Comparison
Blinken vs IAXT
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.
IAXT
ListedIAXT is a macOS audit log for AI coding agents. See what Claude Code, Cursor, and Aider do on your Mac, reviewable after each session. Free, no telemetry.
| Blinken | IAXT | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 IAXT
IAXT is a macOS audit log for AI coding agents. See what Claude Code, Cursor, and Aider do on your Mac, reviewable after each session. Free, no telemetry. IAXT is a quiet menu-bar app that records what Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Codex, and Copilot actually do on your Mac: commands run, files changed, packages installed, git operations, launch agents. AI coding agents run commands and change files on your machine, with broad permissions and at high speed.
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