diff --git a/services/booth/README.md b/services/booth/README.md
index 79653be..693f0ca 100644
--- a/services/booth/README.md
+++ b/services/booth/README.md
@@ -52,7 +52,17 @@ booth blur   <name> <file>...     # hide from a glance
 booth unblur <name> <file>...
 ```
 
-Or the ◌ / ◉ toggle in each item's caption row on the booth page.
+Or the **`◌ blur` / `◉ blurred`** button on every item in the booth page —
+in the caption row for images, video, audio and plain files, and in the doc bar
+beside ⤢ ⬇ ✕ for inline docs.
+
+⚠ The toggle is emitted by ONE Jinja macro (`blurtoggle`) called from all three
+item branches. booth.html renders docs, media and everything-else through
+separate `<figure>` blocks, and this feature was twice shipped having patched
+only some of them — first the blur class, then the toggle itself. Add a fourth
+branch and you must call the macro from it;
+`test_every_item_kind_gets_exactly_one_blur_toggle` counts toggles against
+figures across mixed kinds and will fail if you don't.
 
 - **State** is `.blurred` in the booth dir — one booth-relative item path per
   line, the same filesystem-is-the-state idiom as `.pins` and `.forever`. An
diff --git a/services/booth/booth/templates/base.html b/services/booth/booth/templates/base.html
index 021014a..5b77584 100644
--- a/services/booth/booth/templates/base.html
+++ b/services/booth/booth/templates/base.html
@@ -270,10 +270,17 @@
     font:inherit;font-size:.72rem;line-height:1;padding:.24rem .5rem;cursor:pointer;
     border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:.3rem;background:var(--bg);color:var(--fg)}
   .item.blurred .reveal:hover{background:var(--aus-blue);color:var(--fg-on-accent)}
-  .blurtoggle{display:inline;margin:0}
-  .blurtoggle button{font:inherit;font-size:.78rem;line-height:1;padding:0 .2rem;
-    cursor:pointer;border:0;background:none;color:var(--muted)}
-  .blurtoggle button:hover{color:var(--fg)}
+  /* Legible on purpose. v1 was a bare muted glyph with no border and no label,
+     and the operator's reaction to it was "no UI option to blur/unblur?" — a
+     control nobody can find is a control that is not there. */
+  .blurtoggle{display:inline-block;margin:0}
+  .blurtoggle button{font:inherit;font-size:.7rem;line-height:1;padding:.2rem .4rem;
+    cursor:pointer;border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:.3rem;
+    background:var(--bg);color:var(--fg);white-space:nowrap}
+  .blurtoggle button:hover{background:var(--aus-blue);color:var(--fg-on-accent)}
+  /* In the doc bar it sits beside ⤢ ⬇ ✕ and should not out-shout them. */
+  .doc-bar .blurtoggle{margin-left:.35rem}
+  .doc-bar .blurtoggle button{font-size:.66rem;padding:.14rem .34rem}
   /* Cover thumbs on the index inherit the blur so the front page cannot undo it. */
   .blurred-thumb{filter:blur(16px)}
   /* opaque dark control-scrim + always-light glyph — legible over any thumbnail
diff --git a/services/booth/booth/templates/booth.html b/services/booth/booth/templates/booth.html
index 6a6b36b..9830a0f 100644
--- a/services/booth/booth/templates/booth.html
+++ b/services/booth/booth/templates/booth.html
@@ -1,4 +1,18 @@
 {% extends "base.html" %}
+{# The blur toggle, defined ONCE. There are three item branches in this file
+   (doc / media / other) and the first cut of this feature patched only one of
+   them, so docs rendered with no control at all. A macro makes "patched two of
+   three" impossible rather than merely unlikely. #}
+{% macro blurtoggle(name_url, it, cls='') -%}
+  <form class="blurtoggle {{ cls }}" method="post" action="/b/{{ name_url }}/blur">
+    <input type="hidden" name="f" value="{{ it.name }}">
+    <input type="hidden" name="on" value="{{ '0' if it.blurred else '1' }}">
+    <button title="{{ 'un-blur this item' if it.blurred else 'blur this item — cosmetic only, the file is still served' }}"
+            aria-label="{{ 'un-blur' if it.blurred else 'blur' }} {{ it.name }}"
+            >{{ '◉ blurred' if it.blurred else '◌ blur' }}</button>
+  </form>
+{%- endmacro %}
+
 {% block title %}{{ name }} · The Booth{% endblock %}
 {% block content %}
 <div class="boothhead">
@@ -109,6 +123,7 @@
             <span class="doc-spacer"></span>
             <a class="doc-act" href="view?f={{ it.url }}" title="open full page">⤢</a>
             <a class="doc-act" href="{{ it.url }}" download title="download {{ it.name }}">⬇</a>
+            {{ blurtoggle(name_url, it, 'doc-act') }}
             <button type="button" class="doc-act doc-close" title="close (hide for now)" aria-label="close">✕</button>
           </summary>
           {% if it.rendered_html %}
@@ -142,17 +157,17 @@
         <a class="dl" href="{{ it.url }}" download>⬇ {{ it.name }}</a>
       {% endif %}
       {% if it.kind == 'other' %}
-        {% if it.caption %}<figcaption><span class="cap-text">{{ it.caption }}</span></figcaption>{% endif %}
+        {# Always render the caption row now: it carries the blur toggle, and
+           "no caption" is not a reason to deny an item its controls. #}
+        <figcaption>
+          {% if it.caption %}<span class="cap-text">{{ it.caption }}</span>{% endif %}
+          {{ blurtoggle(name_url, it) }}
+        </figcaption>
       {% else %}
         <figcaption>
           <a class="dl-link" href="{{ it.url }}" download title="download {{ it.name }}">⬇</a>
           <span class="cap-text">{{ it.caption or it.name }}</span>
-          <form class="blurtoggle" method="post" action="/b/{{ name_url }}/blur">
-            <input type="hidden" name="f" value="{{ it.name }}">
-            <input type="hidden" name="on" value="{{ '0' if it.blurred else '1' }}">
-            <button title="{{ 'un-blur this item' if it.blurred else 'blur this item (cosmetic only — the file is still served)' }}"
-                    aria-label="{{ 'un-blur' if it.blurred else 'blur' }} {{ it.name }}">{{ '◉' if it.blurred else '◌' }}</button>
-          </form>
+          {{ blurtoggle(name_url, it) }}
         </figcaption>
       {% endif %}
     </figure>
@@ -200,6 +215,10 @@
      "collapse". Collapse stays available via the rest of the summary bar. With
      JS off the button is inert and collapse via <details> still works. */
   (function () {
+    /* A form inside <summary> would otherwise collapse the doc on submit. */
+    document.querySelectorAll('.doc-bar .blurtoggle').forEach(function (f) {
+      f.addEventListener('click', function (ev) { ev.stopPropagation(); });
+    });
     document.querySelectorAll('.doc-close').forEach(function (btn) {
       btn.addEventListener('click', function (ev) {
         ev.preventDefault();
diff --git a/services/booth/tests/test_booth.py b/services/booth/tests/test_booth.py
index 0945922..ecc89e4 100644
--- a/services/booth/tests/test_booth.py
+++ b/services/booth/tests/test_booth.py
@@ -1447,3 +1447,43 @@ def test_blur_applies_to_inline_docs_not_just_images(client):
     assert body.count('<figure class="item item-doc blurred"') == 1, (
         "exactly the blurred doc, not every doc"
     )
+
+
+def test_every_item_kind_gets_exactly_one_blur_toggle(client):
+    """The regression guard for this whole feature's recurring bug.
+
+    booth.html has THREE item branches — doc, media, other — and each pass at
+    this feature patched some and missed others: first the blurred class landed
+    on media only, then the toggle landed on media only and the operator asked
+    "no UI option to blur/unblur?". A count assertion across mixed kinds is the
+    check that actually catches it; a spot check on one item never will.
+    """
+    c, root = client
+    d = root / "bo"
+    d.mkdir()
+    (d / "note.txt").write_text("doc branch")       # -> item-doc
+    _png(d / "pic.png")                              # -> item-image
+    (d / "blob.bin").write_bytes(b"\x00\x01binary")  # -> item-other
+
+    body = c.get("/b/bo/").text
+    figures = body.count('<figure class="item item-')
+    toggles = body.count('class="blurtoggle')
+    assert figures == 3, f"expected all three kinds to render, got {figures}"
+    assert toggles == figures, (
+        f"{figures} items but {toggles} blur toggles — a branch was missed again"
+    )
+
+
+def test_blur_toggle_posts_the_opposite_state(client):
+    """The button must flip, not just set. A toggle hard-coded to on=1 looks
+    identical in the markup and silently cannot un-blur."""
+    c, root = client
+    d = root / "bo"
+    d.mkdir()
+    _png(d / "pic.png")
+
+    assert 'name="on" value="1"' in c.get("/b/bo/").text
+    set_blurred(d, "pic.png", True)
+    body = c.get("/b/bo/").text
+    assert 'name="on" value="0"' in body, "a blurred item must offer un-blur"
+    assert "◉ blurred" in body