Blabby is a text-to-speech app designed to be a joy to use.
What you type is read out loud in real time, word by word, so your conversation partners don’t have to wait for you to type the entire sentence.
And there’s no need to type the same things over and over! Commonly used phrases can be saved as Quick Presets for one-tap access, or to the Bookmarks.
Sometimes text is the most effective way to communicate. Blabby displays your sentences in huge letters, so you can just show someone your screen, even at a distance.
Polyglots can easily enable multiple languages and quickly switch between them. English (UK and US), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish are supported. If your language isn’t supported, please email feedback@kaylees.site and let me know.
And obviously: no ads, no tracking, no data collection, no account required, no dark patterns.
Blabby was built with love and patience. I hope you’ll enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed making it!
It does not get better in this monetized data world than an app that is 100% free, no ads, collects no data, and *simply works*. Truly a ray of sunshine. The only suggestions I can make: Adding the ability to insert a pause. It takes several commas in a row to get a fraction of a second between sentences or words. Along the same line, being able to adjust the speed of speech would help. (I have been trying to get it to trigger Alexa when I cannot speak.) Thank you truly for this app!
I thought this was going to translate to the other languages
marcusnelson
For what this app does, it’s fantastic in the sense that it would help you communicate should your voice give out, but my first impulse, as you could imagine, was to believe this was going to translate my text to French (for instance), and everything I typed was just continually read back to me in English only with a French accent. LOL. Maybe put in the description that this is NOT a translator app?
Laryngitis
Star Wars Rebels Fan
I had laryngitis a couple weeks ago and this app saved me! It helped me communicate with family and doctors to tell them what was going on!
Awesome app
Pioneer9672
The apps great for what it does. Though I only got it because it looked interesting, I don’t really need it. But one bug I’ve found is sometimes the text shown is invisible. And I have to restart the app for it to show, or even the it doesn’t show. I have no idea how to reproduce the bug though.
The developer, Kaylee Calderolla, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Kaylee Calderolla
Size
541.7 KB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
