Think it. Say it.
It's written.

Correct. Speech recognition and AI cleanup both run on your PC, so there is nowhere for your audio or transcripts to be sent. Pull your network cable mid-sentence and dictation keeps working — once your subscription has been verified, it goes on working offline for 30 days before Blabb needs to check the licence again. The app prints that promise at the top of its own History page — see for yourself.

No — and it isn’t possible. Speech recognition and cleanup both run on your PC, so your words never leave the machine, and the models are fixed weights that don’t change with use. Training on your dictations can’t happen, so there’s nothing to promise. The one thing that adapts is your own glossary — names and terms you’ve corrected, stored on your PC to sharpen your own transcripts. That stays local too.

Yes. Blabb Free gives you 2,000 dictated words a day — every feature, resetting at midnight, no card and no time limit. When you need more than 2,000 words in a day, unlimited dictation is $4.99 a month, $49.99 a year (two months free), or $99 once.

No. The trial runs through Polar, our payment provider, and we never see your card. Cancel from the Polar customer portal within 14 days and you pay nothing — and Blabb Free keeps working either way.

Neither. Both the speech model and the cleanup model ship inside the installer — install it and dictate. No API key, no model download, no per-use bill.

Any Windows 11 (x64) PC with a microphone — no GPU needed, and no internet needed to dictate. Blabb is native x64 (Intel or AMD); Arm/Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs run only under slower emulation. Transcription is the quick part; the AI cleanup is slower and optional (switch it off for faster text). Most PCs speed up for free by using their built-in GPU. Here's how the on-device pipeline works.

Accurate out of the box. Blabb runs Cohere Transcribe, an openly licensed speech model, on your own machine — so natural speech and a range of accents come through clean. The harder part is names, acronyms, and jargon — and that's where dictionaries do the work: the vocabulary plans add 48,133 medical or 13,004 legal terms, and a personal glossary learns the words you use and correct, so your vocabulary gets sharper the more you dictate.

No. Some things can't be “tidied” — a phone number, passcode, serial, license key, file hash, or IP address. A cleanup that tries can quietly drop a digit and hand you a wrong number that looks clean. Blabb recognises those machine-shaped tokens, holds them aside while it polishes your words, and puts them back exactly as you dictated them. The wording around them may change; those characters never move. If it can't confirm one came back whole, it falls back to your raw words rather than a confident wrong answer — and every protected class has a test proving it breaks without the guard and survives with it.

Yes. Blabb types wherever your cursor is — Word, Outlook, Gmail, a browser tab, an EMR field, a chat window. It behaves like a very fast keyboard: it puts words into whatever has focus, so it works in any app that accepts typed text. It doesn't click buttons or drive the app for you, just the words. One honest limit: like any typing tool, it can't reach into windows running as administrator — a Windows security boundary, not a Blabb bug.

They are separate plans at USD $9.99 a month, not extras on the $4.99 one. Each includes everything in Blabb — unlimited dictation, all six writing styles, every input method — and adds a profession's dictionary: 48,133 medical terms or 13,004 legal ones. The full dictionary drives the spelling pass over the raw transcription, and a summary of matched terms reaches the AI editor. The dictionary lives on your PC, so an edition is exactly as private as the base app.

It's an easier review than most, because the usual questions answer themselves: where does the data go? Nowhere — audio and text never leave the machine, so there's no data-processing agreement to negotiate and no vendor breach that can expose your words. Distribution and updates run through the Microsoft Store as a standard signed MSIX package; billing and refunds run through Polar, a merchant of record, so there is no card data on our side either.