Comparison

Knil vs Blip Stats

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Knil

This developer tool helps test Universal Links for iOS applications. It fetches and parses AASA files, lists all Universal Links, and allows for one-tap testing. It also provides links to other validation tools.

Highlights
  • Fetch and parse AASA file
  • List and test Universal Links
  • Customizable test links
  • Links to validation tools
  • Open source iOS project
Features
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Knil is a developer tool for Universal Link testing. - Open source iOS project written in Swift 5 - Fetch and parse apple-app-site-association(AASA) file - App Store links and metadata - List all Universal Links. One tap to test! - Customizable test links - Link to other validation tools - Free without ads - No third-party tracking or analytics See more on GitHub https://github.com/ethanhuang13/knil

About

Blip Stats

Monitor your Mac's system performance with this lightweight utility. It provides detailed insights into CPU, memory, network, disk, GPU, battery, and thermal data directly from your menu bar. Offers built-in speed tests and traceroute functionality.

Highlights
  • Real-time CPU, memory, and network monitoring
  • Detailed disk and GPU utilization
  • Battery health and thermal data
  • Top processes by CPU and memory usage
  • Built-in drive speed tests and traceroute
  • Shortcuts app integration for automation
Features
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Blip is a featherlight system monitor that lives in your menu bar. One click shows everything happening inside your Mac — CPU load, memory pressure, disk activity, network speeds, and more. No clutter, no subscriptions, no bloat. Why people love Blip: Blip makes everything your Mac is doing visible without getting in the way. It polls every two seconds, uses about 42 MB of memory, and weighs roughly 2 MB on disk. Most system monitors use 200+ MB and ship features you'll never touch. What you get: CPU — Total usage bar in your menu bar. Click for per-core utilization, user/system/idle split, load averages, and P-core and E-core counts. Memory — Usage percentage at a glance. Drill into total RAM, active/wired/compressed/app breakdown, swap, and memory pressure. Network — Live connectivity in the menu bar. Tap for up/download speeds, bandwidth since boot, interfaces with IPs, VPN detection (Tailscale, WireGuard), tap-to-reveal public IP, and a history chart. Disk — Every mounted volume with space used and free, real-time read/write speeds, data transferred since boot, and a live I/O history chart.* GPU — Apple Silicon GPU utilization, renderer name, core count, and a historical chart. Optional menu bar readout.* Battery — Charge, health, cycle count, temperature, time remaining, charging status, power source, and condition.* Fans & Thermals — RPM per fan with min/max ranges, plus CPU and GPU temperatures read straight from the SMC. Shows "fanless Mac" gracefully on MacBook Air.* Top Processes — Top 5 by CPU and memory, with app icons and delta-based measurements that match Activity Monitor.* System — Mac model, macOS version, uptime, thermal state, and Blip's own memory footprint so you can verify it stays tiny. Metrics marked * need hardware-level access. Install the free Blip Helper companion app to unlock them, at github.com/blaineam/blip. Test and automate: Speed tests built in — benchmark any mounted drive with uncached sequential write/read plus random-read IOPS, and measure network throughput against OpenSpeedTest's public server or your own. Run a live traceroute (MTR) with per-hop loss and latency, mapped hop by hop. Shortcuts support — Get System Metric exposes 37 live metrics as chainable numbers. Run speed tests, start or stop a traceroute, open the Traceroute Map, and read or change Blip's settings — from the Shortcuts app. Designed to stay out of your way: Two menu bar layouts, horizontal or stacked. Hover any row for a live sub-panel. Customizable colors: category, monochrome, or your own — plus label toggles, optional colorization at high usage, and launch at login. Built right: Written in Swift with strict concurrency and zero external dependencies. Apple Silicon native, notarized by Apple. Blip Bench: Measure what your machine can actually do. Blip Bench scores CPU (single and all cores), memory bandwidth and latency, GPU, and Neural Engine throughput in fixed reference units — one scale shared by every Mac, iPhone, and iPad running Blip. The full profile adds a sustained phase showing how much performance thermal limits take back, against live fan and temperature data. Now on iPhone and iPad: Blip Stats 2.0 is one free app across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The iOS app brings live device cards with drill-in details, Blip Bench, dual-curve speed tests with idle vs under-load latency and per-activity connection grades, ping and traceroute with an offline GeoIP hop map, disk speed tests, Home Screen widgets, Shortcuts, and one-file stats snapshots.

Screenshots

Knil4 screens
Blip Stats4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Blip Stats at every 3 weeks against Knil's every 4 months. Blip Stats also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Knil's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Blip Stats holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Knil has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Knil ships an update every 4 months, Blip Stats every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Knil versus Blip Stats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKnilBlip Stats
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElaborappBlaine Miller

Customer experience

Knil

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Blip Stats

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Knil

No in-app purchases

None

Blip Stats

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Knil free?
Knil is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blip Stats free?
Blip Stats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Knil or Blip Stats?
Blip Stats is rated higher. Knil averages 4.8 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Blip Stats averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Knil or Blip Stats have ads?
Neither Knil nor Blip Stats shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Knil or Blip Stats?
Knil ships an update every 4 months, and Blip Stats every 3 weeks. Most recently, Knil was updated on October 3, 2026 and Blip Stats on October 4, 2026.

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