Checking a price shouldn't be a whole thing.
Three tabs, a search, and a cookie banner -
to see one number.
Already there. Already current.
Click only when you're curious.
Candlebar lives where your eyes already go a hundred times a day. The price is simply there - current, quiet, out of the way. And when a glance isn't enough, one click opens a real chart - high, low, range, one-minute to daily candles. Then it's gone again.
Get the highlights.
Click for the whole story. A real chart when you want one - high, low, range, one-minute to daily candles, zoomable with your mouse. Then it's gone again.
Always current, quietly. Eight free data sources with automatic failover. The number is never stale - and you never sign up for anything.
Coinbase
Kraken
Bitstamp
Gemini
Binance.US
CoinGecko
Hyperliquid
Yahoo FinanceA glance, not a session. The price you care about, always in view. Nothing to open, nothing to refresh, nothing to close.
Coins and stocks. Track one coin, one stock, or a short list of both. Choose what earns a place in the menu bar - the rest wait in the dropdown.
Designed to disappear. Brightness, font weight, grayscale, a barely-there flash. It blends in so well you'll forget it - until you wonder.
Private by design. No account. No API keys. No analytics. Prices go from the exchange to your Mac - nowhere else.
Not built for day traders. Built for the rest of us - the ones with one price we can't stop checking. Candlebar turns that habit into a glance: always there, never in the way - the answer, exactly where your eyes already are.
Looks right at home. Both homes.
Three menu bar styles. As loud as you want. Which is to say, not very.
Questions? Answers.
Does it need an account or API key?+
No. Download it, click the candle in your menu bar, done. Candlebar reads public market data straight from the exchanges.
Which coins can I track?+
Anything listed on the major exchanges or CoinGecko - which is to say, nearly everything. Search by name or symbol, add it, and choose whether it lives in the menu bar or waits in the dropdown.
Where do the prices come from?+
Straight from the sources. Candlebar talks directly to the public APIs of Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, Gemini, Binance.US, CoinGecko, and Hyperliquid for crypto, and Yahoo Finance for stocks. You pick a preferred source; if it fails or rate-limits, the app quietly switches to the next one. Charts are built from the same sources' historical candles. There is no Candlebar server in the middle - your Mac asks, the exchange answers.
What about stocks?+
Yes - search any US-listed stock or ETF and it gets the same quiet treatment: price in the menu bar, chart on click. Stock data comes from Yahoo Finance's public API.
Will it drain my battery?+
No. It's native Swift polling a price at the interval you choose. In Activity Monitor it rounds to zero. The browser tab you keep open with the chart? That's another story.
Which versions of macOS?+
macOS 13 Ventura or later. Apple Silicon and Intel, one universal build.
How much does it cost?+
Nothing. It was going to be $9.99 - it's free. No account, no trial, no upsell inside. Download it and enjoy.