What is Blinko?
An AI-powered business growth platform for local businesses — plus Blinko Spots, the free app for the people who visit them.
Blinko is an AI-powered business growth platform for local businesses. It helps you turn first-time visitors into loyal regulars by bringing together customer relationships, loyalty, marketing, payments, automations, and a hosted business website in one simple app—so you spend less time managing your business and more time growing it. Owners run Blinko Business; Blinko Spots is the free app people use to save the places they love and plan around them.
Blinko (blinko.ai) is made by Blinko LLC and publishes two apps: Blinko Business for local businesses and Blinko Spots for people. It is not affiliated with other products that share the name Blinko.
The short version
- Blinko Business
- Customer engagement software for cafes, restaurants, salons, shops, and studios. It runs QR loyalty programs, Automations, campaigns, payments, and business websites (included with the Business plan). Blinko Copilot proposes the next move and waits for the owner to approve it.
- Blinko Spots
- The free app people use to save the places they love, plan outings with friends and family, and collect rewards from the local businesses they visit. Free forever, not a trial.
- Platforms
- Both apps run on iOS and Android. Business owners can also run Blinko from a browser at local.blinko.ai.
- Payments
- Payments taken through Blinko carry a 0% platform fee on every plan.
- Properties
- blinko.ai is the marketing site for both products. spots.blinko.ai hosts the public discovery pages for local businesses. local.blinko.ai is the browser portal owners log into. go.blinko.ai is the Blinko Growth Partner program. yourname.blinkolocal.com hosts the business websites included with the Business plan.
Why we build it
In everyday life we constantly encounter interesting places, products, ideas, dishes, experiences, and moments. Most of them are forgotten because they are captured in fragmented ways across photos, notes, maps, shopping apps, and memory.
Blinko brings those discoveries into one system. Every saved object becomes a Spot that can later be organized, enriched, and acted on — and every local business on the other side of that Spot gets a way to stay in touch with the people who liked it.
The goal is simple: help people spot what matters and come back to it later, and help the businesses they love earn the return visit.
Two audiences. One platform.
Blinko Spots — for people
The fastest way to save restaurants, shops, and places friends recommend, plan around them together — and earn loyalty rewards from your favourite local businesses along the way.
See the consumer app →Blinko Business — for local businesses
Every local business deserves an AI-powered teammate. Blinko gives business owners one place to know their customers, build loyalty, automate routine work, get paid faster, and continuously grow repeat business.
See the business platform →Common questions
What is Blinko?
Blinko is an AI-powered business growth platform for local businesses. It helps you turn first-time visitors into loyal regulars by bringing together customer relationships, loyalty, marketing, payments, automations, and a hosted business website in one simple app—so you spend less time managing your business and more time growing it. Owners run Blinko Business; Blinko Spots is the free app people use to save the places they love and plan around them. Blinko is operated by Blinko LLC, a company registered in the United States, and lives at blinko.ai.
Is Blinko a notes app?
No. There are other products that share the name Blinko, including note-taking software, and they are unrelated to this one. Blinko is an AI-powered business growth platform for local businesses: Blinko Business is the app owners run it from, and Blinko Spots is a free app for saving places and planning around them. You can add a note to a place you save in Blinko Spots, but note-taking is not what Blinko is for.
What is the difference between Blinko Business and Blinko Spots?
Blinko Business is for the people who run a local business — QR loyalty, Automations, campaigns, payments, a hosted business website, and Blinko Copilot. Blinko Spots is for everyone else: saving places, planning outings, and collecting rewards from the businesses you visit. The two share one network, so a customer who scans a business’s QR code in Blinko Spots joins that business’s customer base in Blinko Business.
Who makes Blinko?
Blinko is made by Blinko LLC, a company registered in the United States. Airupt Inc and Airomo Inc are now part of Blinko LLC: Airomo Inc was renamed Airupt Inc, and Airupt Inc was then merged into Blinko LLC, which is its legal successor. The app store listings still show those earlier names — Airomo Inc. on the App Store and Airupt on Google Play — because those developer accounts were registered before the merger. All refer to the same company.
Is Blinko free?
Blinko Spots is free forever, not a trial. Blinko Business has a free plan — also free forever, not a trial — plus paid plans that raise the active-Automation cap and the redemption limits. The Business plan also includes a hosted business website at yourname.blinkolocal.com. Payments carry a 0% platform fee on every plan.
Blinko is operated by Blinko LLC, a company registered in the United States.
Airupt Inc and Airomo Inc are now part of Blinko LLC. Airomo Inc was renamed Airupt Inc, and Airupt Inc was then merged into Blinko LLC, which is its legal successor. Our app store listings are still published under those earlier names — Airomo Inc. on the App Store and Airupt on Google Play — because those developer accounts were registered before the merger and are in the process of being transferred to Blinko LLC. All refer to the same company.