Speak it.
It's written.
Hold one key, anywhere on your Mac, and just talk. Blurt turns voice into text the way it should be — strips the ums, sets the punctuation, and lays clean, finished words exactly where your cursor sits. No window. No friction. On Apple Silicon, it runs right on your Mac.
By the numbers
One key. Three beats.
Then it's just words.
If you can hold a key, you already know how to use Blurt — push-to-talk dictation with a built-in AI editor that, on Apple Silicon, can run on your Mac once both local speech and clean-up models are ready.
Small app. Remarkably articulate.
It cleans up, it doesn't just transcribe
Removes filler words, fixes punctuation, breaks paragraphs, and obeys spoken commands like “new line” or “make that a list.”
Works in every app you already use
Mail, Slack, your code editor, Notes, the browser address bar — if it has a text field, Blurt types into it.
Speaks your language
Auto-detects what you speak — English, Russian, German and dozens more — and formats it correctly. No language to pre-pick.
A waveform that knows its place
A tiny, click-through pill floats at the bottom of the screen. It never steals focus, never gets in the way.
Your key, your call
Choose your push-to-talk key in Blurt — Option, Command, Control, or Fn.
See exactly what it heard
Every dictation shows the raw transcript beside the cleaned-up result. Type a messy sentence below and watch the clean-up run live — then copy the result.
Your voice stays yours.
Blurt can transcribe and clean up your words right on your Mac when both local models are installed and selected. On-device mode in Blurt 0.3.27 and later keeps processing local, including when a model is unavailable. Prefer the cloud? The managed Cloud plan relays your audio through Blurt's server and returns the text without storing it. No third-party analytics and no trackers, ever — and Blurt's own usage counters and crash reports are off unless you switch them on, and never contain a word you said.
Questions, answered.
Is Blurt free?
Yes. Blurt is free to use. You do need a free Blurt account: the app asks you to sign in and confirm your email address before the first dictation — it costs nothing and there is no card. After the guided permissions and model setup, fully local dictation on Apple Silicon costs nothing. Both local speech and clean-up models must be ready; check the route shown in the app. You also get 200 free cloud words to try the managed Cloud plan; subscribe to Blurt Pro if you'd rather we handle transcription for you — there is no daily limit, only an anti-abuse ceiling that works out to about 277 hours of speech a month (Terms § 8).
How is Blurt different from Apple's built-in Mac dictation?
Apple Dictation transcribes raw speech and times out. Blurt produces finished text: it removes filler words like um and uh, fixes punctuation, breaks paragraphs, and obeys spoken commands like "new line" and "make that a list". There's no timeout — you hold the key for as long as you like.
Does Blurt work in any app on my Mac?
Yes. Blurt is system-wide, not browser-only. If an app has a text field — Mail, Slack, Notes, VS Code, Word, your browser's address bar — Blurt types clean text right where your cursor sits.
Where does my audio go? Is Blurt private?
It depends on the mode. Fully local dictation requires both speech and clean-up models to be installed and selected. In Blurt 0.3.27 and later, On-device mode never switches to cloud processing automatically. On the managed Cloud plan, your audio is uploaded to Blurt's server, which relays it to a transcription provider (Soniox or ElevenLabs for the live row of words while you hold the key; Groq by default, or OpenAI, for the recording sent after you release) and returns the text without keeping the audio. Blurt includes no third-party analytics or trackers; its own usage analytics and crash reports are off unless you switch them on and never contain your words or audio. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
Do I need to set anything up?
Blurt guides you through first-run setup: sign in to a free account with a confirmed email address, grant the macOS permissions needed for dictation, and choose on-device or managed Cloud processing. On-device mode downloads its models to your Mac; Cloud mode uses our managed providers. You do not need your own API key.
Which languages does Blurt support?
Blurt auto-detects the language you speak — English, Russian, German, and dozens more — and formats the result correctly. You don't have to pre-select a language before you start talking.
Does Blurt run on Intel Macs, and what are the requirements?
No. Blurt is an Apple Silicon app: it requires a Mac with an M1 chip or newer and does not run on Intel Macs at all. The requirements are macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later on Apple Silicon, where local and Cloud processing are available. The download is 19.5 MB and Blurt lives in your menu bar.
How do I start dictating with Blurt?
Sign in to a free account with a confirmed email address, then follow Blurt's setup to grant the macOS permissions and choose on-device or Cloud processing. For on-device mode, let the models download first. Once setup is complete, hold the dictation key shown in Blurt and talk. Release it to insert the processed text at your cursor.
Stop typing. Start blurting.
A Mac dictation app with a built-in AI editor that lives in your menu bar. Out of your way in sixty seconds.