TickerNotch vs BuildnScale

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TickerNotch compared with BuildnScale
Detail	TickerNotch	BuildnScale
What it does	Stock and crypto ticker, weather and news in your MacBook notch	Productivity tools for developers who ship
Stage	Startup	Not given
Founded	2026	Not given
Based in	GR	Not given
Pricing model	Not given	Free
Pricing	Free version forever with one ticker, one weather slot, one social counter, one news channel, one alert and one menu bar pin. Pro: $5 per month or $40 lifetime.	All tools and features are free forever with no credit card required.
Key features	Live tickers for stocks, crypto, indices and commodities with real-time crypto prices and 15-minute delayed stock prices Weather slots with multiple metrics like temperature, feels-like, rain chance and UV index for any city Live social follower and subscriber counts from YouTube, GitHub, Twitch, Bluesky and Mastodon System metrics showing CPU, memory, network download and upload speeds sampled locally RSS news marquee with breaking item flags and multi-channel support Menu bar pinning for individual tickers and metrics Candlestick charts with timeframes from 1 minute to 1 day and technical indicators Portfolio holdings tracking with dollar profit/loss instead of daily percentage Price and percentage move alerts with rolling window or daily open options Technical indicators including moving averages, Bollinger Bands, RSI, MACD, Supertrend and Volume Profile	Not given
What makes it different	No account required; all data and settings stay on your Mac with no sync or cloud Lives in menu bar with no Dock icon; works on MacBooks without notch via simulated notch mode Private by design with daily usage reporting optional and fully disableable	Data saves locally with privacy focus Open source and transparent All tools and features free forever Built-in sync and monitoring available with optional accounts
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	16 +1 (up) since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	0	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	8	0
Referring domains (Majestic)	53	0

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