Where every setting lives

OpenWhispr’s settings are grouped into nine sections. This page is the map, so you can go straight to the one you want instead of hunting. Open Settings from the sidebar.

The nine sections

Group	Section	Holds
Account	Account	Profile and sign-in
Account	Plans & Billing	Plans, usage and billing
Account	Workspace	Members, team spaces and API keys
App	Preferences	Appearance, sounds and startup
App	Hotkeys	Dictation hotkey and activation
AI Models	Speech-to-Text	Engines for dictation and note recording
AI Models	Language Models	Models for chat, cleanup and summaries
System	Privacy & Data	Privacy, permissions and analytics
System	System	Updates, storage and developer tools

The two sections with tabs

These are where people most often look in the right section and still not find the setting — because it’s on a tab they didn’t switch to. Speech-to-Text has three tabs, and each keeps its own engine choice:

Tab	Controls
Dictation	The engine used when you dictate
Note Recording	The engine used for meetings
Audio Upload	The engine used for uploaded files

Changing one changes only that one. “Switch to local” is not a single setting — see record a meeting for the meetings case and cloud vs local for the choice itself. Language Models has five tabs: Dictation Cleanup, Voice Agent, Note Formatting, Chat and Translation — again each with its own model choice.

What’s inside Preferences

Preferences is the longest section, and it renders in this order:

Group	Holds
Appearance	Theme — Light, Dark or Auto
Sound Effects	Dictation sounds, Pause media
Notifications	Meeting detection, calendar reminders, app updates, and Disable all notifications
Clipboard	Automatic pasting, Keep transcription in clipboard
Save notes as files	The Markdown mirror, its location, and Rebuild all files
Floating Icon	Auto-hide when idle, Start position
Language	Interface language, Transcription language
Startup	Launch at login (macOS and Windows only), Start minimized
Microphone	Input Device, Prefer Built-in Microphone
Auto-learn from corrections	Learning from your edits

Running in the background covers what the appearance, sound, floating-icon and startup settings actually do.

What’s inside Privacy & Data and System

Section	Also holds
Privacy & Data	Usage analytics (off by default), Cloud backup and its status lines, Audio Retention — including a Disabled option — and the Permissions block
System	Updates with Current version, Debug Logging and what gets logged, and Data Management — Model cache (Open, Clear cache) and Reset app data

Things that aren’t where you’d guess

A short list of the ones that catch people out:

Setting	Where it actually is
Meeting Mode Hotkey	Hotkeys — with the dictation, translation, voice agent and chat agent shortcuts
Save notes as files	Preferences
Auto-learn from corrections	Preferences
Input Device (microphone)	Preferences
Meeting detection and Calendar reminders notifications	Preferences, under Notifications
Cloud backup	Privacy & Data
Audio Retention and Transcript Retention	Privacy & Data
Permissions	A block inside Privacy & Data, not its own section
Debug Logging	System
Current version	System, under Updates
Identify and label speakers	Speech-to-Text → Note Recording tab, under the engine list — there is no “Meetings” section

Things that aren’t in Settings at all

What	Where
Custom dictionary and snippets	Dictionary in the sidebar
Google Calendar, API keys, MCP, CLI	Integrations in the sidebar
Speaker identification for one recording	The pill on the meeting transcript itself — the global default is in Settings, above

Getting started

Dictation

AI agent & commands

Meetings

Notes, search & sync

Customising

Models & processing

Platforms & compatibility

Account & billing

Privacy, security & compliance

Troubleshooting

Where every setting lives

The nine sections

The two sections with tabs

What’s inside Preferences

What’s inside Privacy & Data and System

Things that aren’t where you’d guess

Things that aren’t in Settings at all

​The nine sections

​The two sections with tabs

​What’s inside Preferences

​What’s inside Privacy & Data and System

​Things that aren’t where you’d guess

​Things that aren’t in Settings at all

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The nine sections

The two sections with tabs

What’s inside Preferences

What’s inside Privacy & Data and System

Things that aren’t where you’d guess

Things that aren’t in Settings at all

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