About World Monitor

World Monitor is a free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) real-time global intelligence dashboard. It fuses the world’s raw signals — ships, aircraft, satellites, sirens, cables, markets and 468 news and OSINT feeds from 790 attributed providers — onto one live map with 59 layer types, and flags when they converge into something that matters. Over 2 million people in 190+ countries use it, with no account and no trial clock. Every figure is sourced and every method documented. By the time it’s news, you already knew.

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What it covers

Most intelligence tools show one slice of reality: a conflict map, a market terminal, a ship tracker, a weather feed. World Monitor puts the slices on one surface so they can explain each other. On the map itself: conflicts, military activity, live ships and aircraft, satellites, GPS jamming, protests, fires, severe weather, outages, cyber threats, nuclear sites, cables, pipelines and AI datacenters, as 59 toggleable layer types on a dual 3D-globe and WebGL engine.

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How it works

World Monitor has no newsroom and no human editors. It leans on method.

• Convergence over noise. Signals are cross-checked across independent sources before anything surfaces as an alert. A breaking banner has to clear fixed gates on severity, age and corroboration, so a single unverified report doesn’t become a headline.
• A tiered source hierarchy. Wire services and official channels rank above major broadcasters, which rank above specialist open-source outlets, with provenance kept visible. Every panel cites its sources and timestamps inline.
• Country dossiers. Click any country for its instability score and components, a cited AI brief, the active signals on the map and a 7-day timeline, with structural resilience ranked for 170 of 196 countries over 72 indicators.
• Forecasts with a record. Published AI forecasts carry a probability, confidence and horizon, and a public scorecard records how they resolved.
• AI on top, not instead. Briefs, risk scores and forecasts are generated from the underlying signals, not from a chatbot’s imagination.

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Six monitors, one engine

The same platform, tuned to a theme. Switch between them from the header bar. It runs wherever you work:

• Web at worldmonitor.app, and as an installable PWA with offline map tiles
• Desktop as a native app for Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux, with OS-keychain key storage and a local API sidecar
• Terminal as a full-screen terminal dashboard (TUI) with the same live map, news, markets, conflict, shipping and cyber feeds, mouse support and colour themes, no API key required
• Android TV for wall displays
• Self-hosted via Docker or Vercel, with local AI through Ollama

All of it is localized, with right-to-left layouts for Arabic and Persian.

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Built for agents

Everything on the map is also an API. Your code researches with live data instead of training-data memories.

• MCP server with the full live tool catalog, Streamable HTTP, OAuth or API key, JMESPath projection on every call
• REST API on one OpenAPI 3.1 spec, one key
• Official SDKs for Python, JavaScript, Ruby and Go, zero-dependency
• CLI that scripts any tool from a shell or pipeline
• Signed webhooks for chokepoint disruptions, country risk surges, breaking news, market moves and natural hazards
• Agent skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP client

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Free is the observatory. Pro is the operations room.

The free dashboard is a full product, not a trial: every map layer except Resilience, all six monitors, country briefs, chokepoints, cascade analysis, the breaking-alert pipeline and watchlists. World Monitor Pro, from $39.99 a month, adds the decision layer:

• WM Analyst, a cited AI analyst across live services
• Scenario Engine that runs hourly, and Route Explorer
• Cost-shock and supply-chain stress tests across chokepoints, cascades and vulnerability rankings
• Alert rules by country, event type, severity and chokepoint, delivered to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, email, push or signed webhook
• Personal AI digest, daily, twice-daily or weekly
• Intel memory with historical search and similar-event lookup
• Custom widget builder and the Resilience map layer
• MCP access for Claude, ChatGPT and other AI clients over OAuth

Pro Business adds a commercial licence and data export. API plans add REST and SDK keys, quota and webhooks, and API Business adds redistribution rights. Enterprise adds SSO, team workspaces, white-label panels and on-premises or air-gapped deployment. See pricing and the licence scope.

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Origin

World Monitor began in January 2026 as a weekend project. Elie Habib, co-founder and CEO of the music-streaming platform Anghami, built the first version in a matter of days to see whether a day’s worth of chaotic geopolitical news could be made legible on one map. He posted it once and moved on. It didn’t stay quiet. As global events escalated through 2026, the dashboard reached hundreds of thousands of users in its first week and has since grown past two million people who live in 190+ countries, with structural resilience ranked for 170 of 196 countries. Most of those users sit well outside the usual intelligence-tooling audience. It is now one of the most-starred open-source OSINT projects on GitHub ().

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Mission

Situational awareness of the world shouldn’t require a five-figure terminal. World Monitor’s goal is to make credible, real-time global intelligence, the kind normally reserved for governments, funds and newsrooms, accessible to anyone with a browser, and to any AI agent with a key.

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Who builds it

World Monitor is built by Elie Habib, co-founder and CEO of Anghami, the first Arab technology company to list on Nasdaq. The platform is open source under AGPL-3.0-only; see the License and Trademark Policy. The maintained repository is github.com/koala73/worldmonitor; other copies and similarly named products are not affiliated.

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In the press

• WIRED — How a music-streaming CEO built an open-source global threat map in his spare time
• The Atlantic — Doomscrolling Is Over: how World Monitor turns a browser into a situation room
• El País — El riesgo de seguir en directo el conflicto de Oriente Próximo en plataformas hechas con IA
• The Economic Times — God’s view: the rise of AI war dashboards
• Arabian Business — Anghami co-founder’s AI tool tracking global crises draws millions of users
• Entrepreneur Middle East — How Elie Habib built World Monitor to track global events in real time
• Silicon Canals — Anghami CEO’s side project now has 2 million users
• L’Orient Today — How the Anghami CEO’s side project became a go-to for geopolitics research

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Explore

• Dashboard — the live map
• Pro — the decision layer
• Documentation — API, MCP and platform guides
• Coverage catalog — every panel, layer and tool by name
• Sources — all 790 attributed providers
• GitHub — source and issues
• Blog — analysis and product updates

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Contact

General questions and support: support@worldmonitor.app. Enterprise and partnerships: enterprise@worldmonitor.app. See Support & Contact for all channels.