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BlackFlare
Last updated 2026-07-29 · benchmark measured 2026-08-12 — deterministic & reproducible
macOS menu bar app that keeps your Mac awake and notifies you when Claude Code or Codex sessions finish.
Is BlackFlare production-ready?
Legit.Show scores BlackFlare 83 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on BlackFlare (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 72/100
- Accessibility — 100/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 75/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 1480 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
Tin (@tin_trungnguyen) · product account @blackflaggerdev
Who it's for
AI developers · Claude users · Codex users · Mac users · Remote workers
Pricing
Free tier available; Premium $8 one-time payment (no subscription)
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