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A blip is one second, so there's nothing to compose and nothing to overthink. Send it, they get a push notification, they tap once and hear you.
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Welcome To The Greatest Audio Sharing App Ever Created!
A second of noise, and their whole screen. Tap the mic, make a noise, tap a friend or your whole crew. It lands as a push notification a second later — and if you armed an effect, confetti or a quake or fireworks takes over their entire screen the moment they play it. No feed. No likes. No profile to build. Just the stupidest sound you can produce, in about four seconds. And every single day is a holiday — Watermelon Day, Friendship Day, Doughnut Day — so there's always something new on the home screen to send someone, whether or not anyone has blipped you.
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iPhone & Android
Sending is Always Free · No ads · No tracking · English, Español & 简体中文
1 secto record & send
365holidays a year, one a day
20screen-takeover effects
16free jab sounds on Local Jab
14holiday & birthday effects
0feeds, ads or trackers
How it works
Open it, tap the mic, tap a friend. There is no step four.
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Sign in, then pick your own code
Sign in with Apple, with Google, or with your email and a 6-digit code — no password, no username to hunt for. Then you choose the code friends add you by: your name, your nickname, your shop. It's free, it's the first thing the app asks you, and you can change it later. Text it, share an invite link that opens straight into the app, or let it match your contacts on-device. Groups get their own 5-character code, so a whole crew joins with one.
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Tap the mic — it stops itself
Pick a length first and one tap does the rest: recording starts, then cuts at exactly that mark. One second is the default and usually enough; 1s, 2s and 3s are always free, 5s, 10s and 15s unlock. Hear it back before it goes anywhere.
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Arm an effect, then pick who gets it
Load confetti, a quake or fireworks before you send — or skip your recording entirely and fire a ready-made sound. Then tap one friend or a whole group. They get a push, hit play once, and it takes over their screen. Then it's gone: you only ever see the newest blip from each person.
See it in action
Seven screens. No feed in sight.
And what sits behind the other four tiles.
What's inside
A tiny app with a lot of small tricks.
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Groups
One noise, the whole crew. A group has its own 5-character code, and its screen shows the newest blip from each member — never a chat log to catch up on. Tap the play count to see exactly who heard it.
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Local Jab — meet people near you
Switch it on and you'll see other people nearby who switched it on too. Send one a friendly noise; if they send one back, you're friends and real blips start flowing. Nobody can say a word to you until you've both waved: a jab carries one of twenty-one preset noises and nothing else — never a recording, never text — so there is nothing a stranger can shout at you. Ten of those a day, and jabbing someone back never counts against it. When a wave is answered you both pick up 5 credits.
Pick up to eight things you're into, from a fixed list of fifteen — outdoors, cars, coffee, gaming — and the people who share one show up first, with their tags on their card. Fifteen of the noises are paired with those tags, so an engine rev says "I'm into cars" without a word being typed. There is no free-text field anywhere in it.
Your exact location never leaves your phone. Your device rounds you into an area a few miles across and sends that, plus the name of your town — no coordinates, no map pin, and no "last seen here". Browsing shows you nobody's area, only a word like "in your area" or "in Atlanta". Wave at someone and they see one extra thing: roughly how far apart you were when you sent it, rounded to the nearest few miles and frozen there forever, because a figure that kept updating is all it takes to find someone's front door. You can't browse without being listed yourself, and switching it off deletes your area rather than hiding it.
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Twenty screen-takeover effects
Confetti, quake, fireworks, flash, hearts, star shower, spin, balloons, siren and punch. Arm one before you send and it hijacks their entire screen on play — the quake buzzes their phone too. Then there are the ten wild ones: a giant eye, a shark, a T-rex, an angry goose and six more, each one a full-screen picture that snaps out of nowhere and rattles. No two sends look the same, either: every one is dealt a fresh seed, so the confetti falls differently and the picture lands at a different crop each time. Tap the eye to watch any of them first; you never pay to find out what one does.
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Thirty ready-made sounds
Quiet room, or just out of ideas? Send a game-over jingle, a laser, an alarm or a fanfare instead of your own voice — or something from the wild: crickets, a frog, a wolf howl, a meow, an owl, thunder, rain, a rooster, a duck. Or applause, a fiddle jig, a ghost wail, sleigh bells, a festival drum, a chick peeping, a kazoo birthday tune. Each one is 3 credits for 24 hours, all thirty-five come with Blip+, and the twenty-one you can send as a jab are free forever on Local Jab — so there is always a way to send a noise when you can't make one.
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A new holiday every single day
National Watermelon Day. Friendship Day. Doughnut Day. Every calendar day has a real, daft little observance, and BlipJab names it in the banner at the top of the home screen the moment you open the app. It flips at midnight, everybody in the world gets the same day, and seeing what today is costs nothing and unlocks nothing — it's just there, waiting, every morning.
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Send the day to your people
Each day brings its own full-screen animation, built out of that day's own emoji — a watermelon downpour, doughnuts raining sideways, hearts blooming for Friendship Day. Record a "happy Doughnut Day" for a friend, your mum or the family group, tap the banner to add the day to it, and the animation hijacks their entire screen the moment they hit play. Your first blip carrying the day is free, every day.
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Ten effects for every holiday
Twelve holidays — New Year, Lunar New Year, Valentine's, Presidents' Day, St. Patrick's, Easter, Mother's & Father's Day, July 4th, Halloween, Diwali, Thanksgiving and Christmas — and each one brings ten effects of its own. One tile per holiday sits in the row all year; then a week before the day, the row fills up with that holiday's ten and reverts once it's past. Santa dropping in, trees along the bottom, a sleigh crossing the screen, carols in the snow. Nothing is ever locked out of season: a snowfall in July is still one tap away.
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A birthday set of its own
Ten effects that never go out of season, because somebody you know has a birthday every day of the year: Birthday Bash, Candle Glow, Gift Drop, Streamer Blast, cupcakes, bubbles, cake, a banner, a wish and sundaes. Pair one with the free kazoo birthday tune if you can't sing.
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Fire it straight back — free
Someone hit you with a quake? Whatever they sent sits right on their card, and if you don't own it you get one free shot with it: tap "Send it back — free", record your noise, and it goes straight back at them. One shot, at them only, on your very next blip to them — reply without it and it's gone. The person who got startled is the one person in the app who should never have to pay to answer.
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See who's around
A soft green dot marks the friends who have the app open right now, so you know when a blip is going to land the second you send it.
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Length when you need it
One second is the point, and one, two and three seconds are always free. Five, ten and fifteen are there for the story that genuinely needs them.
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Nothing piles up
Newest-only by design: one blip per friend, one per group member. No backlog, no unread count in the hundreds, no pressure to answer everything.
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Eighteen colour themes, plus one in season
A theme repaints the entire app — every button, tab, badge and highlight. Coffee, grape, ocean, pumpkin, sunshine, forest, space, candy, volcano, rainbow, beach, river, indigo, lime, mint, rose, camouflage, amber. One more rotates with the season and the holidays, at a discount, and leaves when its window closes.
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Three languages
English, Español and 简体中文. A new phone opens in its own language automatically, and you can switch any time in Settings.
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Blip Archive
Blips vanish by design — unless you keep them. The Archive holds every blip you've sent and received on your own device, filterable by person, direction and length, long after the ephemeral copy is gone.
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Private by design
Signing in takes Apple, Google, or an email and a 6-digit code — no password, no phone number, no profile. Recordings sit in private storage and are only ever unlocked, through a link that expires, for the people you sent them to. Optional contact matching is hashed on your device; numbers never leave your phone. Local Jab is off until you turn it on, and even then your coordinates stay on your phone — only a rough area a few miles across is ever sent.
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Report and block
Flag any blip or person, pick a reason, and block them in the same tap. A blocked person can't blip you, add you or reach your notifications — and a human reviews every report within 24 hours.
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Leave whenever
One tap in Settings deletes your account, your blips, your friendships and your groups. Immediate, and no support ticket to file.
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Make it yours
Nickname your friends, search them by name or code, mute the noisy ones, and pick a display name. Your invite code is yours to choose too — the first pick and three changes are free.
Free, with optional extras
Recording and sending 1, 2 and 3 second blips is Always Free. Nothing is gated behind an ad.
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Free
Unlimited one, two and three-second blips, friends by code or invite link, one group of six, notifications, all three languages and every safety control. No ads, no tracking, ever.
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Blip+ · $4.99/month or $39.99/year
All 20 year-round effects, every holiday and birthday effect on top of them, all thirty-five blip sounds, 5s, 10s and 15s blips always on, all eighteen themes plus whichever seasonal one is up, unlimited groups of twenty, unlimited Mixtape keeps, your own invite code, and 35 credits every month. Renews until you cancel; cancel any time in your store account.
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Credits, if you'd rather not subscribe
Bundles run from 25 credits for $0.99 up to 1500 for $24.99. Unlock a single effect for 5 credits — holiday and birthday effects included, same price — or a blip sound for 3, a colour theme for 7 credits, or a longer blip length for 5 to 10 credits, each for 24 hours, instead of subscribing. Gift credits to a friend, or spend 75 credits to boost a group so every member gets every effect, and the group holds twenty people, for 14 days. Credits are a virtual item with no cash value.
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The Blip Archive · free
Every blip you send and receive, kept privately on your own phone and replayable any time. It costs nothing and there is nothing to unlock.
Questions, answered
What is BlipJab?
BlipJab is a micro-sound app. You tap the mic, make a noise, and blast it to a friend or a whole group. Arm an effect and it takes over their entire screen when they hit play. No feeds, no likes, no endless scrolling — just tiny moments between people who matter.
How long can a blip be?
One second is the default and the whole point. One, two and three seconds are always free; five, ten and fifteen unlock with Blip+, or with a 24-hour credit pass if you'd rather not subscribe. You pick the length before you record, and the recording cuts itself at exactly that mark.
Can strangers contact me?
Only if you switch Local Jab on, and even then only in one direction and one form. People nearby who also switched it on can send you a "jab" — one of twenty-one preset noises, nothing else. No recording, no text, no photo, so there is nothing anyone can shout at you. Nobody can send you a real blip until you have jabbed them back, which makes the connection something you both agreed to, and any stranger is capped at ten of those waves a day across the whole app. If you let us tell you about jabs, any one person can only ever notify you once. Block and report work on them exactly as they do on friends. Leave Local Jab off and BlipJab reaches you only through codes and links you handed out yourself.
Does Local Jab know where I live?
No, and neither do we. Your phone asks the operating system for a deliberately vague fix, rounds it into a grid square a few miles across, and sends that square plus the name of your town. Your coordinates never leave the device — there is no field on our server that could even hold them. Other people never receive your square either, only a word like "in your area" or "in Atlanta": no direction, no map pin, no "last seen here". Someone you actually wave at also sees roughly how far apart you were at that moment, rounded to the nearest few miles and never recalculated — a single frozen reading, because it is a figure that keeps updating as you move that would let somebody work out where you sleep. Switch it off and the square is deleted rather than hidden.
When does it launch?
BlipJab is coming soon to iPhone and Android. Keep an eye on this page — we'll announce the launch date here.
Is it free?
Recording and sending blips is Always Free — there is no meter, no per-blip cost, no ads and no tracking. The twenty-one sounds you can send as a jab are also free forever on Local Jab. The extras — effects, the thirty-five blip sounds, longer blips, colour themes, the Archive — are optional, paid either with a Blip+ subscription or with credits. You can preview every one of them before you unlock anything, and an effect a friend just hit you with is free to send straight back at them once.
What's the "holiday of the day"?
Every calendar day has one, and the app tells you which: National Watermelon Day, Friendship Day, Doughnut Day. It sits in the banner at the top of the home screen, it changes at midnight, and it's the same day for everyone — seeing it is free and needs no unlock. Each day also brings its own full-screen animation made from that day's emoji, so you can record a "happy Watermelon Day" and send the whole thing to a friend or the family group. Your first blip carrying the day is free every day; after that it's an ordinary 3-credit 24-hour unlock, or it's included in Blip+. While a dated holiday is running — Christmas, Halloween, Diwali — that one takes the banner instead.
Are the holiday effects only there in season?
Nothing is ever locked by the calendar — an effect you own can be sent on any day of the year, and a blip already sent always replays its effect. What the calendar decides is which ten the shelf is showing. One tile per holiday sits in the row every day; from a week before a holiday through the day itself, the row holds that holiday's ten instead, then goes back. The banner at the top of the home screen names a holiday on the day itself. Unlock any effect for 5 credits for 24 hours, or get the lot with Blip+.
What language is the app in?
English, Spanish and Simplified Chinese. A new install opens in your phone's language automatically, and you can change it any time in Settings → Language. The Terms and Privacy Policy stay in English, since that's the version that legally applies.
How do I add a friend?
Share the code you picked, or send an invite link. When they tap it, you're connected — no usernames to search for. If you allow contacts access, matching happens on your device against hashed numbers, and nothing is uploaded. Nobody on your list yet? Switch on Local Jab and wave at somebody nearby.
Can I blip a whole group?
Yes. Groups join by their own 5-character code, and one recording reaches everyone in one tap. The group screen shows the latest blip from each member — never a backlog — and the play count tells you who actually heard it. Free accounts can be in one group of six; Blip+ raises that to unlimited groups of twenty, and anyone can spend 75 credits to boost a single group for 14 days.
Is it private?
Yes. Signing in takes Apple, Google, or an email address and a 6-digit code — no password, and your email is never shown to other users. Your recordings are held in private storage and are only made playable for the person or group you sent them to, through a link that expires. Optional contact matching is hashed on your device, so your phone numbers never leave your phone. Location is only involved if you switch Local Jab on, and then only as an area a few miles across — never your coordinates. Blips are latest-only, so there's no history sitting on a server.
Do blips disappear?
You only ever see the latest blip from each friend. Older blips roll off automatically — unless you keep them in the Blip Archive on your own device.
What if someone sends something awful?
Every friend card and every group member has a flag button. Pick a reason, add any detail, and block them in the same step — a blocked person can't send you blips, can't add you with your code and can't reach your notifications. A human reviews every report within 24 hours, and accounts that break the community rules are removed.
Can I delete my account?
Any time, from Settings — one tap removes your account, your invite code, your name, your blips, your friendships and any groups you own, plus the archive on that phone. Nothing to file and nothing to wait for. Your email login stays, so signing in again starts a fresh, empty account.
Coming soon
Almost here.
BlipJab is landing on iPhone & Android soon. Free to use, no ads, no tracking.