Blurt Board
Answers to the things people ask most. If yours is not here, write in — a real person reads it.
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Please say which device and which version of Blurt you are on. The version is at the bottom of Settings.
Anything the system can decode: mp3, m4a, aac, wav, aiff, caf, and more. If the Files app can play it, Blurt can almost certainly take it.
Tap Import Sounds on an empty board, or the import button in the toolbar. On Mac and iPad you can also drag files straight onto the board.
Yes — the microphone button in the toolbar. Recording goes straight onto a pad. On Apple Watch you can record on your wrist and send it to your iPhone.
Hold a pad and open its settings to change the mode.
Check the silent switch on an iPhone, and the volume slider in Blurt's own transport bar at the bottom. If a sound was moved or deleted outside the app, the pad will say the sound is missing — import it again.
On Mac and iPad with a hardware keyboard, the number row and letter keys trigger pads. Each pad can be given its own key in its settings.
Yes, with one piece of setup. macOS does not route one app's audio into another app's microphone, so a soundboard is not heard by default — and if you are on speakers, the echo cancellation in those apps is specifically designed to remove it.
There are two ways round it.
Zoom, Teams and Google Meet can all send your Mac's audio during a screen share — Zoom calls it Share Sound, Teams calls it Include computer sound. Tick it and Blurt is heard, with nothing to install. The catch is that you have to be sharing your screen.
To be heard as your microphone, at any time, you need a virtual device that Blurt plays into and your call app listens to. BlackHole is free and the usual choice; Loopback is paid and easier to configure.
That "only Blurt moves" part is the whole point of the setting. Without it you would have to switch your entire Mac to BlackHole and would not be able to hear anything.
Expected — your call app is listening to BlackHole, and your actual microphone is not going into it. To send both, open Audio MIDI Setup (in Applications → Utilities) and create an Aggregate Device containing both BlackHole and your microphone, then select that as the microphone in your call app.
Also expected, for the same reason — Blurt is playing into BlackHole, which is not connected to your ears. In Audio MIDI Setup, create a Multi-Output Device containing BlackHole and your headphones, then choose that in Blurt instead of BlackHole itself.
Hold any pad. You get EQ, reverb, delay, pitch, speed, distortion, compression, chorus, flanger and a noise gate, plus reverse, normalise, fades and trimming.
No. The file you imported is never modified. Effects are applied on playback, or baked into a cached copy, and you can always take them back off.
Settings → iCloud Drive. Your library moves there and your other devices pick it up shortly after. All of them need to be signed into the same Apple Account with iCloud Drive turned on.
Yes. Moving copies everything across first and only removes the original once the copy has succeeded, so an interrupted move leaves your library intact.
iCloud can take a few minutes, and it will not sync at all on a low battery or a metered connection. Open the Files app and look in iCloud Drive → Blurt; if you can see the files there, the sync worked and the app will catch up.
Space and transfer time. Mark the pads you want with Send to Apple Watch, and Blurt converts and transfers just those.
No. Once sounds have transferred, the watch plays them on its own.
Nothing, on purpose. Blurt is free, has no ads and locks nothing away. A tip is a thank you, and the app works identically whether or not you leave one.
That is expected — the section header changes to say thank you and that is all. If you were charged and even that did not happen, write in and Apple can refund it.
Blurt has no network code, no accounts and no analytics. It cannot send your data anywhere. The full explanation is in the privacy policy.
Email blurtboard.app@gmail.com with your device, your version of Blurt, and what you did just before it went wrong. Bugs get fixed faster than feature requests, but both are read.