Keeping track of the market situation and potential investments are usually done via smartphones nowadays. Still, that’s not to say that other options are not also viable (tracking the market via web services or via desktop apps).
If you’re a Linux user, and you prefer not having to check your phone every minute in order to keep track of your investments, then you might want to consider Markets.
What is Markets?
In short, Markets is a free and open-source Linux app that helps you accurately and effortlessly track market movements from the desktop.
The first thing you need to know about Markets is that it uses Yahoo Finance to provide the required data about stocks, currencies, commodities, indexes, and cryptocurrencies.
Another great aspect is that it also works on Linux smartphones such as Librem5, or PinePhone.
Features at a glance
So, what can you expect? Well, the app allows you to create your own personal portfolio. You can track, monitor, and analyze trends, and it should help you make good inestment decisions. The app automatically detects your timezone and makes all the required changes accordingly.
The app is modern and surprisingly stylish, the GUI is minimalist, yet highly functional. You’re provided with a few configuration options as well: you can adjust the refresh rate to perfectly suit your needs, as well as enable or disable the Dark Mode.
You’re provided with the option of adding any symbol or currency, and removing them from your portfolio is just as easy as the app allows you to selectively delete stock monitors.
Verdict
The app can be installed via Flathub (or AUR PPA for Arch Linux users). Of course, there’s always the option to build it yourself from source (Markets GitHub repo).
All in all, Markets works nicely and looks surprisingly well on most Linux distributions. At the end of the day, it’s a dead-simple Linux app that allows you to track stocks, cryptocurrencies, and currencies on both your desktop device and smartphone.
The only real downside and, of course, this is quite subjective, is that it uses Yahoo Finance.
