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title: "Intro"
date: 2020-01-01T00:00:00-00:00
draft: false
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[`cointop` ](https://github.com/cointop-sh/cointop ) is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking and monitoring cryptocurrency coin stats in real-time.
The interface is inspired by [`htop` ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htop ) and shortcut keys are inspired by [`vim` ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor )).
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## Features
- **Shortcut keys**: Vim-inspired shortcut keys, custom key bindings configuration
- **Colorschemes**: Custom colorscheme configuration, 256-color and 24-bit support
- **Favorites**: Save and view favorite coins
- **Portfolio**: Portfolio tracking of holdings, view profit & loss
- **Charts**: Charts for coin price history and global market graphs
- **Search**: Fuzzy searching for finding coins
- **Conversion**: Currency conversion
- **Price Alerts**: Price alerts with desktop notifications
- **Multiple APIs**: Supports multiple coin data APIs; CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap
- **Mouse**: Mouse support
- **Offline**: Offline cache
- **Fast**: Fast sort shortcuts, pagination, chart date range change, auto-refresh
- **Lightweight**: It's very lightweight; can be left running indefinitely
## In action
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