Blink Shell, Build & Code Erfahrungen und Bewertung

Endlich eine Escape-Taste und die Funktionstasten sind zurück!

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Excellent tool for me as a sysadmin. Works like you expect it. No issues. Works well on my ipad with an external keyboard.

The nag screen is pretty intrusive however. It can be super annoying when you are in the middle of getting some work done and it makes you lose focus.

I understand that a subscription model is attractive for the dev if they provide this software as a service. For me personally that just wants to ssh in to his remote machines this is a little bit too much when there are so many free alternatives out there. It is the best tool available imo. It is just the question if you really need it.

Blink with mosh is one of the indispensable apps I‘ve been using for many years.
I have no idea what the original price was, I just remember that it was not exactly cheap but I decided to support the project, so I didn‘t compile it myself but bought it.

It was worth every cent.

I‘m really curious what the new release brings, thank you!

This one has become my ONE and ONLY ssh app on Apple Devices!

For me, as an oldskool unix freak, I don‘t like all these menu driven apps, guess why :-P.

Here you have to setup your ssh_config, put in all your needs and start jumping / proxyjumping to all your boxes by typing a few letters. The hTerm implementation is the fastest terminal emulator on iPad I have seen so far.

You can dynamically resize your screen [Apple]+[+|-] choose wonderful fixed size fonts, which make it a pleasure to work with your system.

Even without iPadOS 16.2 Stage Manager external display support you can use your 27“ monitor in full resolution and switch by [Apple]+[O] between iPad and monitor.

I just wanna says, have a try on this masterpiece and support these guys to let blink.sh get better and better, they did and do a really outstanding job!

Thanks to the blink.sh guys, you have changed my life…

Intersting, one of the new features is a subscription option. Hummm, no thank you.

Subscription and subscription nagging, and devaluation of older version by labeling it with “Legacy/14” to persuade users move to newer subscription based version, no thanks!

Not a nice move to force users to pay 20€ again :-(

I was really disappointed to find out that my M1 processor-enabled iPad Pro does not really support any programming interfaces (and if so just Python [thanks to some other cool apps]). So, I went ahead and bought a Raspberry Pi 4 and needed a way to communicate with it from the iPad (and use VS Code for programming). Enter Blink! I could not be happier with it! The nominal fee for a yearly subscription is more than justified.

Für die Arbeit auf mobilen Endgeräten ein muss. Ich nutze BlinkShellBuildCode täglich wenn ich auf mein Tablet oder sogar mit meinem Smartphone unterwegs bin. BlinkShellBuildCode ist ein fester Bestandteil meiner Entwicklungsumgebung, wenn ich mit mobilen Endgeräten entwickle oder auf Server zugreifen muss.

Generally good, with three drawbacks:

- imported ssh keys don't have passphrases, so it's not possible to protect them in case your device got stolen and unlocked (I want to enter the passphrase at least when the first session starts)
- the version on my iphone ignores configured fonts and stays always with the same (even in the preview); on the ipad it's working
- from time to time, when a mosh session resumes, no redraw happens, so I'm forced to detach and reattach a running tmux session (not 100% sure if this is a problem of blink, but other clients I use dont show this effect)

But the current version crashes when trying to add a new window with two-finger-tap.

Bit of a shock to see the icon on my Blink greyed out, even though it worked fine, and now there’s a new app with a new model and we’re supposed to be grandfathered in, but no idea how.

Panic did this with their shell once, they just ditched it and brought a new one out, and ensured the old version just wouldn’t work on the new system. Honestly people, don’t bother with this stuff, just use a Mac.

Seems like you can only choose between two subscription models now with the free option being gone, unless I'm missing something this app is unusable without paying.

I bought the previous version and there was the promise for some kind of grandfathering but I cannot use the app anymore because they want you to subscribe. What a sh"tshow.

Last updates made blink more crash-prone than ever. No session without crashes (sometimes on ctrl-d) or nuisances (no text on typing).

Current state of software:
more expensive / less reliable / customer looking for alternatives

Former state:
rather reliable / worth every penny / satisfied customer

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App turned from 100% free into subscription only without free tear.
Not gonna pay for a ssh terminal. I don’t need all the other new stuff in this app.

I mean, really? For a shell? Bad move, will not even bother with reading what this subs offer. Long time user.

the app is not usable without subscription.

The new experimental feature to resolve IP addresses locally or remote broke the app. When I try to connect via MOSH, I get the error “Could not resolve address locally for host.” I never activated any experimental feature, it was activated without my consent! When I try to select “none” or “remote” in Advanced settings in the host alias, this is only saved for one alias. As soon as I set it for another alias, the setting vanishes for the first.

With no selection shown (no tick behind either none, local, or remote), the app defaults to the experimental method “local”, which causes a disconnected mosh-server process on the host, and the error message in the client. Even worse, most of the time when I now try to open the config menu and click on a host alias to at least temporarily disable the “feature”, the whole app immediately crashes to desktop. This completely broke my setup, I can no longer use MOSH at all. Why did I pay good money to get a MOSH app, when only SSH still works a few months later?

How can an experimental feature like this be rolled out without at least making sure it will not activate itself, be impossible to deactivate, break existing setups, and cause random crashes? This points to a highly irresponsible and unprofessional development process. Do not buy this app right now if you want to use it for MOSH, chances are high it will not work for you either!

Requires a subscription now with no options to continue use as it was. Pretty disappointing change. Deleting the app and looking for alternatives.

Not usable anymore without paying for a subscription

Already paid for the app and now the developer wants me to subscribe because I didn’t complete the migration from the „legacy“ version fast enough.

I don’t get how the app I had purchased before suddenly requires subscription.

For me no longer usable.

The app has some great approaches, but with the on screen keyboard difficult to use. Especially the VScode editor.

For a on screen keyboard only user like me, there are better SSH app end the usage of VScode through the browser is much fore comfortable.

Most annoying issue: the hassle with close tabs and windows.

Gutes Tool, damals für 20 € erhältlich. Mittlerweile fast 10 € pro Monat. Die Alte Version funktioniert nicht mehr richtig und wird auch nicht mehr zum Download angeboten. Danke für nichts!

Durch die Umstellung auf Abomodell zeigt der Entwickler das man ihm als Kunde nicht vertrauen kann. Gekaufte Software wird plötzlich wertlos.

Ich verzichte gerne auf Software wo die langfristigen Kosten nicht kalkulierbar sind. Was passiert wenn der Entwickler demnächst 100€ pro Monat verlangt, weil seine Kunden in seiner Software gefangen sind?