Blink Shell, Build & Code 4+

The Pro tool for developers

Blink Shell, Inc

    • 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 18.0.1

Version 18.0.1
- Fixes keyboard auto-repeat for accentuated characters.

https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/2023

Ratings and Reviews

4.3 out of 5
4 Ratings

4 Ratings

pål martin ,

The best way to ssh/mosh

I have switched to using an ipad instead of a regular laptop on the go because of Blink (and mosh+tmux) and Textastic+ShellFish. Blink is better than any mac terminal, and feel a lot more like a being on a linux computer. Colors, keys and everything works really good in all applications like emacs, vi, tmux and others when connecting to linux servers. Very highly reccomended!

the real myllarguten ,

I love this app!

This application is incredible. Use it to ssh into my raspberry pi, Mac (where I run code-server) and DO droplets. Works perfectly. The Visual Studio Code integration is super, and this app paired with Tailscale makes it possible to do all of my work on my iPad.

Anxolin ,

App is mostly, pity they have some big UX issues

I bought the app long ago, and they have a problem that for IOS, you can not read all the characters because the round corners of the screen are not visible. It would be as simple as allowing to add a margin, but it has been like that for years.

You cannot use it in landscape, which is sad for a terminal cause u need this extra space.

Additionally, they just focused in doing another version to try to charge you for a monthly fee. Pls fix the issues before trying to get more money

A bit disappointing

Developer Response ,

Hi Anxolin! We actually have had that feature for years, and Blink offers three modes for how you want to fit the screen in rounded corners. You can see them on Config > Appearance or by doing a three finger tap on the shell. The modes are: cover, fill and fit.

You can read more about it here: https://docs.blink.sh/basics/tips-and-tricks#blink-using-screen-corners Please contact us if you have issues setting them up.

Also, please note that as a previous user of the app you do not have to subscribe to the yearly version as everyone is grandfathered. We still appreciate those who value our work so far and decide to continue supporting us.

Thanks!

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