How to add HEX price to the MacBook Pro Touch Bar

3 min readJan 26, 2021

We HEXicans love our HEX.

We love it so much, we can’t help checking out our Staker app every five minutes to look at the price chart or how much our stakes are worth.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have the HEX price on the Touch Bar of your MacBook Pro? You know, that annoying piece of keyboard real estate you keep pressing by accident, deleting that article you just spent hours writing? (shoutout to Joe Hexotic)

Now there’s a way to put that Touch Bar to good use.

By displaying the HEX price!

Fortunately, the heavy lifting has already been done and it’s quite easy to spice up your Touch Bar with that sweet HEX crypto magic!

Steps

Download and install Better Touch Tool. The free trial lasts for 45 days, but the Standard License is only $8.50, which is a great deal for such a useful tool for the Mac.
Use the Crypto TouchBar App to create the toolbar
Choose your FIAT Currency (defaults to US dollar)
Under Add Other Coins, type HEX to add HEX into the Crypto Currencies list

5. Tick the checkbox next to HEX and select background color of the HEX price tab

6. Under Options, select the Refresh Interval (default is every 60 seconds) and set Number of decimals to 5 (we can change this after we get to 10,000x)

7. For Additional Indicators, you can choose:
Simple: Display an up or down arrow to indicate price movement
Literal values: Show market cap or range
Percentage values: Show percentage price movement

8. Click “direct import to BTT”, and we’re done!

Or are we?

The price is right, but where’s my HEX logo?

Everything should work as advertised, except for that question mark where the HEX logo should be.

Simple.

Download a transparent HEX logo from HEX.com and save it on your computer as a PNG image file
Open up the Better Touch Tool, go to Touch Bar Trigger Configuration > Common > Icon > From Image File > From Disk