Blurt for iPhone

Speak. It types. Nothing leaves the phone.

Blurt is a voice keyboard that transcribes and rewrites entirely on your iPhone. This page is where to get help with it.

Common questions Privacy policy

The short version

What Blurt actually does

One promise carries the product, so it is worth stating plainly before anything else.

You hold a key and talk. Blurt records with the phone’s microphone, transcribes the audio on the device, and hands the finished text to the keyboard so it lands in whatever app you were already typing in. An on-device model can tidy the result if you ask it to.

Audio and transcripts never leave your iPhone. That is not a policy we could quietly change in an update without you noticing — there is no transcription server to send audio to, and the keyboard extension contains no networking code whatsoever.

Requires: iPhone running iOS 17 or later
Transcription: On device, with whisper.cpp — no audio leaves the phone
Rewriting: On device, with a local language model
Account: Optional. Sign in with Apple or Google, off by default
Blurt Pro: $9.99/month or $79.99/year

Common questions

The seven things people ask

If your question is not here, the contact form below reaches a person, not a queue.

How do I turn the keyboard on?

Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard, and pick Blurt. Then switch to it from any text field with the globe key. The keyboard works the moment it is added; you do not need Full Access to dictate.

Why does the keyboard ask for Full Access?

Only so it can read the transcript your own Blurt app already saved on the phone. The app and the keyboard are two halves of the same product and they hand text between them through a shared container on the device. The keyboard has no microphone access and makes no network requests at all — there is no code in it that could. Leave Full Access off and dictation still works; you just paste the result yourself instead of it appearing in place.

Does my voice go to a server?

No. Recording uses the phone’s microphone and transcription runs locally. No audio and no transcript is sent anywhere, including to us. The full list of network calls the app can make is on the privacy page, and it is short enough to read in full.

Can I dictate in another language?

Yes, with a multilingual model. Settings → Language → Spoken language. The choice takes effect on your next take rather than immediately, because the language is applied per decode. The default English-only model cannot decode another language and will produce confident nonsense if asked, so the picker is constrained by the model you have downloaded.

I stopped a recording and nothing was transcribed.

The audio is still there. Blurt saves the recording before it checks whether a model is loaded, so a take started before the model finished loading is kept and marked as saved-but-not-transcribed rather than discarded. It survives until your next take, so transcribe or share it before recording again.

How do I cancel Blurt Pro?

Through whoever you bought it from. Subscriptions bought inside the app are managed in Settings → your name → Subscriptions on your iPhone. Cancelling leaves everything that runs on device working — dictation, the keyboard, and your history are not part of the paid tier.

How do I delete my data?

Delete the app. Everything Blurt keeps — recent takes and their recordings, the current transcript, downloaded models, and any sign-in token — lives in the app’s own storage and goes with it. If you turned on vocabulary sync, ask us to remove the synced profile and we will.

Still stuck

Tell us what happened and we will answer.

Blurt is made by Team Nebula. Support requests go to the same people who wrote the app. If you are reporting something that went wrong, the iOS version and what you were doing when it happened are the two details that make it fixable.