Fintic alternative
Your ticker, always on screen. Not scrolling past.
Fintic’s bars crawl through markets, headlines and scores, so you wait for yours to come round. Deskcast holds the one you care about still, at twice the vertical resolution, with the day’s chart underneath.
Join the waitlistWhy Deskcast
- 2× the vertical resolution, on a finer 2 mm pitch
- Your ticker held still, never scrolled past
- The intraday chart, with pre-market and after-hours
- About the size of a hardcover book, not a 39 cm bar
Deskcast vs Fintic
| Deskcast | Fintic | |
|---|---|---|
| Display | 128 × 64 RGB LEDs, 2 mm pitch (Deskcast ahead) | 128 × 32 RGB LEDs, 3 mm pitch (desk size) |
| Your ticker | On screen all the time (Deskcast ahead) | Scrolls by in turn with everything else |
| Intraday chart | Yes, with pre-market and after-hours (Deskcast ahead) | Not its focus |
| Footprint | 256 × 128 mm (Deskcast ahead) | 390 × 110 mm |
| Subscription | None | None |
| Price | Not announced; waitlist gets a founding discount | $269 on sale ($320 list) for the desk size |
When Fintic might still suit you: If you want a newsroom crawl of many tickers, headlines and scores, Fintic’s long bar is built for that, and it’s on sale today.
Fintic details are from its public pages, checked October 2026, and may have changed.
- Can Deskcast show several tickers?
- One at a time, by design: the one you care about never scrolls away. Switch it from your phone whenever you like and the panel changes by itself.
- Is Deskcast for sale?
- Not yet. Join the waitlist to hear first; everyone on it gets a founding-member discount code when orders open.
Be first in line
Put the number you check most where you can see it.
Join the waitlist and you’ll hear the moment Deskcast is ready to order, before anyone else, with a founding-member discount code for your first unit.