From using Blynk, I have realized that I don't need to rely on companies to sell me IoT devices to have a smart home. Instead, I can make every single device myself and have it all localized to the Blynk app.

With Blynk, it is extremely easy to get WiFi and bluetooth enabled development boards like the ESP-32 functioning at the same level as store-bought home automation smart devices. It is easy to make a customize able set of widgets that allow control through a smart phone, which saves makers from being forced to buy commercial IoT devices when you can build a much more customizable version for cheaper.

Some of the widgets are locked to a specific size ad cannot be resized. I would like to see more current features like Google Assistant or Siri integration.

I use Blynk to teach kids programming and using wifi and other protocols to integrate their projects with phones. I have been using it for my home weather station for two years without having to reprogramm or fix anything.

I like that it is simple and intuitive. The energy system is easy to get a grasp on. I have been a user and a customer for a few years now and have been in touch with their support and always had my issue resolved.

No flaws about it that I could see. All issues were resolved in a few days time.

As an apprentice I was able to convince my boss about the benefits and "open source" - architecture.

The setup on a Raspi was very well documented and the library briefly described the features that are possible.

Unfortunately, some of the app´s widgets were not always iOS compatible.

Blynk controls my proton particle interfaces to control several hardware in my house.

Blynk allowed me to create a system for a proton interface to control my house.

There are no “cons”, only some little bugs that have appear from time to time, like disconnections, inhabillity to share with others trough qr, and thins that, asmwith any app, solves either automatically or trough app updates.

I've been using Blynk for quite some times now, for controlling Things at home: rolling gate, lights, pump, etc. It never fail me. Even I've been connect it to Google Assistance through IFTTT and now my son can turn on the light by asking Googe Assistance to turn on for him, previously he has to ask us to help, because the switch is too high for him.

It's free download and still free if using for small projects. But I don't mind paying for tokens for bigger project, since it's very useful.

If we have several projects, some times it may turns to selecting project's mode. It would be a bit difficult, let's say when I need to open my gate while driving.

This app was absolutely the easiest IoT setup I've ever been through. I've used it multiple times with my esp8266's to setup up rbg controllable lights that I can share with friends. Their arduino library couldn't be simpler to implement and comes with great documentation and a multitude of examples for each type of device. All I needed was an autogenerated key string at the top of my code to connect it to the prebuilt and maintained backend. Then it was as simple as adding their rgb widget and pointing it at the pins I set. I loved that I could share my project with my family so they could control the lights with the same setup on their phones. No UI work necessary on my part and a setup up of 5 min means this is a HUGE win.

I have very little to say in cons since they really met my needs quickly as a developer who works fast on his side projects and hobbies.

Overall, my experience was worth it, considering it a free platform on my phone. Anyone interested can build his own home automation project with it. This platform even doesn't require any expert to handle it, anyone who can operate a smart phone, can operate this product also. I would really like to suggest this app to any friend or junior student of mine who is interested in IoT.

Being a student of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, I was overwhelmed by this Blynk platform when i used it to complete an IoT based term project. It is absolutely user friendly. Even those who have not worked with IoT yet, can find this product handy. this app helped me connect my home appliances together and enabled me to control them with google assistant, which is a totally different platform. Integration of other hardware and software platform e.g. IFTTT is quite convenient than any other product. In this developing sense of IoT nowadays, its demand is going to grow for sure. Hence this app can surely help people to implement their dream projects with both personal and business purposes.

The problem that i faced using this software was, it may give a person other than me the access to my project without my consent. Though good part is , it can integrate voice controlled based IoT models to ensure user security and privacy . I found some of the widgets locked, but those were of no use to me. other than those, i did not had to face any other inconvenience regarding this app.

Great! I use it both for quick any easy prototyping, as well as for my final products for myself.

The obvious part is, that it is astonishingly easy to connect the app with a new device and set up a new user interface. But what really surprised me is how easy it is to integrate your own code into the Blynk firmware. Furthermore the reaction time of the interactions is amazingly quick.

Mostly minor things that are fixable with workarounds: - the way how strictly the interfaced for different devices are separated onto different screens. - that always an Internet Connection is required to communicate with the devices (I haven't tried installing a local Blynk server, but I think that would fix it.)

I did several projects with blynk (mostly using Arduinos and ESPs) and I am very happy with it. One is actually a quite big project mixing 3 arduinos, an ESP and a nextion display with blynk as a remote action and controler, it works pretty well. The blynk.communuity site is very usefulll to learn how to do things and the docs are very usefull too, lots of good examples here that really helps. With all this I've always been able to figure out a problem without having to request help. And this proove the quality of the product itself but also the quality of the information you can get your hand on.

Very easy to use. Very versatile. nearly all what is needed is there.

The lack of possibility to generate a app that can be downloaded. except for enterprise users, there is no way to customize apps for individual users. Even if there is two or more projects there is no way to distinct them on the mobile... Other point is the miss of analytical app on the server side when running personal server it could be usefull to have some kind of tool to anayse the datas collected in the database. Of course we can use our own, but something out of the box could be usefull.

My employer contracted with Blynk to build some custom functionality for monitoring environmental parameters. We had a great experience, they designed several new UI elements to solve our needs, they've always been extremely easy to deal with and responsive to my questions. I would recommend them to anyone looking to solve a unique problem with IoT!

I've used Blynk for both personal and business use. I've used it for several small IoT projects in my house (monitoring pets, lights, temp, etc), and my employer also contracted with Blynk to perform some custom functions for an application we needed. They excel at customer service and I would recommend them for either small or large projects.

There are some features I'd like them to include, like a web dashboard. That said, this isn't really a criticism of their current offering, it's more of a feature request. I have no negatives to comment on the features they do offer, it has worked surprisingly well for me in many different applications.

Very good service to get a mobile app up and running quickly and interfaces well with blynk specific firmware IoT devices. Does however require external services such as Node-Red to perform more complex operations or as a gateway to non blynk firmware or communications such as MQTT

Very cost effective

Mainly centered around multiple standalone devices and doesn’t handle cross device well

I made a lot of different projects with this platform, with Arduino Uno + Eth shield, esp8266, esp32 and MKR1000 all developed with the help of the FAQ an some online search... And i am not a pro user!

It's very easy to deploy also for not professional users, the FAQ section is perfect lot of examples that helps a lot. Also the free version is enough to make extended projects

Probably the lack of a web page but as far as i know it is being developed..

Very easy to use and install. I'm using blink over 2 years now and it's working like a charm.

I like that I don't need to write my own app for my phone. I'm using the blynk app which is constantly upgraded with new widgets and functionality.

Nothing special. A the beginning the blynk app had some is lack of functionality but this i now resolved.

Been using blynk for years. Great support on the IoT platforms I use, so far!

-Easy to build an interface

-interface design is super rigid.

For Blynk, I saw the development throughout the entire UI. I have always been a Blynk user and have recommended Blynk to everyone who works on projects or innovations related to IoT for both younger generations. Teachers and interested people Today I have my own Blynk server and always use it. I like and love Blynk because it makes me fun, challenging and more interested in the world of IoT. Blynk is a miracle of the world. I love every development team and thank you for creating Blynk. Thank you.

What I like for this software is that it is easy to use, easy to use, easy to access and learn. Is a software that covers the user from the point of reaching and controlling your various IoT devices. In my school, I use Blynk to teach my interested children. Including the use of Blynk software to create projects and innovations in order to expand education and apply in the competition until receiving a lot of praise and awards so that many people are interested in Blynk. Blynk is The ultimate software for IoT, which is considered the miracle of the IoT world.

My least favorite thing is the energy system. I need to install the Blynk server myself. The installation process is quite complicated for the Linux operating system. I want the team to develop the server setup to be easy to install and install in every operating system. And want to improve Administration UI for easier server management In addition to this, I think that's great.

I've used Blynk as my home automation control system, in association with Node-Red. Al of my smart home devices are controlled via the Blynk app, and it's proven 100% reliable.

It's simple and easy to create your own flexible app layouts in both iOS and Android and get them working with your hardware in just a few minutes.

The iOS has a few missing features (mostly due to restrictions imposed by Apple), but its still extremely usable.

I am very happy with Blynk and I hope more futures will be added in days to come

Blynk has been a complete solution package,I used it in real world environment to manage remote automation of a huge agricultural farm, to my surprisem the experience has been awesome and It has been doing its job for the past 1 year without any downtime. Interfacing with hardwares has been easy. The long list of tutorial topics and and blynk community makes it easy for any developer

As this is a template based system, the look and feel always the same, maybe allowing user to use own design of buttons and interface would make it more awesome

Blynk can be used to develop IoT devices. I have been using this software for a number of projects including home automation and automatic garden watering systems, and it has been really great so far. Blynk offers almost everything needed in developing IoT devices.

Blynk allows users to connect various devices to the cloud and develop applications that can be used to monitor and control these devices. It can be used to develop prototypes, test them and even launch them commercially. If you want to develop Iot Devices, this is a must have solution.

It was difficult to find Blynk at first, when looking for a software that offers the features that it does. Maybe they should work a bit more on discoverability and advertising. In addition, I have experienced some difficulties when configuring the firewalls for IoT communication. If they manage to grow their community more, there will be enough tutorials and help, which is why they should work on being easily discovered.

Blynk has eliminated the need for us to code mobile apps completely and provided a reliable communications infrastructure that has saved a great deal of time and effort. We can focus more on the core product and worry less about the 'how to communicate'. This is definitely the product to reduce the time to a completed IOT project.

Blynk has been an absolutely gold solution to our need for a quick and easy way to develop and deploy varies unique IOT solutions. Blynk requires an incredibly low effort to setup sophisticated communications on a wide variety of hardware platforms and mobile devices. With it's free tier level also allowing great scope for demonstration and small projects. There is also the option of hosting your own Blynk server should you have special security or other requirements making it very flexible. Blynk has a large community of users that often contribute to an ever expanding feature set making the Blynk service quiet contemporary and dynamic.

The mobile user interface is a little restrictive at the moment. While you can achieve everything functionally needed the look and feel is currently a bit simple. Improvements are slowly being made.

I created an amazing remote start for my car using this. The app and the software to run all of the automation was so easy to use. It was incredible to be able to create the front end to my project on a day.

Drag and drop app makes it incredibly easy to creatrean intuitive gui that would take weeks or months otherwise. The amount of inputs and outputs available are great and don't leave anything to be desired.

I don't know why they decided to use js and not python. I had to go find a port to use it. I the world of raspberry pi python is king and an official python api would be amazing.

It does what it said, easy to use if You got some programming background its helpful

This application has most of features needed for Internet of things application in Your environment.

I have no remarks regarding cons of application, except - sometimes I have trouble connecting app to network. Fortunately is not that often

I consider myself totally self educated in the matters of IoT. Yet i have many modules around my house (and my yard) that are working incredible well for more than a year now.

What i like most? There are many things, it's hard to establish a first. Let me try, but not necessary in this order: the amazing number of hardware supported, the possibility to run your own server, the help of community and the incredible fast support from developers; ease of use and superfast start up and running.

THe lack of a "tablet" mode and a web dashboard. This is a temporary lack, as i understand these 2 are comming! Yeey!!!

From my first time using Blynk, I went straight to work building my App for use with an Arduino and guess what...? It worked the first time. Hardware/software projects are difficult to begin with. Blynk has alleviated a lot of this for the initial attempt of a new project.

Blynk is the first "App builder" I've used which has made it extremely quick & effortlessly to build an App for connecting to an Arduino or Particle IoT Board. Part of the challenge of designing for The Internet of Things, is proving to a client that what they're looking for is possible. Blynk makes is easy to create a proof-of-concept which the client can easily try out.

There are some limitations to Blynk (as with other App Builder solutions), and that's where the native SDK's come in for building real, enterprise Apps. Though this is a drawback, the usefulness far outweighs the cons.

Before using blynk app, i can not display data and control motor form smart phone, and all most my project only local control. When using blynk, i can display data and monitor project through internet. I alway recommend my client using blynk when they need control something which using smart phone.

1 - all of source is open and document easy for reading, include newbie 2 - Fast forum support, i learned a lot of iot knowledge in blynk forum.

- The color of GUI application on iphone very simple. - Free account only get 2000 energy, 3000 energy for free account will suitable with small project.

I am an experimental IoT farmer and I was looking for an easy to use mobile app on my iPhone to interface with monitoring and control capability for my IoT devices. Blynk just gave me up and running with great looking GUI in a very short period of time, just like a Blink without having to write any code for my iPhone.

Blynk is very easy to use tool to develop an IoT app/interface on mobile phone with many hardware and IoT modules. The GUI is very attractive and it allows you to set up your own server. Great value for the money.

There is still limitation on the available features, but the community is great in helping the group to continuously adding more features and functionalities.

Currently I'm not doing business related software with Blynk. However, easy 'surfing' with many different kind of projects may lead to an application that is suitable for business use.

Blynk has offered easily adaptable and working solution for every iOT project we wanted to do. There has been many very different kind of projects done in our iOT experiment group. Application examples are Home Automation, Robot Control, Voice control, Model Train Control, Music Players control and many more. Blynk has offered a nice UI solution for every project we have done.

The amazing Blynk Forum is the best software related forum I have been visiting. There is an answer for every question and even for questions that are not Blynk related. People are asking for example help for how to write programs for Arduino etc. That means there is too much 'garbage' in Blynk Forum website.

Super simple to use and supports all the common microcontroller platforms. I like the wide range of different elements you can add, especially GPS triggers and the SuperChart are great. I use it in my air quality monitor, smart lighting system, garage door opener, diy thermostat and every time I need to change values on an esp on the fly. The pricing is fair imo, since you can always delete unused elements to get your energy refunded.

Super simple to use and very well documented

Although it's a cute stylistic choice, I'd like to have a simple color wheel instead of the rgzbra , and an option to fine adjust slider values

I appreciate the simplicity of creating a small project and then having an app as a controller for any home automation project. It's one of the few apps where I would actually pay money for.

The software is super easy to use. It's compatible with Arduino, raspberry pi, and tons of other cheap micro-controllers that make home automation a breeze. Very little coding is required, and you can get a system up and running in no time. The community is great and very helpful with troubleshooting and they really care about your opinions and suggestions. Highly recommend to anyone, beginners or experts!

There was a little bit of a learning curve with specific widgets that may not seem straight forward, but the examples online are very helpful.

Using Blynk you can automate, schedule, control and monitor both analog and digital devices across the world either from a web interface (Blynk cloud server) or from your local server. With Blynk your IoT projects and solutions are only limited by your imagination.You will get to love the product!

Blynk can either be run on a standalone Server or on the Blynk Web server.

* Pricing is a little high in my opinion, especially in countries where the dollar exchange rate is poor ! Many IoT users will consider pricing over product.

Great for creating quick and simple IoT dashboards but also has features for those more complex projects.

Very simple to get up and running, easy drag and drop interface. The developers have done a great job introducing new widgets which enhance the functionality and show that they listen to feedback.

Some minor things - projects are ordered by the creation data. When you have a large number of projects they can’t be re-ordered so scrolling through them is a pain. If you need high resolution long term history of readings you’ll need a local server rather than using the Blynk cloud service.

This is the best platform to expose your home IoT to the external world.

Started IoT with Raspberry PI and Arduino Uno. Blynk changed the whole game of the project. Blynk Sketch (example) provides 80% of the code what you need to connect your device to the cloud. It got all the step by step process. Start the project from mobile, get the token, use the sketch to get the connection code, use the Arduino IDE to have the code, get the token and password of the WIFI, write the PIN logic , compile and deploy. Once these are done, you can control the devices from anywhere in the world.

Limited project and limited Widget with out money should be little more. After all, all the projects are not sold.

For me Blynk is the first choice for the central software of an IoT idea. And the most important: it's fun!

Blynk is the ideal software solution to connect all imaginable ideas around IoT hardware and make them accessible via Android and iOS Apps. Where Blynk really shines is creating complex user interfaces for monitoring and control. What takes hours in other systems can be done in a few minutes in Blynk.

The documentation could be more detailed. Many good tips and examples can only be found in the Community Forum, which is well maintained by the developers.

Blynk saved my pet! I'm monitoring the temperature of my terrarium (turtle) and few times something gone wrong with the heater. With Blynk I was warned immediately, give me the time to replace the heater before the temperature drops seriously (I was in winter), risking losing my turtle.

Easy integration with a variety of IoT devices and sensors, and great platform for prototyping freely with a open source server you can replicate on your house. And the community is great and very helpful, you can find many projects already made, easily adaptable to your needs.

Some widgets cannot be deleted without lose credits.

Having only one weather station in the nearby city (12km) the data wasn't reliable enough for me and my business. My job consists of being on the sea a lot and having consistent, reliable, real time (15 min increment) measurements provides me with a piece of mind for the upcoming weather at a quick glance on my mobile phone. It can also plot a really nice graph which can also be exported.

Very beginner friendly and straight forward. Took no time at all to set up, coding the sensor output takes longer! It has been my first IoT project and I loved it, does whatever I need and more. So easy even children can use Blynk.

No complaints, feature rich, reliable. The only con is that I didn't think of this idea earlier!

Everyone can use it for free!!!

There are things to work on, but you can do everything !

I was looking for a quick and simple way to create APPs and tie them into my IoT devices for around the home. There are lots of solutions that can do the basics - push a button and unlock a door - or send me the temperature. However none of them made a classy looking and fairly complex interface possible without a tremendous amount of time, effort and coding.

It is a easy to use system to connect IoT devices to an APP for status and control.

This is actually a challenging question. Anything I thought was a negative has turned out to be my lack of understanding - or a limit of iOS :-)

1. I utilizes Blynk for teaching students Embedded Systems & Internet of Things Development because it allows for Rapid Development.

1. It allows easy interfacing options for tons of hardware devices. 2. The software is feature rich with the availability of tons of widgets.

1. I believe that the cost of custom app development can be reduced specially for the individual needs. 2. The team can think from an education perspective so as to bring Blynk easily in IoT training.

I have a small farm about 20km from home, without Blynk platform I would need to go every day to farm to make some tasks ( like pumping fresh water, opening some gates etc.), now with Blynk and some IP cameras it is possible to go only on weekends or at least not every day.

I like the Blynk platforme the most because there are no limits of boards you can use in your projects, like on some other platforms, and a good description of function on web page. I also like that ESP2688 is supported and now I have made 10 IOT projects and they are all running from one to two years without any issues.

For me it would be helpful if Blynk platform would have a simpler function for delay function like the one used in Arduino.

The overall experience is great - I hope the community and the ecosystem in the platform will be growing. Our BigClown customers have been using it for their maker projects, but it is also used in the educational sector.

I absolutely love the simplicity and the pricing model. That's the reason why we have integrated Blynk as a #1 integration for makers to our BigClown IoT Digital Maker Kit platform. You can easily connect your hardware with your mobile app dashboard within minutes and without writing a single line of code. We find the Blynk cloud service very stable. The great part is, you can not only display sensor values (and plot time series graphs from them), but control your appliances as well.

I believe the app UI design for such a great tool deserves to be a bit better. We connect Blynk through a Node-RED plugin. However, a more CLI approach (and transparent bridge to MQTT) would be nice.

I like the plenty examples you get from internet, also, the many plugins that are available are awesome. I use it for home purposes on my DIY hobby, but I don't see any problem for a productive use. It can be very reliable if you do it correctly.

Blynk is a nice platform to join many pieces of software and hardware into a simple interface. Your imagination is the limit (it can be above the sky). As a DIY enthusiast, I loved Blynk! You can connect your Arduino, Raspberry and much other development boards to an Android application, you can use Python, C, or anything to create an interface, its flexible! I made my home aquarium connected to my phone, computer and even my car, also, some of my home lights are controlled by the same network, so I can control them from anywhere in the world. Oh, the Christmas lights are there too. Merry Christmas!

Nothing yet. Maybe at the beginning (I started using this at least 3 years ago) the documentation was hard to understand and the examples didn't help. Maybe that was fault of my learning curve, not the platform itself. But today is really easy to use and there are many plugins to it. So that is not really a con.

At first I tried using Blynk because I wanted to display the sensor data obtained by ESP8266 on my smartphone. I learned about Virtual IO by using it. Because this was very convenient, it was adopted as the development tool of our company application.

It is very convenient to be able to make many virtual IOs.Even if there is no physical GPIO, more IO can be controlled if virtual IO is used for control such as IO expander.

This is a function called virtual IO.We were also able to create our own application faster.

Developing for IoT devices / applications is made easy with Blynk, thanks to its libraries, widgets, server, and the app itself.

My first contact with Blynk was when I learned to program Arduino devices. It allows you to control hardware chips with ease. You can also gather and show data obtained from sensors for further analysis. I liked from Blynk that you can use the widgets they provide or program at your own needs. Also the libraries serve for many purposes.

Depending on your computer and operating system, it may be difficult to setup Blynk so that it can correctly connect with your IoT device. But this is a one-time setup, so once you achieve it there's no need to repeat the process.

I started business with Blynk about 7 months, and actually I keep sending issues of my projects (Device Tiles), time not considered in my initial investmen plan, I have paid all the months without can sell products freely to my customers becauseof these issues.

Easy to implement and the use of Blank.Faces to continuously make custom project for customer, even with my app published.

The development is not finished yet, the Blynk support team takes 7 months working with issues appearing rarely or not reproducibles. I don't like that they makes me reproduce each issue, taking a lot of my time because they don't have task organized to test every issue on iOS and Android. Neither I don't like thath the system cannot share devices to other users or comunicate between devices.

I found the creation of mobile applications on Blynk to be straight forward and really easy to setup. What Blynk lacks in app skin/background customisability it more than makes up for in functionality. I would definitely use this app for future IoT projects

I like the way Blynk has simplified and speeded up the process of creating functional mobile applications through the use of their drag and drop building style. I was able to create multiple fully functional apps using their prebuilt widgets, requiring very little programming (on the hardware side only), in a matter of 20 minutes on average. I was able to easily pair these apps with projects i created using the Arduino uno and Particle Photon microcontroller platforms which is one of the many devices supported by the Blynk platform. I found the online reference documentation made avaiable by Blynk to be very helpful. However there were a few instances where i required clearity or had some difficulty figuring out how to use certain widgets in more complex use-cases, such as the use of a time stamping feature using the RTC widget, and found their online community to be friendly and helpful.

Although Blynk's widgets are customizable in terms of size and colour, but the widget icons cannot be changed. Also the application background is not customizable aside from selecting it to be either white or black. I also really dislike the fact that, although Blynk supports the use of a bluetooth communication between the app you create and your project, it does not allow you to access the app with your mobile device if your mobile device does not have an internet connection.

Use as main app for my IoT devices. It was really the simplest to integrate and put my designs to run quickly with stability.

Very simple to perform integrations, stable and simple to use

Expand chart options and Multi languages

1- Easy to use and setup.

1-helpful forum for Blynk users with a lot of experience and learning for beginners.

I have to make app based home automation solution and i don't know app development so using Blynk my problem resolved

É open source

Blynk server is sometimes so busy so we don't get notifications for hours which we set in our project.

Possible build an intuitive Blynk GUI for advanced smart house technology from HDL. Easy to set up ESP32/ESP8266 using Arduino IDE. My family loves to use Blynk from everything to control the garage door, lighting, heating, ventillation, stereo and the heat pump.

Would like to have more options in changing properties of the widgets, such as size and position. What about putting the widgets on a background picture of room. Would also like more Tabs.

I am using it at home only but it has a huge potential to use in businesses.

It is very easy to connect with Internet so even a person without any technical knowledge can do wonder with this software. Library comes with lot of examples and the software is very cheap and easy to use. Even student from Arts stream can use this.moreover you have a forum to discuss issues and achievements.

This software has its limitation that it can not be used on Windows platform.

I have a fully working greenhouse controller that have been fully running for more than 6 months. It was easy to create, using Blynk, and has been stable from day one. I have also made RGB lights for a christmas tree. This was also made a lot easier to do, using Blynk. And I enjoy the possibility to control it from an App.

Easy of use. Great looking, user centric UI design. No bugs/breakdowns encountered after years of use.

There is no option for developers who only use the app for private use, to release it as a real app. The price for this scenario is way too high. The widgets for the home screen are not very well done.

In my business, we use Blynk for automation control, industrial telematics, and reporting. We have hardware that is accessed by many users at once and we need to handle this control in real time and a user-friendly manner with no dead-locking conflicts. The Blynk platform and app made possible to have a custom made, industrial-grade solution for dirt- cheap hardware at a minute fraction of the cost.

With Blynk you can create an app in minutes. You have direct access to the hardware i/o and can easily incorporate data manipulation like statistics along with graphs, alerts, social networks, hardware, and process control, triggering and more. The apps can be developed further even when the hardware is already gone live. The apps can be shared and distributed via the Blynk app or standalone apps. No special platform or downloads needed. No ads whatsoever! Examples provided for everything.

It was a bit steep to catch the idea on the start but the tutorials were there to help. The videos should be promoted more for the first contact to show how simple it is to get along with Blynk.

We design customized solutions integrating hardware and programming it but we had the gap when we wanted to give our products the IoT benefits . Blynk help us with this, making easier and faster to go from your first prototype to the final product.

It has a very simple interface that provides you all the necessary tools to deploy your IoT solutions very quick. The client service is very good and they will give you a solution if you have a problem and finally, they are compatible with open source platforms (arduino ide based) making easier to deploy your own customized solution or product

we havent found cons of blynk at this point .when we have had problems with the app or program they have fixed it in a couple of days.

It's so extremely fast to create a nice mobile app from Arduino H/W data. It can not be easier to develop IoT solutions including great looking user interface. The concept of buying electrical energy for more sophisticated apps has very high value for money. For a small number of bucks you get enough "energy" to build great apps. The tutorial videos are also extremely helpful and fun to watch.

The documentation for the local server could be a bit better.

Im very happy with it, it saves me alot of time and effort to integrate multiple projects into app which i can control and monitor.

It is easy to use and reliable. I have been using it for 3 year in automating my house and i love how easy it is to work with it. The architecture of the app is well thought out.

Id like some tabs to switch between controlling modules, but what they have is good.

Our company would never have reached our deadlines without Blynk. Blynk saved us from hiring a development team, reduced our costs and let us focus on product development.

Easy to get started. You can take your business from a prototype stage to production in a matter of weeks. No server downtime.

The architecture is based on triggering actions from hardware, which often requires you to update the firmware to change functionality in the app.

My experience with Blynk so far has been limited to prototyping, but it has been positive. There are a few things that I wanted to do that I was unable to accomplish with Blynk, but I was willing to live without those for the benefit of not needing to write my mobile application from scratch. I would not take Blynk into production though, primarily due to the security concerns.

Blynk's strengths are its relative ease of use and its wide support for IOT platforms. In addition, Blynk solves the problem of needing to develop a mobile application for your IOT solution, which is great for prototyping (and even moving beyond prototyping).

In this case, Blynk's strengths tie into its weaknesses. It is easy to use, but difficult to accomplish more specialized tasks. It supports many platforms, requiring that it cover the least common denominator.

I love to experiment with IoT and keep adding sensor and actions all over my world.

The GUI is extremely easy to use but could benefit from a little more optional visual customization. That way my wife would love it even more.

A very satisfying experience with responsive developers who seem to care about making a useful, quality product. I have several successful projects running with Blynk.

Blynk makes it very simple to create professional-looking mobile apps to control IoT hardware. There is a comprehensive selection of design elements ('widgets') which can be used to build anything from simple apps with a couple of buttons to complex virtual control panels with graphing, readouts etc.

As expected with a drag-and-drop 'app builder', there is a limit to the customisation that can be achieved, as that is the price to pay for not needing to write an app from scratch. The customisation is however steadily improving over time.

it will help you to effortless have your product internet connected

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- lake of Auth2.0 to make the integration with more services possible

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1) Blynk allows to Integrate some pretty impressive features in the project at a record time, mainly because the use of it's available widgets will dramatically reduce the amount of code to be written

I think they can offer more widgets for completely direct communication between the device and the smartphone (Mainly I'm talking about Bluetooth). Also i really wish that they consider offering a widget for reading from the phone's serial USB terminal so we can have the possibility to read data from the device by connecting it to the smartphone by OTG cable (at least in the Android version of the app)

I use several dashboards for several projects around the house, including my home security system and sump pump monitor. The app is very pleasing to the eye, my projects look very professional, and works flawlessly. The community support is very active, and company stakeholders are extremely active on their forums. They are generous with the amount of product that they let you use for free, more than enough to try it out and create truly useful projects, but if you want to do more, the cost to add additional widgets is surprisingly cheap. I threw them $20 a long time ago and still have most of that credit available.

Network connected microcontrollers are meaningless without a way to interact with them. Blynk makes the interface/app end of things EASY.

None. The Blynk app works well on all devices I've tried, setting up a project is easy, coding the controller is easy, and things just work!

Blynk is helping me build applications with hardware to monitor gardens, monitor indoor temperature, and a centralized open/closed vent system. It cuts out the need to develop software for prototypes or even full fledged products. It is great tool to have for beginners and experts.

I like the modularity of the application. The ease of use makes building prototypes very simple and quick. The fact that I can take my idea to prototype within minutes allows me to focus more on the project itself rather than a functional prototype. The ability to send my finished product, built in Blynk, to others is a great feature. I can build the hardware and send the application to the users phone.

I would like the superchart to have a graph of some kind to help determine the level more accurately.

I realized a lot of blynk projects with Arduino and esp devices with all kind of communication: Ethernet, Wi-Fi, GSM, always with success and riable. Even the choice to build your personal blynk server was a great thing when you Don does not have access to the Internet. Summing in few words: great platform

I was a Newby in C coding and I needed something cheap and versatile to test our products all around the world with real-time feedback and control. Blynk was the right choice among others - Reliable - many functions - And a great community to help

Honestly, nothing much to say about that. The only thing that I missed most was a browser interface that others may have.

I wanted to start my connected home mostly using ESP8266 to do really custom hardware and software. Blynk allowed me to get it running within a few hours.

The software is very easy to use and implement even for me who did not do any coding in the last 15 years. My sensors have been running on Blynk server for more than 3 years now without any issue. I was also positively impressed when seeing my improvement proposals implemented in the app after only a few weeks.

There could still be some further improvements in the GUI to get close to Grafana for instance

Blynk has helped me a lot. I went from local executable projects to a worldwide controlled projects and, at the same time, reducing the number of coding lines making the projects faster and stable. It also helped me in learning new programming languages.

Easy to install and use. With just few easy steps, the hardware and the mobile App will be communicating with the world and with each others. Best of all is the flexibility to choose from the out-of-the-box cloud server or the local server allowing so, a total control of the project.

Blynk is not known to many in the IOT world yet. But I'm sure, when this will happen, the users community will be larger and the project will be even more powerful.

Blynk is realy easy to learn even for beginers. You can start with paid blynk server, or wirh your own without spending any extra money. Blynk is full of features and fulfil most majority needs for IoT.

Lack support for 3rd party smart devices, so it is not suitable as smart home app (it is possible with cooperation with services like IFTTT). There is no oficial web interface yet. No support for smart assistents like Google assistant (it is possible with cooperation with services like IFTTT).

Basically.. programming got easier. It’s helped me become a better programmer. Still a code hacker. :) but I understand more than I did before.

I am not a strong programmer. I guess I’d consider myself more of a code hacker than a straight up programmer. I wanted to do a few internet based projects and was hitting a few roadblock due to my lack of programming skills. I came across blynk and it pretty much solved all my problems. The setup thru the app was so easy and any additional coding I was able to do thru the Arduino IDE. It integrates with so many different devices that you can really use it with just about anything. It’s also great that every item has a usage example you can reference.

I can’t think of anything that I really don’t like about it. It’s been really handy for me

Though I am just home automation enthusiast but initially I was thinking of using it for commercial projects but was afraid of basing my product on a very new and not settled app. But Blynk has been there for a while, continuously innovating and win trust of users.

Ease of use with minimal software knowledge.

Concept of energy. In some cases, it's impossible to claim the energy back if you remove a widget.

I like that it costs me 10 minutes and 10 lines of code to set Blynk up on ESP8266/ESP32 and start automating. I am currently using it to control the lights in my bedroom (also dimming the led strips with a mosfet) and turn on/off my DIY audio DAC and amplifier. Free credits are enough for what I use it. I have been using it for 3 years now and I have never had a single issue.

I have not found anything I don’t like so far.

As a maker and IoT dev, it's my favorite platform, all my home automation and alarm system based on Blynk and some upgrades to machines at my father factory.

Easy to understand the documentation and setup the environment,

Missing web dashboard, the customization of the app dashboard is limited but the build in widgets is enough to customize the app.

My main experience was to use the product to accelerate my own education with different IoT devices, libraries, and programming languages. It fulfilled that for me, and as I mention above, so much more by helping me involve my children as well. icing on the cake!

I was part of the initial KickStarter and had my own Raspberry/Arduino endeavors. ..What I found what that the amount of time I had to spend on it went down, but the amount of time my children wanted to use it went up. So much can be said about the libraries and compatibility, but the resulting ease of use, to foster that interest in IoT for my children is much more valuable.

some things may have popped up along the way that might be small areas where enhancements could be made, but I can't think of anything I would label a 'con' with Blynk.

I Just Want Its Support On Normal Web Interface Not Only Mobile UI ....

Blynk Is Best Best User Interface Best Support Team Best Community Easy To Use Best For New User Who 1st Time Join In IoT World ..

Add Few More Credit For New User ... All Is Best No Problem ...

I use Blynk to monitor weather station and control some robots and greenhouse and I am very pleased with the work of the application and the software code inside the microcontrollers.

Blynk supports many hardware platforms. Personally, I use Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32 + Ethernet and Wi-Fi to connect my devices. Applications in Blynk can be created quickly and easily.

This is ideal platform building an IoT projects and education.

Vova, Pavel, Eugene, and the rest of the team are true experts in the IoT field, and their expertise and the open source platform they’ve developed are an indispensable resource. Their competitors were by and large less capable of providing full-service business solutions, and were more expensive to boot.

Blynk’s team has been instrumental in helping us bring an enterprise IoT product to market.

Development stretched for months past our initial deadlines

Building projects has never been easy without Blynk. No stress of building a platform for your product this is a ready to go platform. Give it a try you will start loving it.

Blynk makes it so easy to build IoT applications with all the built in features. From simple to complex applications Blynk can handle it all. Monitor any kind of hardware using in build modules and widgets. Control most the hardware using connecting to the blynk cloud. There are many other ways to connect to Blynk like bluetooth, usd, BLE etc. Building your project has become so easy using Blynk services.

This is almost perfect platform building an IoT project, They can give some more credits to add widgets for free tire members. by Blynk on 26/11/2018 Thank you, Rithvik. We are very glad you liked using Blynk!