Blinken vs ScoutFox

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 living intelligence scout for investors and newsrooms who need to see the important change before it becomes obvious.

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 ScoutFox

A living intelligence scout for investors and newsrooms who need to see the important change before it becomes obvious. An animated fox made from evidence particles follows a signal trail and reforms when the investigation is complete. Tell ScoutFox what you are trying to notice before everyone else. When the threshold is met, you receive the conclusion, evidence, uncertainty, and next action. A qualified reason to meet, what the team has actually built, why the timing changed, and what could still disprove the case.