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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)).

<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/168240/39569578-7ce9f3b6-4e7a-11e8-82a9-8a18b91b1bd5.png" alt="cointop screenshot" width="880" />

## 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

<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/168240/39569570-75b1547c-4e7a-11e8-8eac-552abaa431f0.gif" alt="screencast" width="880" />