Porter
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Hit the limit. Keep the conversation.

Porter carries your Claude Code sessions from an account at its usage limit to one with room left, so you pick up right where Claude stopped.

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macOS 14 or later · free and open source · 10 languages

The conversation never belonged to an account.

Claude Code keeps every conversation in its own folder on your Mac, shared by all accounts. What belongs to an account is only Claude Desktop's short list of sessions. Porter moves the entry in that list, clears the limit error and brings along the git worktrees the session uses.

Several Claude Desktops, side by side.

Claude Desktop normally runs one account at a time. With Porter, each profile is its own Claude Desktop with its own sign-in, settings and sessions, in the Dock and in ⌘-Tab like any app. When one account runs out, keep working in the next window.

Optionally, Claude links from the browser open in the profile you used last.

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Every account at a glance.

Click the porter in the menu bar: each account shows its 5-hour and 7-day usage, the sessions stopped by a limit, and one button to move them where there is room.

Live usage, when you want it.

Turn on Live Usage and Porter asks claude.ai every few minutes, with each profile's own session, as Claude's usage screen does. You also see when each limit resets, and limits that apply to one model only, such as Fable.

All your sessions, in one window.

  • Sessions grouped by project, with search and filters
  • Move or copy them to another account, or drag them onto it
  • Archive, restore and delete, with a backup before every change
  • Move a project folder and every session that uses it follows
Porter's main window: accounts in a sidebar, sessions grouped by project, and an action bar with Archive, Delete and Move To
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And from the command line.

The same app moves sessions from your scripts.

$ alias porter="/Applications/Porter for Claude Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Porter"$ porter --list # accounts, profiles and their session lists$ porter --move --from WORK --to PERSONAL --dry-run # what would happen, without changing anything$ porter --move --from WORK --to PERSONAL --restart # move, closing and reopening Claude Desktop

Install in a minute.

  1. Download

    Get Porter.dmg, open it and drag Porter to Applications.

    Porter.dmg

  2. Allow it once

    Porter is not notarized, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway, or run:

    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Porter for Claude Desktop.app"

  3. Sign in and go

    Click the porter in the menu bar, make a profile for each account and sign in. From then on Porter updates itself.

Keep the conversation going.

Download for Mac

Requires macOS 14 or later and Claude Desktop.