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
⚠️ The first time you open Blurt, your Mac will warn you. That's normal for free apps.
Click Done, not Move to Trash. Here's exactly what to click ↓
📱 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…🗣️
Talk naturallyUms, uhs and restarts are fine.✨
Let goClean, punctuated text appears in about a second.Install in about 3 minutes
- Open the downloadA window opens with the Blurt icon and an arrow.
- Drag Blurt onto ApplicationsThen open Blurt from your Applications folder.
- Allow it onceYour Mac warns that it "could not verify" Blurt. Follow the steps in First time you open Blurt below.
- Give it 3 permissionsMicrophone, Accessibility and Input Monitoring. Blurt's Settings window walks you through it.
- DoneBlurt downloads its AI model once (about 1.1 GB) and lives in your menu bar. Hold Left Control and talk.
First time you open Blurt
Blurt is a free app made by a friend, not sold through Apple, so macOS asks you to confirm it once. Takes 30 seconds.
- Click “Done”, not “Move to Trash” This warning only has these two buttons. “Open Anyway” comes in the next steps.
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security Click the Apple logo in the top-left corner of your screen → System Settings, then Privacy & Security in the sidebar.
- Scroll all the way down and click “Open Anyway” In the Security section you'll see that Blurt was blocked. Click Open Anyway, then enter your Mac password or use Touch ID.
- Click “Open Anyway” one more time A last pop-up appears, and this one has an Open Anyway button. Click it and Blurt starts. You never have to do this again.
Don't see the Blurt message in step 3? It only shows for about an hour after the warning. Open Blurt from
Applications again, click Done, then go straight back to Privacy & Security.
Clicked Move to Trash by accident? No problem: download it again and start over.
Comfortable with Terminal? Skip all of this with one command
After dragging Blurt into Applications, open the Terminal app, paste this and press Return. Then Blurt opens with no warning. It only affects Blurt.xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Blurt.app