TickerBar puts the prices you actually follow in your menu bar, where you can see them without opening anything. Stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies, side by side, updating on their own.
There is no account to make and no API key to paste. Install it, pick your symbols, and it starts working.
Highlights
- Always in view, never in the way - one symbol at a time in the menu bar with its price and the day's move. Pin the one you care about, or let it cycle through the whole list at whatever speed suits you.
- Stocks, funds and coins in one list - Apple next to the S&P 500 next to Bitcoin. Each row is labelled so you always know which is which.
- Nothing to sign up for - no account, no key, no trial that stops fetching prices. The data comes from public feeds the moment the app opens.
- The full list is one click away - open the menu bar dropdown for every symbol with its price, its percentage move and the change in dollars. Click any row to make it the one on display.
- Search by name or ticker - type "vanguard" or type "VOO". Results say plainly whether each one is a stock, an ETF or a coin before you add it.
- Knows when the market is shut - it stops chasing stock prices overnight and at weekends, because they are not moving. Crypto keeps updating around the clock, because it is.
- Honest when something is wrong - if a price feed starts refusing requests, the last known price stays on screen with the time it was taken, rather than blanking or throwing up an error box. A status page tells you exactly what happened and when it will try again.
- Ready the instant it opens - prices are remembered between launches, so the menu bar has real numbers before the first refresh finishes.
- Yours to arrange - drag rows into the order you think in. Choose the refresh rate, the price format, and whether it starts with your computer.
- A real desktop app - proper menus, full light and dark appearance, and a window you can close entirely while it keeps running quietly in the menu bar.
How it works
Open TickerBar and it starts with a stock, a fund and a coin already on the list so you can see what it does. Use Add symbol to search for the ones you follow, drag them into order, and remove the examples.
Close the window whenever you like. The app carries on in the menu bar, refreshing on the schedule you picked and showing either your pinned symbol or the whole list in rotation. Everything you choose is remembered.
Perfect for
- Anyone who checks the same handful of tickers several times a day and would rather glance than open a browser tab
- Long-term investors watching a few index funds without wanting a trading platform
- People holding crypto who want the price in front of them at three in the morning as well as at three in the afternoon
- Employees keeping half an eye on their own company's share price
- Anyone who has tried a price widget that demanded an account and an API key before it would show a single number
