free, open-source dictation for your Mac. hold the right ⌘ command key, speak, let go — your words land wherever your cursor is. runs entirely on your Mac. your voice is not another company's data.
v1.0.0 · 148 MB · Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) · signed & notarized by Apple
named blooop because "bloop" was taken. also, that's just how the AI works — it kinda… blooops your words into existence.
a little window in your menu bar remembers what you said, which app it landed in, and how long it took. copy it again, or wipe the lot.
Tools like Wispr Flow pass your speech through another model to polish it into tidy prose. Which is fine. But think about where your words are going.
If you're dictating into Fable 5 or Sol, why launder your words through a middleman model first? Your assistant behaves better on the full ramble — the "uhh wait, actually make it a dropdown instead" is signal, not noise. Let the model you're actually talking to do the understanding.
blooop types what you said. That's it. That's the feature.
drafting a polished email to a human? fair — that's what the fancy tools are for. blooop is for talking to the machines.
then never again.
unzip, drag Blooop into Applications, open it. it's notarized, so macOS just opens it — no scary "unidentified developer" dialogs. we paid Apple the $99 so you don't get yelled at.
it asks for two macOS permissions — microphone, and accessibility so the hotkey works everywhere — then downloads a speech model. Medium (1.4 GB) is recommended. one time only.
hold the right command key in any app, speak, release. your words paste in at the cursor. that's the whole thing.
double-tap right ⌘ for hands-free mode. tap once to stop.
blooop transcribes with MLX Whisper directly on your Mac's own silicon. after the one-time model download, everything works offline — on a plane, in a bunker, wherever.
trade speed for accuracy, switchable anytime in settings.
double-tap the hotkey and it keeps listening — long dictation without holding a key down. tap once to stop.
teach it your weird product names, teammates, and jargon so it stops guessing.
auto-gain plus a mic-sensitivity setting, because not everyone projects. it catches the mumble.
if you can paste into it, blooop can type into it. editors, chat, terminals, forms — all of it.
no Windows, no Intel Macs. it's an MLX thing — the on-device speed comes from the M-series chips. M1 or newer.
free forever, no account, nothing to cancel.
v1.0.0 · 148 MB · Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) · signed & notarized by Apple · all releases