Tickrly

A compact macOS stock-and-news ticker built with Tkinter. Tickrly is a lightweight desktop stock-and-news ticker for macOS. It displays a scrolling feed of stock symbols and short news headlines in a compact window. The app is implemented with Tkinter and uses yfinance for stock data and feedparser for news.

Key features

• Scrolling stock ticker and news ticker
• Simple in-app Config Editor (add / remove symbols)
• Per-user config stored at ~/Library/Application Support/Tickrly/config.json
• About and License viewers in the Config Editor
• Packaging support using PyInstaller + dmgbuild

Quick start (development)

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
.venv/bin/python ticker.py

Packaging (macOS)

• Build .app with PyInstaller (see Tickrly.spec) and create DMG with dmgbuild.

Example:

.venv/bin/python -m PyInstaller --clean --noconfirm Tickrly.spec
.venv/bin/python -m dmgbuild -s dmgbuild_settings.py "Tickrly" "dist/Tickrly.dmg"

• Code-sign and notarize the DMG for public distribution.

Config & license

• On first run the app copies bundled config.json (if present) to ~/Library/Application Support/Tickrly/config.json and uses that file thereafter.
• MIT License

Troubleshooting

• Run the packaged binary from dist/Tickrly.app/Contents/MacOS/ to see console output.