gloomberb
Finance terminal, in your terminal.
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Oct 2026
Gloom puts a Bloomberg-style finance terminal in your terminal window: quotes, charts, filings, options, news and portfolios, driven by typed codes like DES AAPL or GP NVDA. The app is MIT licensed and free: a desktop build for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows, a TUI, and a browser version.
Nothing to host. brew install --cask gloomberb on a Mac, or curl -fsSL gloom.sh/install | bash on Linux, and you're in. Broker plugins import positions from Interactive Brokers, Robinhood, Public and SimpleFIN, and brokers that support it can take orders from the app. The Windows installer isn't code-signed yet.
The data is the product. Quotes, news and AI come from Gloom Cloud, a hosted service that is not open source. Free gets quotes 15 minutes late and news 12 hours late. Pro is $70/month or $630/year for real-time US stocks and options. Team starts at $100/seat/month. Solo investors: free. Active traders: Pro. Small funds: Team, minus SSO.
The catch: open code, closed data. Without Gloom Cloud it's a nice shell. Usage counts and crash reports are on by default. And by its own docs it is not a Bloomberg replacement: no chat network, no fixed-income reference data, no direct exchange feeds.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
freemiumFree: The app (terminal UI, desktop app, browser client and plugin API) is MIT licensed. The free Gloom Cloud tier covers portfolios, charts, sync and chat, with rate limits, equity and options quotes delayed 15 minutes and news delayed 12 hours. Some panes (filings, insider transactions) need a free verified account.
Self-hosted: Nothing to run on a server. It's a local app installed via Homebrew, an install script, a Windows installer, or bun install -g @gloom-sh/terminal. The market data, news and AI behind it come from Gloom Cloud by default, which is hosted and closed source; plugins can add other data providers and broker connections (Interactive Brokers, Robinhood, Public, SimpleFIN).
Paid: Gloom Pro is $70/month, or $630/year billed annually (works out to $52.50/month, about 3 months free), with a 7-day free trial that requires a card. Pro adds real-time US stocks and options, a live news wire and X feed, research functions like DIAG, JOBS and CALLS, and 70 tools over MCP for AI agents. Students pay $20/month. Gloom Team starts at $100/seat/month with shared layouts, watchlists, notes and team chat. No SSO, SOC 2, audit log or on-prem yet.
Free is fine for investors who can live with 15-minute delayed quotes. Real-time data means Pro at $70/month or $630/year, still a tiny fraction of a Bloomberg seat.
What to do by team size
- Solo
- free for checking positions and research on delayed data; Pro at $70/month if you trade intraday
- Small team
- Pro per person at $70/month or $630/year for real-time quotes
- Medium team
- Team from $100/seat/month for shared layouts, watchlists and team chat
- Large team
- not ready yet: no SSO, SOC 2, audit log or on-prem option
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License: MIT License
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