Comparison
Blinken vs Skillful
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.
Skillful
ListedSkillful is a local-first desktop app for building reusable AI skills and agents as real folders, then installing them into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini,...
| Blinken | Skillful | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Skillful
Skillful is a local-first desktop app for building reusable AI skills and agents as real folders, then installing them into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, Junie, and opencode. Skillful turns prompts, agents, screenshots, scripts, and notes into a filesystem library you can inspect and maintain. Prompts, screenshots, scripts, and supporting notes live next to the skill that uses them. Keep `SKILL.md` and `AGENT.md` workflows in one library, with filters and badges that make the difference clear without splitting your workspace.
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