Use TripMode on your Mac from ChatGPT or Claude
Control your data usage on slow or expensive networks. With BCD, ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps can open TripMode on your Mac, read its window and press buttons or type, from your phone or another computer.
Works on
- MacPartly
Through the app's window, with macOS accessibility: BCD reads what TripMode shows and presses buttons, types and picks menus. How far it goes depends on the app. macOS asks once to allow it.
- WindowsNo
BCD controls app windows only on a Mac.
- LinuxNo
BCD controls app windows only on a Mac.
About TripMode
- Version
- 3.2.4,1385
- Installs (last 365 days)
- 438 · #1,274 among Homebrew apps
- Updates
- Updates itself
- Homepage
- www.tripmode.ch
- Install
brew install --cask tripmode
Try asking
“Open TripMode and tell me what is on its screen”
“Install TripMode with Homebrew”
“Quit TripMode and update it to the latest version”
Questions
Can ChatGPT control TripMode?
On a Mac with BCD, yes, through the app's window: ChatGPT can open TripMode, read the buttons and text it shows, press buttons, type and pick menu items. How far that goes depends on how much of its window TripMode exposes to macOS accessibility.
Does this work on Windows?
No. BCD controls app windows only on a Mac. On Windows and Linux it works with files and commands.
Is it safe?
A new computer starts read-only. Controlling the screen and apps is turned on per computer, and macOS asks once before BCD may control apps.
Try it on your computer
BCD connects ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps to your own Mac, Windows or Linux computer. One computer is free, with 20,000 tool calls a month and no card.
Program data from Homebrew, updated 2026-11-11. Installs are Homebrew's installs on request over the last 365 days.