Settings.

Every control WrapScribe has, in the order the app shows them.

Documents WrapScribe 1.9.1 · Updated 11 September 2026

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Labels are quoted exactly as they appear on screen, so you can search this page for the words in front of you.

The Settings window

Open Settings with ⌘,, from the menu bar's “Settings…” row, or from the “Settings” row pinned to the bottom of the Dashboard sidebar. The window is 860 × 620 and resizable, and its title is whichever tab you have selected.

The sidebar holds ten tabs in three groups. Dictation: General, Language & Model, Voice & Cleanup, Shortcuts & Input, Overlay & Sound. Features: Meetings, Assistant. System: Account, Permissions, About.

The Settings window — sidebar with the three groups and their ten tabs, General selected, and the App card open on the right.

How to read a control

Each control below is one row: its label in bold exactly as the app writes it, then the kind of control, then its default, then whether the setting follows you to another Mac.

  • Type is one of Switch, Picker, Segmented, Radio, Slider, Text, Button, List, Shortcut, Swatches, Grid or Read-only.
  • Default is what a fresh install shows, printed the way the app prints it. means there is nothing to default.
  • Syncs means the value travels with your account. This Mac means it stays here.

Banners, warnings and recovery blocks are not controls and are described in prose. A section marked Pro needs a Pro or Max licence; Alpha means the feature is still being proved out.

One control row annotated — the label, the type · default · badge line, and the anchor link on the right.

General

The tab opens with the app icon, the name, the version, and a paragraph about how transcription and cleanup fit together. Below it are three cards.

App

Launch WrapScribe at login Switch·matches your Login Items setting·This Mac #
Adds or removes WrapScribe from macOS's login items; the switch reflects what macOS currently says.
Hide the menu bar icon Switch·Off·This Mac #
“Hides WrapScribe from the menu bar completely, including while it records — the recording overlay still shows that. Your shortcuts keep working.”
Keep overlays out of screen recordings Switch·On·This Mac #
Screen recordings, shares and screenshots leave out the recording overlay, the copy card, the meeting pill and the selection panel, while they stay visible to you.
Re-run Setup… Button··This Mac #
“Replays the welcome walkthrough — permissions, overlay choice, shortcuts. Your settings and your data are untouched.”

If you turn “Hide the menu bar icon” on, remember there is no icon left to open the Dashboard from: launch WrapScribe from Applications or Spotlight, then turn it off again here.

The App card — the login switch, the hide switch with its caption, the capture switch, and the Set up again row.

How the menu bar behaves

If the icon disappears

With the icon meant to be showing, the App card offers help. Ordinarily it is one line — “Can't see the icon?” — and a Locate button, which “widens the icon and spells out WrapScribe for a few seconds, so it stands out in a crowded bar”. When the app can prove the icon is not being drawn it adds a warning: “macOS isn't drawing the icon right now — the menu bar is full, or a menu-bar manager is holding it back.” Two likely causes go with that: Ice and Bartender hide newly installed icons by default, and on a MacBook a full menu bar overflows behind the notch.

One cause leaves a record the app can read, and the row then changes completely: “macOS has switched the WrapScribe icon off — from System Settings → Menu Bar, or a ⌘-drag off the bar.” Locate is withheld here — the flash would play into a window macOS never draws — and you get Open Menu Bar Settings instead, with one instruction: ‘Under “Allow in the menu bar”, switch WrapScribe back on — the icon returns immediately.’

If the switch is not in that list, the collapsed Can't find WrapScribe in that list? disclosure opens a short ladder: scroll to the end of the list, look for the process name rather than the app name, then Restart the Menu Bar — “Every menu bar icon will blink out for about a second while macOS rebuilds the bar, then come back”. Copy Diagnostics puts every reading the app can take — “macOS version, bundle id, the process name to hunt for in that list, and macOS's own hide record” — on the clipboard. Whichever way it goes, shortcuts, the overlay and the Dashboard all keep working without the icon.

The recovery block — the orange warning line, Open Menu Bar Settings, and the expanded help with Restart the Menu Bar and Copy Diagnostics.

Updates

Automatically check for updates Switch·On·This Mac #
Checks for a new release once an hour.
Check for Updates Now Button··This Mac #
Runs the check immediately; the label becomes “Checking...” while it works.
Last checked Read-only··This Mac #
The date and time of the last check, shown beside the button once one has happened.

When a release is waiting, this card grows a tinted panel naming the version, with “What's New” and “Update Now”, and it reports download and install progress in place.

How updates arrive

Transcription History

“Every run keeps its transcript on this Mac so you can reread, copy, or retry it.” Deleting them “does not touch your stats — words, dictations, and streaks are counted separately.”

Delete... Button·All transcription history·This Mac #
Deletes the range chosen in the picker beside it — “All transcription history”, “Last 30 days”, “Last 7 days” or “Last 24 hours” — after a confirmation naming the count.
Auto-delete history Picker·Never·This Mac #
“Never”, “After 1 day”, “After 7 days”, “After 30 days” or “After 90 days”; older dictations delete themselves along with any audio saved with them.

History never holds more than the 20 most recent runs, however long the window.

The Transcription History card — the range picker with Delete... beside it, the stored-transcript count, and the Auto-delete history row.

History and recovery

Language & Model

Languages You Speak

Languages You Speak List·Detect automatically·This Mac #
The languages you have picked, each a chip with a ✕ to remove it; with none picked the card reads “Detect automatically”.
Add language Button··This Mac #
A menu of every language the installed engines can handle, minus the ones you already picked.
Detect automatically Button··This Mac #
Clears the list, so “The model works out which language you spoke, each time.”

The line under the card changes with your choice. With one language, it “is used for every dictation” — the most accurate option when you only speak one. With several: the model detects which one you used per dictation, and “Apple Speech can only handle one language at a time, so it cannot do this.”

Languages and engines

Speech Model

Five rows, each a radio button with a summary, Speed and Accuracy out of five, and the engine's real name and download size in small type.

Built into macOS Radio·selected·This Mac #
Apple Speech, “No download, and the fastest to start.” Speed 5, accuracy 3.
Smallest download Radio··This Mac #
Whisper Base, 145 MB: “Quick and light, but rough on accents, names and anything noisy.” Speed 5, accuracy 2.
Balanced Radio··This Mac #
Whisper Small, 483 MB: “Good enough for everyday dictation, in almost any language.” Speed 4, accuracy 3.
Most accurate Radio··This Mac #
Whisper Large v3 Turbo, 1.6 GB: “Worth the wait for strong accents, hard audio and Indic languages.” Speed 2, accuracy 5.
Fastest Radio··This Mac #
Parakeet TDT v3, 483 MB: “Keeps up while you talk, with a live preview. 25 European languages.” Speed 5, accuracy 4.

Each row's button reads “Use” when the model is on disk and “Download & Use” when it is not. A downloaded model wears a “Downloaded” tag and gains a trash button; one that fits your languages wears “Covers your languages”; Parakeet TDT v3 wears a “Recommended” tag on Apple silicon when it covers every language you chose (with no language chosen, a caption under the row reads “Recommended for English and 24 European languages”); one that cannot handle a language you picked stays in the list and names what it would drop.

When the selected engine cannot do the job a banner sits above the list — “‹Engine› can't handle the languages you selected.” — offering “Switch” or “Download” for the best row that can. The engine choice is per Mac; it never syncs.

The Speech Model list — five radio rows with persona titles, star ratings and sizes, one mid-download, and the mismatch banner above.

Recommended for every use case: “Fastest” — Parakeet. Press “Download & Use” once, 483 MB, and keep it selected: it shares the top speed rating, is the only model at that speed with 4/5 accuracy — second only to the 1.6 GB Whisper Large v3 Turbo — and previews your words live. Choose a Whisper model only for a language Parakeet does not cover.

Downloads

Downloaded models Read-only··This Mac #
How much disk the downloaded models are using. “Models are stored in Application Support and never leave this Mac.”
Delete All Downloaded Models Button··This Mac #
Removes every downloaded engine at once; each one downloads again the next time you use it.

Voice & Cleanup

Transcription

Transcription Language Picker·Auto (System Language)·This Mac #
The locale Apple's on-device model transcribes in. “Auto uses your system language. For a language that isn't listed, see Language & Model.”
Download Button··This Mac #
Appears when the assets for the chosen language are missing; the row beside it reports the install state and download progress.

With a downloadable engine selected, this card steps aside and points you to Language & Model instead, so it never describes a model that is not being used.

Cleanup

Cleanup Mode Segmented·Smart·Syncs #
Three ways to finish a dictation, from a full tidy-up to your words untouched.

“Smart” — “Removes fillers, resolves corrections, and improves punctuation using on-device intelligence.” “Basic” — “Instant deterministic cleanup for fillers, stutters, repeated words, and spacing.” “Exact” — “Preserves the words you spoke, with only the minimum formatting needed for insertion.”

Enable Apple Intelligence… Button··This Mac #
Only shown when Apple Intelligence is off; opens System Settings → Apple Intelligence & Siri.

In Smart mode the card reports the model's state: “Apple Intelligence is ready”, or “Apple Intelligence is turned off — Smart Cleanup is using Basic fallback.” Turning it on upgrades cleanup automatically, with no relaunch.

What cleanup does, in order

Output Language

Language Picker·Same as spoken·This Mac #
“Smart cleanup translates the final text into this language. Exact mode always keeps the spoken language.”

The list runs English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Hinglish, Gujarati and Gujlish.

Writing Style

“How Smart Cleanup punctuates and polishes your words in each kind of app. Your wording and meaning are never changed; code and terminal apps always stay technical.”

Email Segmented·Balanced·This Mac #
Casual, Balanced or Formal for mail clients.
Work chat Segmented·Balanced·This Mac #
The register for Slack, Teams and their kin.
Personal chat Segmented·Balanced·This Mac #
The register for Messages and other casual chat.
Documents Segmented·Balanced·This Mac #
The register for writing apps and note-takers.
Everything else Segmented·Balanced·This Mac #
The fallback for any app the four above do not cover.
The Writing Style card — five labelled rows, each with a Casual / Balanced / Formal segmented control set to Balanced.

Per-app writing styles

Emoji

Emoji Picker·Never·Syncs #
“Never”, “Only when I say them”, or “When I say them, and where they fit”.

Say “thumbs up” to get 👍; everyday words like “fire” only become emoji when you say “fire emoji”.

Cleanup Instructions

Cleanup Instructions Text·Using the built-in defaults·This Mac #
“Tell Smart cleanup how you write. You can name trigger words, formatting preferences, or terms that must stay unchanged.”

The placeholder shows the shape: “Example: When I say ‘action item’, format the following sentence as a checkbox.”

Reset Button··This Mac #
Clears the box and goes back to the built-in instructions.

App Context

App Context Text·Using the built-in defaults·This Mac #
“Optional hints for using the active app, window title, and selected text to choose the right wording. Context remains on this Mac.”

Safety

Dictated prompts are always treated as text Read-only··This Mac #
“Treats dictated text as content to clean, never as a request for the model to answer.”

Automatic Learning

Learn words I use often Switch·On·This Mac #
“WrapScribe notices likely names and uncommon terms over time.”

“New words start as suggestions and become active after they appear in three successful dictations”; you can add, dismiss, disable or remove them at any time.

The Dictionary tab

Exact Corrections

Exact Corrections Text··This Mac #
“For words speech consistently hears the wrong way, add one replacement per line” using “heard → wanted”. The example given is “Example: mega phone → WrapScribe”.
Learned from your edits, applied automatically List··This Mac #
Pairs WrapScribe picked up from fixes you made by hand; “Add” keeps a suggestion, “Dismiss” drops it, and a trash button stops an active one.

Unlike the Dictionary, these are real replacements, and they run before the model rather than as a hint to it.

The Exact Corrections card — the replacements editor, the example line, and two learned pairs with Add and Dismiss.

Shortcuts & Input

Banners you may see

Three banners can appear above the cards on this tab, and each one is about something that is currently broken.

Accessibility permission was lost — likely after an update. Re-grant it to restore pasting. “macOS ties Accessibility to the exact app it granted, so replacing WrapScribe on disk can quietly revoke it.” Two buttons: “Re-grant Accessibility” and “Re-check”.

Shortcuts aren't working. “WrapScribe needs Accessibility permission to capture your dictation shortcuts (and, on some Macs, Input Monitoring). Turn WrapScribe on there, then click Re-check — no relaunch needed.” Three buttons: “Open Accessibility”, “Open Input Monitoring” and “Re-check”.

The Fn (🌐) key opens the emoji picker. Shown when a dictation shortcut uses Fn and macOS is set to open Emoji & Symbols on that key, which steals it first. “Fix the Globe key” sets “Press 🌐 to” to “Do Nothing” — effective after you log out and back in — and “Open Keyboard Settings” takes you there by hand.

The Globe-key banner — orange headline, the explanation, and the Fix the Globe key and Open Keyboard Settings buttons.

Dictation Shortcuts

“Click a shortcut to record any key or combination. Push-to-talk records while you hold it; hands-free toggles recording on and off.”

Push to talk Shortcut·Fn·Syncs #
“Hold to say something short”.
Hands-free mode Shortcut·Cmd ⌘ + Fn·Syncs #
“Dictate hands-free — press to start and stop”.
Paste again Shortcut·Add shortcut·Syncs #
“Re-insert your last dictation at the cursor”. Ships unbound, which is why the row shows a dashed “Add shortcut” chip.
Cancel Shortcut·Esc·Syncs #
“Stop dictating without pasting”. This one cannot be disabled — it can only be moved to another regular key, and “Reset to Esc” brings it back.

Each row's “…” menu holds Presets and more options: “Record Shortcut…”, the three presets “Fn 🌐”, “Right Option ⌥” and “F5”, the last custom binding you used, and “Disable”. While a row is recording it shows a red dot and “Recording…”, and “Press Esc or Return to save.”

Four shortcut rows — Push to talk showing an Fn key-cap, Hands-free with two caps, Paste again with a dashed Add shortcut chip, and Cancel showing Esc.

Starting and stopping a dictation

Shortcut delays

Two sliders at the foot of the Dictation Shortcuts card.

Shortcut Start Delay Slider·0 ms·Syncs #
0–500 ms. “Waits this long before recording starts, for both hold and tap shortcuts.”
Shortcut Stop Delay Slider·0 ms·Syncs #
0–1000 ms. “Keeps listening for this long after you stop”, catching the last word or two; “around 200–300 ms is usually enough.”

Mouse Dictation

Enable mouse dictation Switch·Off·This Mac #
“Hold the bound mouse button to dictate and release to stop — push-to-talk for the extra buttons on MMO mice and trackballs.”
Change… Button·Button 4·This Mac #
Arms capture, then binds whichever button you press. “Middle and side buttons only — left and right clicks keep working normally.”

While a button is bound, its clicks are swallowed so they never press anything under the cursor.

Ask WrapScribe Alpha

Enable Ask WrapScribe Switch·On·This Mac #
The master switch; the three rows below it are dimmed and inert when it is off.
“Hey WrapScribe” Read-only·Always on·This Mac #
The full trigger phrase, which cannot be turned off while the feature is on.
Also use “WrapScribe” Switch·Off·This Mac #
Accepts the shorter trigger as well.
Use on-screen text as context Switch·On·This Mac #
Lets requests like “reply to this email” read the visible window, “entirely on-device — via accessibility, or a window snapshot when Screen Recording is already granted.”

What you can ask for

Edit Mode

Enable Edit Mode Switch·Off·This Mac #
“Transform highlighted text with a spoken instruction instead of dictating over it.”
Invocation Style Segmented·Automatic·This Mac #
“Automatic” — “When text is selected, your normal dictation shortcut applies the spoken instruction to it.” “Manual” — dictation is untouched and one extra modifier does the job.
Extra Modifier Picker·Option ⌥·This Mac #
“Cmd ⌘”, “Ctrl ⌃”, “Option ⌥” or “Shift ⇧”, shown only in Manual style; a modifier that collides with a shortcut is refused with a reason.

Rewriting by voice

Clipboard

Preserve clipboard after paste Switch·On·This Mac #
WrapScribe “will temporarily place the transcript on your clipboard to paste it, then restore whatever was there before.”
Keep dictations in clipboard history Switch·Off·This Mac #
“When on, your clipboard manager (Paste, Raycast, Maccy, etc.) records each dictation”; when off, dictations are marked transient and skipped.
Say "press enter" to submit after paste Switch·On·This Mac #
Removes those words before cleanup, pastes the rest, then presses Return.
“Scratch that” deletes the last dictation Switch·On·This Mac #
Deletes the dictation just pasted “as long as that text still sits right before your cursor.”

Spoken commands

Apps That Always Receive Paste

Apps That Always Receive Paste List·empty·This Mac #
Apps that “skip that check and always receive the paste”; each row has Remove, which goes “back to checking for a focused text field in this app.”

There is no “Add App…” button by design. The list is fed one click at a time from the copy card's “Always paste in ‹App›” offer, which only appears after a dictation has actually failed in that app.

The copy card

Voice Macros

Add Macro Button··This Mac #
Opens an editor with a “Voice Command (What you say)” and the “Text (What gets pasted)”; each saved macro gets an Edit and a Delete on its row.

Macros “Bypass post-processing and immediately paste your predefined text.”

Voice Macros

Overlay & Sound

Recording Overlay

Two styles, one list. The chosen one gets its own options directly underneath, and the three rows at the bottom of the card apply to both.

Recording Overlay Radio·Floating pill·Syncs #
Two styles, and only two: the “Minimalist menu-bar band” and the “Floating pill”.

The band is “A slim band beside the notch showing just the waveform. Never covers your app's toolbar.” The pill is “A capsule you can anchor anywhere on screen. Live waveform; discard and finish appear on hover.”

If you pick the band, one option appears:

Accent color Swatches·Green·Syncs #
Seven colours — White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange, Pink, Teal — tinting the waveform and labels.

If you pick the pill, three appear:

Pill finish Segmented·Glass·This Mac #
“Glass gives the pill a lit edge and a soft sheen. Classic is the flat fill. Same size either way.”

With Reduce Transparency on in System Settings the pill uses Classic whatever is picked here, and your choice is remembered for when you turn it off.

Pill transparency Slider·0%·This Mac #
Solid at the left, Airy at the right; it “Lets the desktop through the pill, the copy card and the meeting widget”.

The slider stops short of the point where white text on the plate would get hard to read, so illegible is not one of the choices.

Pill position Grid·Bottom center·Syncs #
A 3 × 3 grid of screen anchors: Top left, Top center, Top right, Middle left, Center, Middle right, Bottom left, Bottom center, Bottom right.
Record with the menu bar only Switch·Off·This Mac #
“While you dictate, nothing appears on screen — no pill, no island.”

“The menu bar icon does the whole job: a red dot, a running timer, and Stop Dictation in its menu.” Transcribing, the copy card and the recovery hint still use the style you picked above. Turn this on with “Hide the menu bar icon” also on and a warning appears: “The menu bar icon is hidden, so recording has no visible indicator at all. The sounds still play.”

Show words as you speak Switch·Off·Syncs #
“The overlay shows the transcript as it is recognised.”

Even so, “The pasted text is still the finished transcript, not what you see here.” The band has no room for a line of text and says so.

Show on Picker·Active window (default)·This Mac #
“Primary display” or a named display pins the overlay instead of letting it follow focus across monitors.
The Recording Overlay card — the two style rows with the pill selected, the pill's finish and transparency controls, and the 3 × 3 position grid set to Bottom center.

The overlay during a dictation

Audio During Dictation

Mute audio when dictation starts Switch·Off·This Mac #
“WrapScribe restores the audio state it changed when dictation ends.”

Sound Volume

Play alert sounds Switch·On·This Mac #
The master switch for every cue below, and for the two meeting sounds on the Meetings tab.
Sound Volume Slider·50%·Syncs #
How loud the cues play, independent of system volume.
Preview Button··This Mac #
Plays the start sound. If the Mac is silent it adds a hint: “System volume is muted or very low. Unmute to hear the preview.”
Recording start Picker·Pop·Syncs #
Plays the moment recording begins.
Recording stop Picker·None·Syncs #
Silent by default, so the start cue stays unambiguous.
Transcription complete Picker·Blow·This Mac #
Plays when the finished text is ready.
Error Picker·Basso·Syncs #
Plays when a dictation fails.
Transform done Picker·Pop·This Mac #
Plays when a transform or a selection rewrite lands.

Every picker offers “None” plus the stock macOS alert sounds: Basso, Blow, Bottle, Frog, Funk, Glass, Hero, Morse, Ping, Pop, Purr, Sosumi, Submarine, Tink. A ▶ button beside each one previews it.

The Sound Volume card — the alert switch, the volume slider at 50%, a Preview button, and five event rows with their sound pickers.

Meetings Pro

On Basic the whole pane is the locked card: the sounds and the audio permission belong to the recorder, and offering them beside a locked recorder would be three switches that do nothing.

Meeting Notes

Detect meetings and offer to record Switch·On·Syncs #
“When a Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, or Webex call is active, WrapScribe shows a small prompt to start recording. Recording never starts on its own.”
Offer to record as soon as I open a meeting Switch·On·Syncs #
Off, “the prompt waits until the microphone actually goes live”, and never arrives at all if you stay muted.
System audio to capture Radio·Meeting app audio only·Syncs #
“Meeting app audio only” — “Capture only the meeting app or browser carrying the call.” “All system audio” — “Capture everything the Mac plays while recording (except WrapScribe itself).”

“Your recordings, transcripts, and notes never leave this Mac.”

The Meeting Notes card — the two detection switches, the two audio-scope radio buttons, and the on-device line beneath.

How a meeting is noticed

Sounds

Meeting start Picker·Bottle·This Mac #
Plays when a meeting recording begins.
Meeting stop Picker·Tink·This Mac #
Plays when it ends. “Set either to None to record silently. Both are short by design — they play while a call is in progress.”

Both rows dim when “Play alert sounds” is off in Overlay & Sound, and the card says so.

System Audio Recording

Open System Settings Button··This Mac #
Opens Privacy & Security → Audio Recording. The permission is “Required to capture the other participants — without it a recording keeps only your own microphone.”

“macOS asks for this once, the first time a meeting recording starts.” There is no status to read here: macOS exposes no cheap way to check the grant, and claiming “Granted” from a value the app cannot see would be worse than saying nothing.

Assistant Pro

Selection Assistant

Show the assistant button when text is selected Switch·Off·Syncs #
“Select text in any app to get Grammar, Polish, Translate, custom rewrites, and a chat about the selection — all on-device.”

“Apps that don't expose selected text over Accessibility won't show the button.”

The selection assistant

Translation

Translation Read-only··This Mac #
“Translation runs on-device with Apple's translation models.”

“The first use of a new language may ask to download it — macOS shows a one-time prompt.” Pick the target from the assistant's Translate row; “unsupported pairs fall back to the on-device language model.”

Account

Your plan

The pane opens with a card naming your plan and the Macs it covers: “Pro — up to 3 Macs”, “Basic — 1 Mac” or “Max — every Mac you own”, with the account's email under it. On Basic it also lists what Pro adds — “In Pro: Meeting recording · Selection assistant · Transforms · Per-app writing styles” — and offers a quiet Upgrade to Pro link.

There is no seat screen anywhere in the app. Seats are counted on the server, and you free a Mac by signing out on it — Sign Out, below.

The plan banner on Basic — the seal glyph, “Basic — 1 Mac”, the account email, the In Pro line, and an Upgrade to Pro link.

Plans

Activating this Mac

Until this Mac is activated the pane is the activation form: “Paste the licence key from your account. Your dictations stay on this Mac — the account carries daily counts and preferences, nothing you said.”

WS-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX Text··This Mac #
The one field, which takes a licence key or an AppSumo code; “Activate” submits it and “Get a licence key” opens wrapscribe.com.
Redeem & Activate Button··This Mac #
Replaces “Activate” as soon as an AppSumo code is recognised, along with a “Where should we send your licence key?” field.

Codes go in the same box, “one per line”. After a redemption the issued key is shown with a “Copy” button, emailed to the address you gave, and a “Send again” link stands by.

Restored from backup

This section only appears when WrapScribe put your data back by itself, which it does when this account's stores come up empty at launch. The note explains where the copies live: “WrapScribe keeps a week of daily copies of your dictionary, snippets and stats in Application Support → WrapScribe → accounts → your account → Backups, and puts them back if this account ever comes up empty here.”

Backups

Account

Licence Read-only·Active·This Mac #
Says whether this Mac currently holds a valid licence.

Sync

Last sync Read-only·Not yet·This Mac #
When the account last exchanged counts and preferences.
Sync Now Button··This Mac #
Runs an exchange immediately; the label becomes “Syncing…” while it works.

“Syncs your word and dictation counts plus your preferences, so a new Mac starts out like this one. Sync Now also refreshes your plan — if a code you just redeemed hasn't shown up within a minute, this is the button. Your dictation history stays here, and transcripts, audio and your dictionary never leave this Mac.”

Sign Out

Sign Out Button··This Mac #
“Signing out locks WrapScribe on this Mac until you activate again.”

“Your history, meetings, dictionary, snippets, word counts and streaks all belong to the account: they leave with it and come straight back when it signs in here again.”

Permissions

Microphone

System Default List·System Default·This Mac #
“Select which microphone to use for recording.”

The System Default row names the device it currently resolves to, and every connected input is listed under it. A chosen device that is unplugged raises a warning: “Your chosen microphone isn't connected.”

Switch to microphones when I plug them in Switch·On·This Mac #
“Connect a headset and WrapScribe starts using it. Virtual devices from other apps — Teams, Zoom, Loopback — are never picked automatically.”

Permissions

Microphone Button·Grant Access·This Mac #
Raises the system prompt; the row shows “Granted” with a green check once it is given.
Accessibility Button·Grant Access·This Mac #
Opens System Settings at Privacy & Security → Accessibility. Without it, nothing can be typed at your cursor.
Input Monitoring Read-only··This Mac #
“Required on some Macs so global shortcuts can see key presses.” macOS gives no readable status for it, so this row is a note rather than a state.
Open Accessibility Button··This Mac #
Jumps straight to that pane in System Settings.
Open Input Monitoring Button··This Mac #
Jumps straight to that pane in System Settings.

“Global dictation shortcuts — including the Fn (🌐) key — need Accessibility. On some Macs, capturing certain keys also needs Input Monitoring. If a shortcut ever stops firing, re-check both here.”

The Permissions card — Microphone granted, Accessibility offering Grant Access, and the Input Monitoring note below.

About

The tab shows the app icon, the name, “On-device dictation for macOS. Your voice and words stay on this Mac.”, and the version with its build tag in brackets.

Build number Read-only··This Mac #
The exact build this copy came from, selectable so you can read it back to support.
Copy Button··This Mac #
Puts the app name, version, build, macOS version and architecture on the clipboard in one block; the label becomes “Copied” for a moment.

What syncs across your Macs

Your account carries daily word and dictation counts from every Mac — there is no opt-out for those — plus the settings in the left column. Everything in the right column is decided on each Mac separately. Nothing you said ever travels: not transcripts, not audio, not your dictionary.

Two pairs are worth reading twice. Among the sounds, “Recording start”, “Recording stop” and “Error” travel while “Transcription complete”, “Transform done”, “Meeting start” and “Meeting stop” do not — and the volume travels while the mute switch does not. Among the overlay settings, the style, the accent colour and the pill's position travel while the pill's finish and transparency stay put.

Every control, A–Z

Every quoted control label on this page, alphabetised, with the five Speech Model rows grouped at the end in the order the app lists them.

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Need a hand?

Email support@wrapscribe.com — a person answers, and your issue is typically fixed within 24 hours.