The full Settings tour — every tab, every toggle

Settings has six tabs. This is a guided walk through all of them with the toggles that actually change behavior, the ones that are mostly cosmetic, and the ones that solve specific problems people hit. Read it once and you'll know where to go for anything later.

• 1. Menu
• 2. Hotkey
• 3. Profiles
• 4. Advanced
• 5. Analytics
• 6. About

1. Menu

The first tab is the visual editor for your wedges. The radial preview on the left mirrors the live menu; the slot list on the right is where you add, reorder, and configure wedges.

What you can put in a wedge:

• App — the most common case. Pick from installed apps; double-clicking the wedge in the preview opens a quick-add bar.
• Sub-menu — turns the wedge into a category that nests another ring of wedges underneath. Best for grouping by mood (work, comms, design) once your top ring is full.
• Apple Shortcut — runs any macOS Shortcut by name. Pro feature; the deep dive lives on the Apple Shortcuts blog post.
• Custom action — paste text, open a URL, run an AppleScript, or trigger a deep-link.
• Clipboard — fans out the last 8 clipboard entries for one-flick paste. Covered in the clipboard guide.
• Emoji picker — opens a six-category emoji ring. Covered in the emoji guide.

Right-pane sections in the Menu tab:

• Appearance — Theme picker (Glass, Light, Dark, Custom Pro accent). See the Customization guide.
• Window Expansion — Fan out multi-window apps; show live thumbnails. See the Window Preview guide.
• Menu Bar — Show menu bar icon, Launch at Login. The menu bar icon is your fallback access — it'll re-appear automatically if Swik fails to register a hotkey at launch, so you're never locked out.

2. Hotkey

This tab decides how the menu opens.

• Global Hotkey — record any key combination. Lonely keys (F19, Right Option, a remapped Caps Lock) work better than Cmd-modified combos because they don't collide with app shortcuts.
• Trigger Mode — Hold or Toggle. Strict wedge selection (Pro) is the polish layer for Toggle. See the Trigger Mode guide.
• Additional Triggers (Pro) — bind a mouse button (middle click, scroll wheel, macro buttons) as an additional trigger. Both can coexist with the keyboard hotkey.

If you're new: try a hotkey first, then add a mouse trigger once you've got Pro and your hand wants both.

3. Profiles

Profiles let you have multiple menus that swap automatically based on context. Each profile has its own wedge layout. Triggers can include:

• Wi-Fi network — your office menu vs your home menu, switched on the Wi-Fi name.
• Display configuration — laptop alone vs docked at a desk with an external monitor.
• Time of day — work hours vs evening.

Profiles are evaluated by a 60-second timer plus Wi-Fi events plus a 3-second delay after wake-from-sleep, so the swap happens within a few seconds of any context change. The full deep-dive lives in the context profiles blog post.

4. Advanced

The longest tab. Most users only need to glance at Interaction Presets at the top. The rest of this tab is for fine-tuning, accessibility, and infrequent maintenance.

5. Analytics

A local-only stats view of your own usage — total launches, top wedges, frecency-influenced ranking. Nothing is sent off-device. Useful for one purpose: deciding whether a wedge has earned its slot. If a wedge is at position 3 but you've launched it twice in two months, drag it into a sub-menu and promote something you actually use.

6. About

Version, build, license status (Free or Pro), and the update channel selector. The "Check for Updates" button uses Sparkle to fetch the latest stable build. Beta channel is opt-in.

This is also where you'll find the link to the privacy policy and the support email — Swik is unsandboxed and runs without any network calls outside the update check, but the privacy doc spells out what that means in detail.

Cheat sheet — the toggles people actually change