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Blurt

Hold Left Control. Talk. Let go.

Your words appear typed and cleaned up anywhere on your Mac. Free, private, no subscription.

Download for Mac
Version 1.0.0 · 15 MB · Needs an Apple-chip Mac (M1 or newer) on macOS 26+
📱 You're on your phone Blurt is a Mac app. Open this link on your MacBook to download it.

Tip: open Messages on your Mac and the same link will be there.

💻 Blurt is for Macs It needs a Mac with an Apple chip (M1 or newer) running macOS 26 or later.

Open this link on a Mac to download it.

How it works

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Hold Left ControlWherever your cursor is: Gmail, Slack, Notion, Messages…
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Talk naturallyUms, uhs and restarts are fine.
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Let goClean, punctuated text appears in about a second.

Install in about 3 minutes

  1. Open the downloadA window opens with the Blurt icon and an arrow.
  2. Drag Blurt onto ApplicationsThen open Blurt from your Applications folder.
  3. Allow it oncemacOS says it "could not verify" Blurt (it's a free app made by a friend, not sold through Apple). Click Done, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
  4. Give it 3 permissionsMicrophone, Accessibility and Input Monitoring. Blurt's Settings window walks you through it.
  5. DoneBlurt downloads its AI model once (about 1.1 GB) and lives in your menu bar. Hold Left Control and talk.

Private by design

Speech recognition and text cleanup run entirely on your Mac. Nothing you say is uploaded, there's no account, and there's no tracking. Blurt only goes online the first time, to download its AI model.