Pulse is a lightweight macOS menu bar market tracker that puts the prices, trends, and position performance you care about right in your menu bar — from pre-market to after hours, without leaving what you're working on.
Key Features
- Menu Bar Ticker: Icon-only by default for discretion, or optionally show quotes as a pinned single symbol
- Multi-List Watchlists: Organize symbols into named lists and switch from the list bar on top — drag to reorder, jump with ⌘1–9, and point the menu-bar ticker at any list
- Position P&L: Add cost and quantity, then click any value to flip the whole list between change, today's P&L, and total P&L
- True Candlesticks: Candles with precisely aligned volume, wheel zoom, and horizontal browsing — plus 5-minute, 15-minute, 30-minute, and 1-hour resolutions
- Extended Hours Built In: US intraday covers 04:00–20:00 ET. Pre- and post-market sessions render as gray wings with clear 9:30 / 16:00 boundaries
- Smart Data Routing: Providers are routed per market, cached to reduce duplicate requests, and fail over automatically when one is rate-limited or down
- Crypto Support: Cryptocurrency search, quotes, and charts use Binance Spot public market-data endpoints, with locally cached 24-hour symbol catalog and 1-second WebSocket ticker updates
- Multi-Language: Follows the system language when possible, with manual switching between English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese
Data Sources
Pulse routes market data per provider:
- US Stocks: Yahoo Finance
- China A-Shares & HK Stocks: Tencent / Longbridge (optional custom connection)
- Crypto: Binance Spot
Installation
Download the latest .dmg from GitHub Releases, open it, and drag Pulse.app to Applications before launching.
Pulse is open source under the MIT license.
