Is BigHand a dictation tool?

It includes digital dictation and speech recognition, but BigHand is really a legal workflow platform: your dictations are routed through configurable workflows to typists and secretaries, tracked with audit trails, and tied into matter management. It is sold to firms, not individuals. Blabb is the opposite shape — you press a hotkey, talk, and the cleaned-up text is typed straight at your cursor in whatever app has focus. Different categories for different buyers.

Does BigHand process audio in the cloud?

BigHand builds a per-user speech profile on its platform and its speech recognition is server-side; its privacy policy permits transfer of personal data outside your region via its processors, and the firm's contract governs the specifics. Blabb runs speech recognition and AI cleanup entirely on your PC — no audio or transcript is uploaded. The only server Blabb contacts is the licence check, and a verified subscription keeps dictating for 30 days without reaching it.

How do the prices compare?

They are not directly comparable. BigHand does not publish pricing — it is sales-quoted per firm, with a BigHand for SMEs tier for smaller firms and demos before any commercial conversation. Blabb publishes its prices: a free tier of 2,000 words a day forever, no card, and unlimited dictation at USD $4.99/month, USD $49.99/year, or USD $99 once for a lifetime licence, with a 14-day free trial on subscriptions. For a solo buyer, that transparency is the difference.

Does BigHand work in locked-down Citrix, RDP, or VDI sessions?

BigHand's public site does not document Citrix, RDP, or VDI as a specific supported scenario — its deployment details are gated behind the sales conversation. Blabb was built for exactly that environment: it runs on your local PC and types text key-by-key into the focused window using one of four input methods you set globally or per app, so dictation lands even where clipboard redirection is blocked. (Elevated/admin windows remain off-limits — a Windows boundary, not a Blabb bug.)

Blabb vs BigHand
Personal dictation vs firm workflow

BigHand is a different category entirely — a dictation and workflow platform sold to law firms, where your dictations are routed to typists and secretaries through configurable workflows, tracked with audit trails, and integrated into matter management. Blabb is personal dictation: you talk, cleaned-up text lands at your cursor. So this is less "which is better" and more "which category do you actually need." As of August 2026 — BigHand does not publish pricing; talk to sales and check its current site.

BigHand

ENTERPRISE

Blabb

ONE COFFEE / MONTH

Built for

Law firms and secretarial teams — dictations routed through workflows to typists, with priorities, due dates, and audit trails

An individual professional dictating clean text straight at their own cursor

Where your audio goes

BigHand's platform — its privacy policy permits transfer of personal data outside your region via its processors

✓This PC — audio and transcripts are never uploaded

Speech recognition

Server-side, building a per-user speech profile (99% accuracy claimed)

✓On-device — Cohere Transcribe runs on your CPU/GPU; no speech profile, no recognition server

AI text cleanup (fillers, grammar)

Not documented as a feature — BigHand transcribes

✓Removes fillers, fixes grammar, converts spoken numbers to digits

Typing-pool & workflow routing

✓Configurable workflows, priorities, due dates, work-sharing with a digital audit trail

✕Not a feature — Blabb types for you, not for a team

Specialist vocabulary

Built for the legal sector; no published term count, and no medical vocabulary documented

Medical (48,133 terms) and Legal (13,004 terms) vocabulary plans — on-device, USD $9.99/mo each, not included with standard Blabb

Locked-down RDP, Citrix, VDI

Not documented as a specific supported scenario on its public site

✓Types straight in†

Offline

Not documented — BigHand is a hosted platform with a server-side speech profile

✓Dictation runs on-device; the subscription re-checks online at least every 30 days‡

Price

Not published — per-firm, sales-quoted (a BigHand for SMEs tier exists for smaller firms)

✓Blabb Free: 2,000 words a day, no card. Unlimited: USD $4.99/mo, USD $49.99/yr, or $99 once — 14-day free trial

Platforms

✓Windows desktop; iPhone, iPad, and Windows mobile apps

✕Windows 11 (x64) only — and deeply

Scale & track record

✓810,000+ professionals, 3,300 firms, 82% of the Top 200 UK law firms

✕A tool for one person at a time

† NOT INTO ELEVATED/ADMIN WINDOWS — A WINDOWS LIMIT, NOT BLABB'S. ‡ AN ALREADY-VERIFIED SUBSCRIPTION KEEPS DICTATING FOR 30 DAYS WITHOUT REACHING THE LICENCE SERVER. FEATURE AND PRICING CLAIMS FOR BIGHAND SOURCED FROM ITS OWN PUBLIC SITE, AUGUST 2026 — VERIFY CURRENT DETAILS BEFORE DECIDING.

01The honest read

Firm infrastructure, or a tool for one

Choose BigHand if…

You run dictation across a whole law firm — partners dictating, secretaries and PAs typing, work routed by priority and matter, with audit trails and DMS integration. That is BigHand's actual product, and it is proven at scale (810,000+ professionals, 3,300 firms, 82% of the Top 200 UK law firms). Blabb does not compete with any of that.

Choose Blabb if…

You are one professional — a lawyer, doctor, consultant, or anyone else — who wants to talk and have clean text appear at your cursor, on your own PC, without a firm-wide rollout or a typing pool. Nothing you dictate leaves the machine, it works inside locked-down Citrix/RDP/VDI sessions where cloud tools can't reach, and the Medical (48,133 terms) and Legal (13,004 terms) vocabulary plans cover specialist terms on-device if you need them.

Some lawyers genuinely run both

They are not really competitors. BigHand is the right answer for a firm routing formal documents to a typing pool; Blabb is the right answer for an individual who wants their emails, notes, letters, and tickets typed straight at the cursor, privately, today, for USD $4.99 a month. Plenty of BigHand sites also have lawyers who reach for Blabb for the quick, private, at-the-cursor half of the day.

Personal dictation, not firm infrastructure.

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