TickerNotch for Mac

Live tickers, weather and news around your MacBook notch

TickerNotch transforms the space beside the MacBook notch, the pixels nothing else touches, into the pulse of everything you follow. Always in view while you work.

One search box adds anything to the strip. Type a symbol for a stock, index, ETF, future or coin. Type a city for weather: temperature, high and low, feels like, rain chance, rain amount, UV or wind. Type a handle for a live follower count from YouTube, GitHub, Twitch, Bluesky or Mastodon. Two more rows show your own machine: CPU load with memory used, and network download with upload, sampled locally so nothing leaves your Mac.

Each side of the notch is yours to set. One flank can scroll all your news while the other shows only breaking headlines, where breaking means a title matching your own keywords or anything from a channel you marked as an alerts source. Or run news on both sides with different channels on each, and no market tickers at all.

Pin any slot to the macOS menu bar as its own live item. Click a pinned item and a panel opens with the detail behind it: a mini chart with the day's high and low for a ticker, every reading for a weather place, the current count for a social counter.

Traders get more. Enter a position and the notch shows live dollar profit or loss instead of the daily percent. Click a ticker for a candlestick chart window with moving averages, Bollinger Bands, RSI, MACD, Supertrend and Volume Profile, from 1-minute to daily. Price alerts fire native macOS notifications when a level is crossed or a move is big enough, measured over a rolling window or from the daily open.

It is native Swift and SwiftUI, a small download, signed and notarized by Apple. There is no account and no tracking of you. Once a day the app sends an anonymous usage report: its own version, your macOS version and Mac type, and how many slots of each kind you use, counted in ranges. It never sends a symbol, a city, a handle, a feed or anything that identifies you or your Mac, and one switch in Settings turns it off. Your Mac fetches all market and weather data directly.

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Macs without a notch, and external displays, get a simulated island instead.

Free forever with one slot of each kind, one news channel, one alert and one menu bar pin. Pro removes the limits at $5 a month or $40 lifetime, after a 7-day full trial that needs no card.