# Picking a style automatically

Let Blabb choose a light cleanup style based on the app you are dictating into, without touching the setting yourself.

If you dictate into a chat window and a document in the same ten minutes, you either change the
cleanup style each time or accept the wrong one half the time. **Auto-select per app** is the third
option.

Settings → **Writing style → Auto-select per app**. It is off out of the box.

## What it does

The app's own description: "Pick a light cleanup style based on the app you dictate into." When it
is on, Blabb looks at where your text is going and chooses accordingly, without you touching the
setting.

The important limit: **only light styles are ever chosen for you.** Tone-changing styles are never
picked automatically. Blabb will not decide on its own that this message should sound more formal
or more casual than you meant it to — if you want **Professional** or **Friendly**, you choose them
yourself.

## Who it suits

Turn it on if you spend the day moving between apps that want different amounts of tidying, and you
have caught yourself dictating into a chat box with a style meant for a report.

Leave it off if you know which style you want and want it applied consistently. That includes
anyone using **Original** deliberately — for exact wording, dictated figures or quotations, a style
that changes underneath you is not a convenience. It also includes anyone who has settled on one
style and stopped thinking about it, which is most people after a week.

## Not the same as Per-app settings

Two similar-sounding features, doing different jobs:

| Setting | What it binds to an app |
| --- | --- |
| **Auto-select per app** | Which cleanup style tidies your words. |
| **Per-app settings** | Which text entry method places the text at your cursor. |

[Per-app settings](/docs/configuration/per-app-settings/) is the one you reach for when text lands
badly in a particular app — arriving out of order, arriving in the wrong box, or not arriving at
all. It has nothing to do with how your words are worded.

## See also

- [Cleanup styles](/docs/cleanup-styles/overview/) — what each style is allowed to change.
- [Per-app settings](/docs/configuration/per-app-settings/) — fixing text entry in one app.