Deleting your data

Remove one dictation, all of them, or everything Blabb holds — and the one folder uninstalling leaves behind.

UPDATED 2026-07-28

Four levels, smallest first. Pick the smallest one that does what you need.

One dictation#

Open History, find the entry, and use Delete on its toolbar. It is gone from the database immediately.

If that was the wrong entry, Ctrl+Z puts it back, or use the undo button that appears. You have about six seconds: the bar dismisses itself after that, and once it has gone Ctrl+Z does nothing. So undo it there and then, not after you have thought about it.

All of your history#

Clear history at the top of the History window deletes every entry. It asks you to confirm first, because there is no undo for this one.

Your settings, your saved words and your licence are untouched.

See The History window.

Everything Blabb holds about you#

Settings → Privacy → Delete Blabb data. It removes:

• your dictation history
• your saved words
• your logs

It deliberately keeps three things: your settings, your licence, and the integrity audit log.

The first two are the ones people ask about, and it is worth saying why. Deleting your words should not sign you out of the product you paid for, and it should not hand you back an app you have to configure from scratch. Someone clearing their history before handing the laptop to a colleague, or after a sensitive dictation, wants the words gone — not their microphone choice, their shortcut and their subscription gone with them.

The third is less obvious. The audit log is a tamper-evident record of security events, kept as a legal-obligation record rather than because it holds anything you dictated.

The confirmation says so in as many words, and this one cannot be undone.

Everything, including the app#

Uninstalling Blabb through Windows removes the application. It does not remove %LocalAppData%\Blabb.

So to leave nothing behind:

1. Run Delete Blabb data first, or skip to step 2 — either way works.
2. Uninstall Blabb through Windows Settings → Apps.
3. Open File Explorer, paste %LocalAppData%\Blabb into the address bar, and delete the folder.

Step 3 is the one people miss. Nothing outside that folder needs cleaning up. Note that deleting it also removes your saved licence — keep the key from your subscription email if you plan to install again.

Letting it delete itself#

You do not have to remember any of this. Settings → Privacy → Keep dictation history sets how long entries survive:

The default is 1 week, which is long enough to find yesterday's email and short enough that nothing accumulates quietly for years. If you never look at history, Don't save is the cleanest setting there is — nothing to delete because nothing was written.

Cancelling a dictation also writes nothing to history.

See also#

• Privacy settings
• Where your data is kept