MacParsleySettings reference
Open Settings with ⌘,. Each tab below is described in more detail in the guide page linked beside it.
General
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| License | The trial (how many of its 10 meetings the library has), Buy MacParsley…, and where to paste your license key. Once licensed: who it's licensed to, and Deactivate This Mac…. See The trial and buying MacParsley. |
| Appearance | Auto (follows System Settings → Appearance), Light or Dark, for every MacParsley window. |
| Library Location | Shows where your library folder is, with Show in Finder and Change…. Switching to another folder doesn't move your files. See The library. |
| Voice Prints → Keep per speaker | 4 to 128 (default 12): how many voice prints are kept for each person. See Transcripts and speakers. |
| Updates → Check for updates automatically | MacParsley looks for a newer version about once a day and offers to install it. Check Now (or MacParsley → Check for Updates…) looks straight away. Every update is signed, and MacParsley only installs one that is. |
Speakers
A list of everyone MacParsley knows by voice, with a search box and each person's voice prints. Customization… sets how sure a match must be to name someone automatically (default 80%), to suggest a name (60%), how readily similar voices are split into separate speakers, and whether speakers in Plaud, Pocket and Fireflies transcripts are separated on your Mac (on by default; it doesn't transcribe them again). See Transcripts and speakers.
Prompts
Browse, duplicate and write summary prompts; choose the fallback prompt; turn automatic choice off for a category or a prompt. See Summaries and mind maps and Writing your own prompts.
Summaries
Full walkthrough: The Summaries tab. To decide between models and services: Which should I use?.
How audio becomes a transcript, and how a transcript becomes a summary, all in one place.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Transcribe new audio automatically | Starts transcribing as soon as audio arrives. |
| Default Transcription Engine | The engine used for new audio. It lists only engines that are ready: downloaded ones, and Plaud, Pocket or Fireflies.ai once they're set up. |
| Configure Engines… | Download or remove transcription models, and set up Fireflies.ai. |
| Corrected Spellings | The fixes MacParsley applies to every new transcript. |
| Summarization Model | The model that writes summaries (and titles and short mind maps): Apple, LM Studio, Ollama, cloud providers, Plaud, Pocket, Fireflies.ai or note1.ai. The menu lists only models that are set up; its last line, Configure Additional Models, opens the Model Settings window, where every model and the audio services (Fireflies.ai, note1.ai, Pocket) are set up. Its own settings appear right below the menu. |
| Automatic features | Summarize automatically, write the short mind map, name new meetings, use a larger model for long recordings, let local models think. |
| Recognising the kind of recording | Whether detection may fall back to the default model. |
| Model Settings… | Set up every other model, such as cloud providers, Ollama and LM Studio. |
Plaud, Pocket, Fireflies.ai and note1.ai read the audio themselves, so choosing one sends recordings to it. See Which should I use? and AI models and privacy.
Folders and Tags
Manage your folders (edit, move, delete) and tags (rename, recolor, delete), each with a search box. Folders show their color, including the color they inherit from a parent. See The library.
Recording
Full walkthrough: The Recording tab.
| Section | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Meeting Detection | Notice when a meeting starts; show MacParsley in the menu bar; open MacParsley at login. |
| Meeting Apps Behavior | For Zoom, Teams, Webex and Slack: Record Automatically, Ask Before Recording, or Don't Record. |
| Third Party Integrations | Plaud, Pocket and Fireflies: a switch and Configure… for each (switching one on adds it to the Import window). See Plaud and Pocket and Fireflies.ai. Audio Storage is the cloud bucket where audio waits while Fireflies.ai downloads it. See Audio storage. |
| Recording | The folder and tags for recorded calls; the recording window; echo cancellation, and keeping the microphone on its own to check it. |
| Permissions | Microphone, System Audio Recording and Notifications, each with a green check or red cross. See Recording. |
MCP
The MCP server: on/off and port, with two buttons: API Keys… (make, copy, rename and revoke keys) and Connect App… (ready-to-copy setups for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, LM Studio, VS Code, Gemini CLI and others). Recent activity is listed below. See AI apps.
Maintenance
Archive Audio recompresses old recordings to save space (off by default), with a status of what's waiting and what's already archived, and an Archive Now button. See The library.