I Got Tired of 10 Browser Tabs for Crypto Trading, So I Built an Open-Source Desktop App
Every morning started the same way. CoinGecko in tab one. Etherscan gas tracker in tab two. CoinGlass for funding rates in tab three. Then five separate exchange tabs to check balances. Maybe Dexsc...

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Every morning started the same way. CoinGecko in tab one. Etherscan gas tracker in tab two. CoinGlass for funding rates in tab three. Then five separate exchange tabs to check balances. Maybe Dexscreener if I was feeling adventurous. By 9 AM, my browser was consuming 4 GB of RAM and I'd already lost track of which tab had what. I looked at paid alternatives. Coinigy runs $19/month. Altrady is $31/month. Both are cloud-based, both are closed-source, and both require you to hand over your API keys to someone else's server. For a tool that touches your exchange accounts, that felt... not great. So I did what any reasonable developer would do: I mass over-engineered my own solution instead. 🛠️ Meet CryptoRadar CryptoRadar is a free, open-source desktop application for Windows that consolidates the data I was manually checking across a dozen websites into a single window. It's built with Python and Qt6, runs entirely on your local machine, and doesn't phone home to anything except the exch