Settings
Every page and switch in Veda's window, in order. Changes save as you make them — there's no Save button.
On this page
Open Veda's window from the menu bar (Mac) or system tray (Windows): click the sparkle, then Settings…. The sidebar has eight pages, and your Veda version at the bottom. Every change saves as you make it (on a Mac, a quiet "Saved" appears in the toolbar).
Home
How Veda is doing, at a glance.
- This week — time saved (an estimate), messages written, words and busiest app, compared with last week. See Weekly recap & Home.
- Today / This week / All time / Top app this month — rewrite counts.
- Plan strip — your plan and usage; Manage goes to the Plan page.
- Your writing — a heatmap of the last 18 weeks.
- Quick controls:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Veda is on | Off pauses Veda — the key does nothing until you switch it back on. |
| Trigger key | Which key Veda listens for. See The Veda key. |
| Sound effects | Tick, chime and error sounds. |
| Writing indicator | The sparkle by your cursor while Veda writes. |
| Learn my writing | Learning from your messages and edits. |
| Weekly recap | The Monday-morning notification with last week's numbers. |
Rewrite
Tap the trigger key and Veda writes it for you.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Trigger key | Holding it for a shortcut or a capital letter never triggers Veda, and the left-hand key keeps its normal job. |
| Sound effects | A tick when Veda hears the key, a chime when the text lands. Play previews them. |
| Writing indicator | A sparkle floats by your cursor while Veda writes. Click it to stop. |
| Pick the tone automatically | Casual in chat, professional in email — Veda reads the app and the thread. |
| Double-tap to dictate | Voice dictation. Double-tap, speak, tap once to finish. |
Below the switches, How it works sums up what a tap does in each situation.
Edit mode
Hold the trigger key to tell Veda what to change.
- A preview of the bar and how to open it.
- Your presets — up to six, each with a title (20 characters max) and an instruction; add, delete, or pick from suggestions. See Your own presets.
- How it works — the presets, the Read actions, preview and use it.
Writing style
About you, and what Veda has learned about how you write. See Writing style & learning.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| About you | Your role, who you write to, tone, reply length, emoji and languages — a few taps. |
| Anything else Veda should know? | Rules in your own words. Starts empty; never edited by Veda; outranks everything it has learned. |
| Samples / Your edits / Since last pass | What Veda has collected, and progress to the next learning pass. Learn now runs one. |
| Learn from my writing | Save the messages you edit before sending. Stays on your computer. |
| Pick the tone automatically | Choose between casual, friendly-professional and professional from the conversation. |
| Reply in their language | Drafted replies use the language the other person wrote in. |
| My language | What Translate translates into, and the language for replies when the switch above is off. |
| Re-learn after | New samples before the next learning pass: 5–100, default 20. |
| Never learn from these apps | Apps Veda never learns from. Starts with common password managers. |
| Learned profile | Veda's summary of your style. Edit, Reset, or Forget samples. |
Activity
Everything Veda has done, newest first. Filter by All, Replies or Problems, search, reveal the log file, or clear it.
AI & usage
How much you've used — or, on a licence, your own keys.
On the trial and Veda Pro: your plan, requests used, what's left, a chart of rewrites per day for the last 30 days, and where you use Veda this month (counted on your computer only).
On a Veda Licence:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Answering | Which provider answered last — so a silent fallback is never invisible. |
| This month / Requests | Paid spend and number of requests this month. |
| Monthly cap | The most Veda will spend on paid providers in a month ($2 by default). At the cap it uses free providers only. Reset zeroes the counter. |
| Order of preference | OpenAI, Groq and Gemini. The highest one with a working key answers; the rest are fallbacks. |
| API key / Model | Per provider. Get a key links to the provider. Test key checks it for free. |
| Thinking | OpenAI only: None (fastest), Low, Medium or High. |
Plan
Your plan, licence and billing. See Plans & billing.
- Your plan — trial days and rewrites left, or your Veda Pro / Licence details.
- Manage subscription (Veda Pro) — opens the Paddle customer portal.
- Remove from this Mac / PC (paid plans) — frees the key's slot and signs this computer out.
- Subscribe monthly / Yearly / Buy a licence — when you don't have an active paid plan.
- Already bought one? — paste a licence key and click Activate.
Privacy
What leaves your computer, and what never does. See Privacy.
- Where your words go — a diagram of the path your text takes on your plan.
- What's kept, and where — on your computer (with Show folder) and on Veda's server.
- Usage data — Share anonymous usage data, on by default: "Helps us find bugs and see which features work. Includes which app you used Veda in, the feature, timings and errors — never your text, voice or keys." Turn it off and nothing more is sent. Reports you send yourself include the text you choose to share. See Usage data.
- Forget everything learned — deletes saved samples and clears the learned profile. About you stays.
The menu-bar and tray panel
Click the sparkle in the menu bar or tray for a quick panel: status (Ready, Working, Paused or Needs permission), the Last action with Report last result under it (see Reporting a bad result), learning progress, your plan and usage, an update banner when there's a new version, and Settings…, Check for updates, Launch at login and Quit Veda. On Windows it also has Keep Veda visible on the taskbar.
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