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TickerNotch vs LeafRead

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TickerNotch compared with LeafRead
DetailTickerNotch logo TickerNotchLeafRead logo LeafRead
What it doesStock and crypto ticker, weather and news in your MacBook notch Not given
StageStartup MVP
Founded2026 Not given
Based inGR Not given
Pricing modelNot given Free
PricingFree 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. Free with daily listening allowance of 350,000 newly generated characters per account per UTC day, shared across website and app.
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
  • Save and organize articles, books and documents in a personal library
  • Highlight passages and add notes to saved content
  • Customizable reading interface with multiple themes and typography options
  • Text-to-speech for listening to content
  • Sync library and reading position across devices
  • Support for EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT and Markdown formats
  • Search highlights and notes by quotation, note or reading title
  • Offline reading and listening on iOS app
  • Collections and tags to organize readings by subject
  • Focus mode and reading ruler for guided reading
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
  • Free reading, library and text-to-speech with no premium tier
  • Preserves original text formatting and supports offline downloads on mobile
  • Remembers your reading position across devices automatically
  • Note-taking tied directly to passages in source material
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)16 +1 (up) since last checkNot checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)00
Citation Flow (Majestic)80
Referring domains (Majestic)530

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