the same tools and the same counters, from the menu bar instead of the tray.
Free download
Shrink your AI, straight from the system tray.
Download Honey for Windows, flip the switches for your tools, and let it save quietly from the first session.
- Free · no account
- Windows 10 or 11 · x64
- Lower CO2