Your AI usage.
At a glance.

No. BLINK is the device and nothing else: it shows what is left of the plan you already pay for. It does not include a plan, resell one, or add usage of its own. When your plan runs out, BLINK says so - it cannot give you more.

No - either one is enough.

It works, on macOS and on Windows. BLINK is built for developers working in a terminal, so Claude Desktop is not what it was made for - but it is read properly, not as an afterthought.

On Desktop alone the dials follow Desktop's own refresh - about every five minutes while you are using it, up to fifteen when it is idle. When a figure is more than ten minutes old the screen says so, so you are never left guessing whether what you are reading is current.

You get the five-hour countdown whenever Desktop is holding a reset time, and a weekly one once BLINK has worked out where your week turns over. Desktop keeps that reset only while a window is open and forgets it in between, so the countdown comes and goes; the dials carry on either way. What Desktop cannot give you is the row of session marks - it publishes how much you have used, not what any one session is doing, so that corner stays empty until Claude Code is installed alongside it.

Then this device is not for you - there would be nothing on the screen. The web chats do not publish what is left of your limits anywhere a device could read it. BLINK needs Claude Code, Codex or Claude Desktop installed on the machine it is plugged into.

There are two, and they answer different questions. Along the top left is one mark per open session: green while it is working, however long that takes; amber once it has finished and you have not read it; red when it wants you now - a turn that failed, or a prompt sitting open. Two terminals are two marks, so one being finished never hides another still going.

The single light at the top right is about the figures rather than the work: green while the reading is live, amber once it has gone old, red if something broke. A stale number is never left looking current.

Red is only ever an error Claude Code or Codex actually reported. BLINK never guesses from silence, so a long think never turns a mark red.

It sleeps too. About half a minute after the computer goes to sleep the eyes on the screen close and the device dozes, for as long as the computer is out - then they open and the dials come back. There is nothing to set up. Shut the computer down with the socket still powered and it sleeps through the night the same way.

Tap it while it is asleep and it shows your last figures for ten seconds, with a line saying your computer may be asleep, then goes back to dozing.

No. There is a radio in it and nothing uses it - no network setup, no setting that would start one. Everything arrives over the cable.

No. BLINK reads figures Claude Code already wrote to your disk. It never sees a credential, signs in to nothing, and sends nothing anywhere.

Yes. It follows whichever computer it is plugged into. Run the setup once on each.

A login item, so readings survive a restart, and one settings file. It lists both before touching either, and leaves your own config running alongside. uninstall reverses all of it, and you can unplug the device any time without uninstalling.