Clabrate’s Settings are a sidebar of sections, gathered into five groups. Here’s what each one is for, so you can find the right place fast.
Screenshot pending: settings-overview.png
Start by searching
Above the sidebar there’s a Find any setting… box. Type what you’re after in your own words — “mic”, “key”, “brain”, “pet” — and the groups collapse into a flat list of matching places. It searches each section’s description and its alternate names, not just its title, so you don’t have to guess what we called something.
If you know where you’re going, browse the groups instead.
The groups
Your setup
| Section | What’s here |
|---|---|
| Privacy & setup | What Clabrate can see, history capture, onboarding, and updates — see History & insights |
Keys
| Section | What’s here |
|---|---|
| Keys | Dictate, Ask, Esc, and every other shortcut in one place — see Customizing shortcuts |
Voice
| Section | What’s here |
|---|---|
| Speak & type | How your speech becomes text — silence handling, tidy style, and where words land — see Dictation basics |
| Microphone | Which mic Clabrate listens to, warm-up, and quieting other audio while you talk — see Microphone & audio |
| Speak back | Let Clabrate read answers aloud on this Mac |
Brain
| Section | What’s here |
|---|---|
| Tidy style | How much Clabrate cleans up what you said before it lands — see AI enhancement |
| Per app style | Use a different tidy style in Mail, your editor, Messages, and so on — the per-app override of the setting above |
| Assistant | The assistant you talk to, and the key that summons it — see Using the assistant |
| Brain & models | On this Mac or in the cloud — keys, models, and profiles — see Models & providers |
Everything else
| Section | What’s here |
|---|---|
| Add-ons | Install tools and decide what they’re allowed to touch — including Sticky, Terminals and Pane Snap for the boards overlay. Why every tool asks first: Features should knock first |
| Spellings | Names and jargon Clabrate should stop “correcting” — see Words & vocabulary |
| Your docs | Notes and files the assistant can answer from — indexed on this Mac |
| Look & HUD | Theme and the floating window — see The menu bar & HUD |
| Companion | Spot, the little creature who roams your screen — see Spot, your desktop companion |
| Window layouts | Snap windows into halves, thirds, and saved arrangements |
| Developer | Hidden by default — debug logging and support-log export |
Some sections only appear when they apply. Window layouts and other add-on-backed sections stay hidden until you turn their add-on on in Add-ons, and Developer stays hidden until you unlock it.
The hidden Developer page
The Developer section is hidden until you unlock it: tap the version pill 5 times. It offers one-shot debug logging and a redacted support-log export (which never includes your keys or transcripts) to help with support requests.
Common questions
Where do I change the dictation key? Keys — not Speak & type. (Speak & type holds hold/tap and mode settings.)
Where’s dark mode? Look & HUD → Theme. System is the default; Light, Dark and Paper are explicit choices.
How do I turn off history? Privacy & setup — see History & insights.
Where are the pet settings? Companion, under Everything else — see Spot, your desktop companion.
I don’t see Developer. It’s hidden until you tap the version pill five times.
Where did “Contextual enhancement” go? It’s Per app style, now sitting under Brain next to Tidy style — it decides which tidy style applies in which app. Searching for “contextual” still finds it.
The section names look different to a video I watched. They were renamed to say what they do rather than what they’re called internally — “Audio” became Microphone, “Providers & Models” became Brain & models, and so on. Searching still finds them under the old names.