Comparison
Blinken vs Re
A factual side by side of two tools in Analytics & Privacy. Figures come from each product’s own site.
Blinken
ListedA macOS menu bar utility that resurrects the HDD activity LED of pre-2010 personal computers. Quietly alive in your menu bar. Free, local-only, MIT licensed.
Re
ListedRe:Likes is a passage-level reaction library built on Clean Selection, with persistent likes, dislikes, partial erasing, and aggregate heatmaps.
| Blinken | Re | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Analytics & Privacy | Analytics & Privacy |
| Pricing model | Open Source | Not disclosed |
| Starting price | Not disclosed | Not disclosed |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Platforms | Not disclosed | Not disclosed |
| Techavy score | Not rated yet | Not rated yet |
About Blinken
A macOS menu bar utility that resurrects the HDD activity LED of pre-2010 personal computers. Quietly alive in your menu bar. Free, local-only, MIT licensed. A small red lamp in your menu bar, brightening when your disk is working. Adaptive sampling means it's responsive when your disk is busy and quiet when your Mac is at rest. Warms toward orange when your Mac is leaning on the swap file. Open the dropdown for read & write totals since boot, RAM in use, swap on disk, and the kernel's pressure level.
About Re
Re:Likes is a passage-level reaction library built on Clean Selection, with persistent likes, dislikes, partial erasing, and aggregate heatmaps. The demo uses an airbrush selection motion, then leaves the applied reaction as a soft canvas cloud. Re:Likes lets affection and discomfort remain attached to the exact words that caused them. Children are taught to travel with pocketfuls of amber grain because the lantern moths will guide any gentle traveler home if they are fed at dusk.
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