Blink Shell, Build & Code 4+
The Pro tool for developers
Blink Shell, Inc
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Trial required:
** Try Blink+Build one week for free, no sign up required. Renews monthly. **
** Or subscribe annually to Blink+: The Shell of choice for developers. **
Try the new Blink Build: on-demand cloud development environments, powered by containers, so you can Code, Compile and Deploy from anywhere.
Blink+ now also includes Blink Code, our Microsoft Visual Studio Code* integration, you can code on local or remote projects. Always with a premium Blink experience: Never disconnected thanks to Mosh, SSH featuring tunnels, keys and agent, in a blazing fast terminal.
What the Blink community is saying:
“The way to use VS Code on the iPad” - programminglife.io
“In some ways, I prefer my iPad / Blink / Digital Ocean setup to coding on my Mac“ - TheVerge
"I have tried a number of terminals on iOS and this is really The One." - Twit.tv
“Connections still come up when I get back to a client project after a weekend off.“ - The Sweet Setup
What our users love the most from Blink Shell:
- Mosh connections that even survive a device reboot.
- Most complete SSH implementation on iOS.
- Code command for VS Code integration.
- Blazingly fast terminal and SFTP transfers.
- Includes Pragmata Pro with ligatures.
Blink Code integrates with VS Code:
- Code on local projects, or seamlessly on remote machines.
- Fully-loaded code editor.
- A coding experience fitted to your device, that connects to VS Code for web, GitHub Codespaces, GitPod or your own VS Code server.
Blink Shell has a fully loaded SSH toolset:
- SSH with PKI support: DSA, RSA, ECDSA & ED25519 keys.
- Support for Secure Enclave Keys and Certificates.
- Port forwarding with local, remote & dynamic tunnel support.
- SOCKS5 proxy for a private VPN.
- Agent Forwarding.
- Complete SSH Config file support.
- ControlMaster and pooled connections.
- Files.app integration for SFTP remote hosts.
- SFTP with copy-on-change.
Blink has been the leading developer tool in the AppStore for +5 years, so there is a lot more:
- External Display support.
- Legendary Hardware Keyboard support, even remap shortcuts and keyboard codes.
- Local & iCloud Blink Shell folders for Files.app access across devices.
- Host sync over iCloud.
- Link-files from other applications and work with them in Blink.
- Cool themes and fonts, and install your own!
- Smart Keys on SW Keyboard to navigate with touch.
- FaceCam command to create tutorials and streams.
- Bell notifications.
- Supports multiple windows and multiple tabs.
- Network & UNIX CLI tools, check our docs for more information.
Blink is open source software. Participate in our community, and don’t forget to leave us your feedback and your feature(s) requests. Enjoy!
http://blink.sh
http://twitter.com/blinkshell
http://GitHub.com/blinksh
Terms of Use: https://blink.sh/blink-gpl
Privacy Policy: https://blink.sh/pp
* Blink Code is not affiliated nor endorsed by Microsoft.
What’s New
Version 17.3.0
Don't let the new features fool you. This update is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, where a lot of work happened behind the scenes. We left this release in the oven for a while to squash even the weirdest bugs and misbehaviors. But most important, we couldn't have pulled it off without our Discord and TestFlight communities, who were extremely patient to test again and again even the smallest changes and details. We want to extend special thanks to Bahamat, Dave, Filipe, James, Jochen, krathen, l2dy, Nahuel, Neal, Polo, rob, rrgeorge, shlevy, Tahpo2, tanguy, travelingflwr, and many many others!
**What's New:**
- **Custom Mosh+17.3.0:** Our patched Mosh release includes undercurl, strikethrough, and other server-side improvements, making your sessions even more powerful. Easily update the static Mosh on remote servers with the `install-static` flag.
- **Vim for Local Editing:** Now you can use Vim for quick local edits. And the community even built a package manager to supercharge it. Special thanks here to the previous work of Nicholas Holszchu on iOS System, as his work served as the backbone to make this work.
- **New Interactive Commands:** We've also added `less`, `bc`, and `ping6` commands to enhance your terminal capabilities.
- **Default Agent Configuration:** `ssh-add` now remembers your configuration between sessions, and you can configure keys and modes within Settings.
- **Mosh with ProxyJump:** Catching up with our previous mosh client, you can now connect with ProxyJump for more flexible networking options.
- **iPad Pro and Air Support:** Blink now fully supports the latest iPad Pro and iPad Air models.
- **Shell Improvements** Numerous fixes have been made to improve command execution and overall system integration, like telnet, random segmentation faults after running consecutive commands, Ctrl-D handling, commands that may hang the shell, etc...
- **Improved Arrow Key Functionality:** Arrows now work in both terminal and application modes, improving compatibility and user experience.
- **Crash Fixes and Stability Improvements:** This release has touched practically everything. Please check out the full notes on https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/1999 and do not hesitate to contact us with more questions or problems.
As we said in the beginning, this release has a lot more than meets the eye and we are sure you will notice. And please join us on Discord, GitHub or Reddit if you haven't done so yet!
Ratings and Reviews
iOS bug: swipe-up drags app up
The swipe up gesture is supposed to bring up commands in a shell’s history or scroll through the results of a less. When Blink gets launched, however, a swipe-up often works on the app’s window instead, dragging the entire app upwards.
Excellent
I’ve been using Blink Classic for many years, and it truly ticks all the boxes for me in terms of performance, stability, and features. I’ve tried other apps from the App Store, but they often have issues like freezing or messing up the terminal. The subscription for Blink+ looks reasonable given the quality of the software but would like to see a few more features for that price.
Forced upgrade after buying previous version
I downloaded the version I bought to be greeted with a prompt telling me to get the new version, that I would be able to use all the same features as before, the app I bought appears to be an advert now for this version as it’s no longer functioning.
So I download the new version, ready to use the same features as before but I’m greeted by a prompt that gives me two choices:
1 - Pay $10 a month for a digital ocean droplet I don’t want.
2 - Pay $20 a year to use the app I already bought.
I hit the restore purchase button thinking maybe this is how I get the original functionality back, it didn’t do anything though.
$20 a year isn’t going to break the bank or anything, but I’m not impressed I’m told I can keep using the features I had before when it clearly isn’t true.
App Privacy
The developer, Blink Shell, Inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Blink Shell, Inc
- Size
- 232 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.1 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.1 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2016-2024 Blink Shell Inc
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Blink Plus £17.99
- Blink+Build Basic £9.99
- Blink Shell Classic £0.00
- Build Basic - 50 credits/month £7.99
- Blink+ £19.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.