TickerNotch

Live stock + crypto tickers and scrolling news headlines in the black bars flanking your MacBook notch. Click to expand into candlestick charts. 7-day full trial, then a free version forever. No card required.

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Live tickers

BTC, ETH, SPX, NDX, oil, gas, NVDA, gold, VIX. Live where the source is live, badged "Delayed" where it isn't.

Scrolling news

Your RSS channels as a marquee. Breaking items get flagged.

Candlestick charts

Click to expand: 1m / 5m / 15m / 1h candles for everything on your watchlist.

One search box

Type a name or symbol and add stocks, indices, ETFs, futures or coins. Changes go live without a restart.

Full-screen aware

Auto-hide when you go full-screen, or only while you're watching video. Your call.

No telemetry

No analytics, no accounts. Market data is fetched by the app itself on your own Mac, and crash logs stay local.

Install and guide

Download and open

Download the DMG and drag TickerNotch.app to your /Applications folder. It's signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens on the first try. No right-click, no Gatekeeper warning. You need macOS 14 Sonoma or later. It looks best on a MacBook with the hardware notch. If your Mac doesn't have one, or you're on an external display, turn on simulated-notch mode in Settings.

First run

Launch TickerNotch and your tickers and news show up in the notch right away. It lives in the menu bar with no Dock icon and no window to manage. You get the full version free for 7 days. After that the free version keeps running, no card needed.

Add your tickers

Open Settings, then Tickers. One search box takes stocks, indices, ETFs, futures and crypto, so type a name or a symbol and add it. The eye next to each ticker decides what shows on the strip. Drag to reorder. Anything you change takes effect right away, no restart.

Read the strip

Each ticker is badged Live where the data source is live and Delayed where it isn't. The grid sizes itself to the notch, so fewer tickers means bigger text. The daily percentage resets at midnight in your own timezone, wherever you are.

Holdings and P&L Pro

Tell TickerNotch what you hold: a quantity and an entry price per ticker, long or short. The notch then shows the dollar profit or loss on that position instead of the daily percent. The expanded panel keeps the daily move and adds your average cost and current value.

Charts Pro

Click a ticker's chart in the expanded panel and a full candlestick chart opens in its own window, near the bottom of the screen so it stays clear of the notch. Resize it, move it, leave it open. You can have several open at once, one per ticker. Indicators include moving averages, Bollinger Bands, RSI, MACD, Supertrend and Volume Profile. Timeframes run from 1 minute to 1 day.

Alerts

In Settings, then Alerts, set an alert on a ticker. There are two kinds. A % move alert fires when the price moves at least the percent you pick within a timeframe, up, down, or either way. A price alert fires when the price crosses a level you set, rising above it or falling below it. Either way you get a Mac notification, and clicking it opens that ticker's chart. TickerNotch has to be running for an alert to fire. Free covers one alert. Pro is unlimited.

Free vs Pro

Free, forever: one ticker on the strip, one news channel, one alert. Pro shows all your tickers and channels at once and adds holdings P&L, the chart windows, and unlimited alerts.

Troubleshooting

Support

Email support@bitvibelabs.com. Find a real bug and report it and you get at least a month of Pro free. Bigger finds earn more.

TickerNotch shows market data for information only. It isn't financial advice, and prices can be delayed or differ from official sources.