Merkato is a graphical financial markets tracker designed for the GNOME desktop. It provides a convenient way to monitor stocks, market indices, currencies and cryptocurrencies without continually opening financial websites.
The application presents market information in a native GTK4 and libadwaita interface. Users can create watchlists, examine price movements and switch between different views to identify securities that are gaining or losing value.
Merkato retrieves market data from Yahoo Finance and refreshes quotations automatically. Its Rust-based implementation also provides sector-based categorisation, price alerts and a heatmap display. Although quotations are refreshed regularly, the underlying market data may be delayed depending on the exchange and provider.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Monitor stocks, market indices, currencies and cryptocurrencies.
- Retrieve quotations from Yahoo Finance.
- Automatically refresh market information every 60 seconds.
- Persistent watchlists that retain selected securities between sessions.
- List view displaying prices and market movements.
- Heatmap view highlighting positive and negative price changes.
- Automatic categorisation of stocks by industry sector.
- Configurable alerts for selected target prices.
- Desktop notifications when configured price conditions are met.
- Search for securities using their ticker symbols.
- Sort and organise tracked market instruments.
- GTK4 and libadwaita interface designed for GNOME.
- Multilingual interface with community translations.
- Local storage of application configuration and watchlists.
Website: github.com/sheep-farm/merkato
Support:
Developer: Flávio de Vasconcellos Corrêa
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Merkato is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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