Blinky App Reviews

If you ever watched Lost, you probably remember the terminal in the hatch. If you long to type on something equally ancient, this is the closest youre going to get with modern equipment. When I was a kid, I used to hook my TI-99 up to the TV and type inline after line of game code (I think it was BASIC) that I copied from magazines, which was a weirdly enjoyable experience. Blinky evokes that same feeling. Modern wordpressors like Word are soulless. Blinky makes you feel closer to your words. You watch them materialize on the screen one by one, listen to the little typing sounds, and feel happy.

This is hands down the greatest app I’ve encountered in ten years. I dream of developing at this level of perfection. Customize color, size, cursor, vintage font, retro monitor theme, reflected image, frame, glass, curvature, border, transparency, overbright, glow, backlight, burn-in, retrace, scan-lines, hue shift, jitter, h-sync, static, flicker, rendering quality, lighting, reflection, and even sounds to create virtually any machine screen on the planet. Use your camera to generate real-time colored text art. It also behaves well when its windows get unfocused if you’re in another app. My favorite feature is the degauss. This superior work of artistry immediately transforms you into a creative writing genius and happens to come with all the modern word processing features you can type about. A+

Absolutely beautiful. Really evokes that retro nostagia in me. I don’t use Word much anymore, I write out most everything on here and if I must I’ll copy and paste at the end. 10/10 would recommend, along with their other equally fantastic app, Cathode!