Background of my idea: I trade as a side hustle. I used to keep browser tabs or use paid software (e.g. TradingView) just to check charts and news. I was ending up spending countless hours just staring at charts and falling into news rabbit holes overanalyzing and getting distracted (thanks to my ADHD too). I have a MacBook Pro and noticed some apps taking advantage of the notch (which I never got used to it NGL). So my idea was to build an app from scratch that shows everything I needed to stay up to date, avoiding distractions, with markets + global news (market tickers + RSS feeds). Also, I integrated candlestick charts with indicators, portfolio tracking and notifications (to cover the most important part of TradingView). I even ended up adding local computer metrics like CPU+RAM usage, social metrics and the weather. Since i understand not every mac has a notch, I added the feature of a simulated one, and being able to pin any metric in the menu bar.

Some tech details: Native Swift/SwiftUI, 7 MB DMG, notarized, macOS 14+. Crypto comes from Hyperliquid's allMids WebSocket, stocks from polling Yahoo, all fetched in-process on your Mac. The notch is detected with safeAreaInsets.top > 0, the two side rectangles come from NSScreen's auxiliaryTopLeftArea and auxiliaryTopRightArea, and the strip is an NSPanel sitting above the menu bar window level.

No accounts. The only thing it sends is optional anonymous usage stats.

Free forever after a 7-day trial: one slot of each kind, one news feed, one alert. Pro is $5/mo or $40 lifetime. Find a real bug and I'll give you at least a month of Pro.

One thing I want feedback on: The performance/battery impact of it. Until now I had great comments regarding this but the user base mostly has newer devices. By the way in the settings the fps that notch caps at, can be adjusted for further performance optimization

You can brew install --cask bitvibelabs/tap/tickernotch