Blinko

Blinko is a note taking app built around quick capture and AI assisted writing, with a personal blog attached. Users jot down short thoughts called Blinks, ask AI to expand or polish the rough wording, promote the ideas worth keeping into full Notes, and publish selected notes to their own blog without running a separate site. It suits writers, developers and anyone who wants a private idea inbox that can grow into published writing. Features include nested tags, folders and full text search, conversational search that answers questions about what has been recorded, a random walk through old notes to resurface forgotten ideas, file organization and sharing, and a plugin marketplace with extras such as a focus timer. It comes in two editions: an open source version that users host themselves with their own AI providers, and Blinko Cloud, a managed service with no server to maintain. Pricing is published. The self hosted open source edition is free, with storage limited only by the user's infrastructure. Blinko Cloud Free costs $0 and includes 100 MB of storage, a personal blog and bring your own AI key support. Pro is $5.99 per month with 10 GB of storage, premium blog themes, a custom domain, removal of Blinko branding, the Blinko CLI, a developer API and secure sharing. Pro Plus is $10.99 per month with 25 GB of storage and all premium publishing features. The team says the cloud and open source editions share most of their product direction, with cloud revenue funding development and improvements flowing back to the self hosted version.