Per-app settings
When text lands badly in one app, change how it is entered for that app alone and leave everything else as it was.
UPDATED 2026-07-28
Every app you dictate into gets recorded on this page. For each one you can choose a different way of entering text, so the app that garbles your paragraphs gets fixed without changing anything that already works.
The page says it plainly at the top: "If text does not appear correctly in an app, choose a different text entry option for that app."
What you can do here#
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Text entry | The method used in that app. The dropdown lists Use default setting, Type fast, Paste, Type slowly, Direct. |
| Remove | Takes that app off the list. It comes back the next time you dictate into it. |
| Remove all | Empties the list. |
Apps are identified by their executable name, which is the name of the program file rather than the title in the window. One entry covers the app wherever you use it.
The workflow#
You are dictating into six things a day and five of them are fine. The sixth drops half the words, or types them out of order, or takes nothing at all.
- Note which app it was.
- Open Settings, Per-app settings.
- Find that app in the list and give it a different Text entry method.
- Dictate into it again.
Type fast is the global default, so if that is what the app is already getting, try Direct, then Paste, and leave Type slowly for last — it only handles plain ASCII, so it is no use for accented or non-Latin text. How your text is entered explains what each costs you.
Use default setting puts an app back to whatever you have chosen globally, which is the thing to pick when you have been experimenting and want to start again.
Removing an app is not a setting#
Remove clears that app's entry. It does not block the app, and it does not stop Blabb typing into it — the next dictation there puts it straight back on the list using your global default.
Use it to tidy up something you tried once, or to reset an app whose custom method you no longer want. Remove all does the same to every entry at once.
Note
The list is a record of where you have dictated, not a permission list. Nothing on it grants or denies access to anything.
Not to be confused with Auto-select per app#
There is a second per-app feature, and it lives somewhere else and does something entirely different.
| Feature | Page | What it decides |
|---|---|---|
| Per-app settings | Settings, Per-app settings | How the text is placed in that app. |
| Auto-select per app | Settings, Writing style | How the text is worded in that app. |
Auto-select per app picks a cleanup style based on the app you are dictating into — a lighter touch for a chat box than for a document. It is off by default and it never changes the placement. See Auto-select per app.
If your text is arriving badly formed or not at all, you want this page. If it is arriving fine but worded wrong, you want that one.