What is Blink?
A little robot that watches your running dev servers and iOS simulators, and restarts them without going back to the terminal.
Verified product facts
- Type
- developer utilityEditorially reviewed
- Platform
- macOS
- Pricing
- Open sourceDeveloper-stated
- Open source
- Yes
- Relationship to Nuanyue
- Third-party product — not published by NuanyueEditorially reviewed
- Licence
- MIT
- Current version
- 1.2Developer-stated
- Official website
- github.com/megootronic/Blink
Last updated . Facts marked developer-stated come from the developer and are not independently confirmed; editorially reviewed marks a Nuanyue judgement.
Key features
What Blink does at a glance.
Live server monitoring
Every dev server running on your machine, with port, framework and project name
Restart without leaving the menu bar
Stop and relaunch a dev server in one click, no terminal, no rebuild
Failures explained in place
When a restart doesn't come back, the row shows why, with the full output one click from your clipboard
Framework detection
Next.js, Vite, Nuxt, Remix, Astro, Django, Flask, Rails and more, each with its own colour
Simulator tracking
Booted simulators with device name, runtime, and the app running inside
Relaunch an app in the simulator
Terminate and launch without going back to Xcode
Overview
A little robot that watches your running dev servers and iOS simulators, and restarts them without going back to the terminal.
Blink runs on macOS and is listed on Nuanyue in the system tools category.
Links
Sources
Facts on this page are checked against the sources below. Last updated .
- Blink — official websiteGrade B
- Blink — source repositoryGrade D
