The market, in your terminal.
alphai-tui is a free dashboard that runs where you already work. Live quotes and candlestick charts sit next to the alphai news feed, with the same 1 to 10 relevance scores, per-ticker sentiment and SEC Form 4 insider activity the API serves. Prices need no key at all; a free alphai key unlocks the rest. Built in Rust, MIT licensed.
Rust · MIT · macOS, Linux, Windows
Install
30 seconds to first quotebrew install makeev/tap/alphai-tui
alphai-tui AAPL MSFT NVDA BTC-USDThe first launch opens the settings screen: pick a price source and paste your alphai key, or leave it empty if you only want quotes and charts. The watchlist and options persist in a config file, so next time a bare alphai-tui is enough. Prebuilt binaries with checksums for every platform live on the releases page.
What's on screen
Five views · one keystroke apartEnriched articles for one ticker, the whole market or the 48-hour trending top 10. Each row carries a 1 to 10 relevance score, a category and a sentiment call; the article card unpacks the full AI analysis with price impact, trading value, context and a contrarian view.
Candlestick chart at half-block resolution with SMA 20/100 overlays, an RSI(14) panel and a previous-close reference line. Interval presets cycle on the fly, and history is prefetched so indicators draw from the first visible candle.
The insider trades chart in the terminal: every Form 4 event of the window as a triangle on a log dollar scale, 10b5-1 plan trades dimmed, weekly dollar bars underneath. A 12-month rollup and the most active insiders sit on top, and the filing stream below carries per-event value, stake impact and direct/indirect markers.
Watchlist with sparklines and the chart side by side, news underneath. Everything drives from the keyboard, settings live in the app, and the watchlist persists in a config file, so a bare alphai-tui is enough after the first run.
Add an AI analyst in the next pane.
alphai-tui is a single self-contained process, so tmux or any multiplexer turns it into a workspace: one instance per pane, each switched to its own view. Run an agent such as Claude Code alongside and connect it to the alphai MCP server, which serves the same news, sentiment and insider data as the dashboard. You watch the tape on one side while the agent digs through whatever the tape surfaces, and get a sourced brief without leaving the terminal.
Free tier, careful budget.
Quotes and charts, no key. Yahoo works out of the box; Finnhub and Alpaca plug in with their own free keys for realtime quotes and full history.
News, sentiment and insider, free key. The free alphai plan allows 20 requests a minute and 100 a day with no card. The app is careful with that budget: it fetches only what the visible view needs and caches each response for five minutes.
Same API underneath. Everything on screen comes from the public REST API, so what you build against the API matches what the dashboard shows.
Questions
FAQIs alphai-tui free?
Yes. The dashboard is open source under the MIT license, and the code lives on GitHub. Quotes and charts work with no account at all. The news, sentiment and insider views read the alphai API and need a free key, no card required.
Do I need an API key?
Not for prices and charts. A free alphai key unlocks the scored news feed, sentiment and SEC Form 4 insider activity. Paste it once in the settings screen (press s) and it persists in a local config file with owner-only permissions, or export ALPHAI_API_KEY in your shell.
What platforms does it run on?
macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux (x64 and arm64) and Windows. Install through Homebrew, apt on Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04 or newer, the AUR on Arch Linux, the shell installer, cargo install alphai-tui, or grab a prebuilt binary with checksums from the GitHub releases page.
Where does the data come from?
Prices come from Yahoo by default, with Finnhub and Alpaca as configurable alternatives. News, sentiment and insider data come from the alphai API: over 10,000 articles a day scored 1 to 10 with validated tickers, and SEC Form 4 filings grouped into one event per economic decision.
Put the tape in your terminal.
One install command, one optional free key, and the scored feed runs next to your code all day.