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You need Environment variable. About two minutes.

1Get your Environment variable

Environment variable

cloudinary://key:secret@cloud-name
  1. Click the Settings icon in the left sidebar of the Console.
  2. Choose Go to API Keys.
  3. Copy the API environment variable, CLOUDINARY_URL.
  4. Replace the placeholders with your real API key and secret.

Copy CLOUDINARY_URL from the dashboard. It carries all three parts.

Open the page

https://console.cloudinary.com/app/settings/api-keys

2Add it to CreditBar

  1. Open CreditBar from the menu bar and choose Settings, then Accounts.
  2. Click Add account and pick Cloudinary.
  3. Paste the Environment variable into the matching field, and give the account a label you will recognise.
  4. Click Test connection, then Add. Numbers appear in the menu bar within a minute.

Keys are stored in your Mac's Keychain and only ever sent to Cloudinary. Nothing passes through a CreditBar server.

3What it reads

Reports
monthly credit allowance, and what transformations and storage have used
Calls
https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/{cloud}/usage
Refreshes
At most every 5 minutes
API docs
Cloudinary reference, checked 2026-09-16

Credits cover transformations, storage and bandwidth together, so one can exhaust the lot.