Settings
Desktop Settings. Account, billing, device, capture, privacy, captured apps, local model, integrations, and app behaviour explained.
Last updated: 22 May 2026
Overview
Settings (/settings) is organised into nine sections grouped under three sidebar headings: you, capture, and system. Changes apply according to each section's rules; some require an app restart before they take effect.
you
Account
Subscription status, plan details, referral code, and sign-out.
Billing
Subscription and payment management. Opens the web portal for invoice history and plan changes.
Device
The current device's registration state and one-device limit handling. Use this section to resolve a device-conflict from a previous machine.
capture
Capture
Configure which monitors participate in capture and which audio devices are recorded. Adjusting monitors or audio devices typically requires a restart so the capture pipeline can reinitialise cleanly.
Privacy
Built-in protections and exclusion categories that limit what Overshow retains or processes (finance, health, password managers, not-suitable-for-work content, private browser windows, remote-desktop surfaces, protected domains, and sensitive system apps). Pause and resume controls live here.
Captured apps
The user-managed allow-list for apps, backed by the encrypted local database. App saves hot-reload the running capture policy. Built-in deny rules for sensitive apps, private browser windows, and protected domains always take precedence over user choices.
Website exclusions
Category toggles for finance, health, not-suitable-for-work content, and always-on password managers, plus a custom domain exclusion list. Category and custom domain exclusion changes apply after save.
system
Local model
Read-only runtime state for the on-device language model, the embedding worker, and other local AI surfaces. The on-device language model gates chat and intelligence features; embeddings, transcription, voice activity detection, and speaker labelling can still use the local helper when chat is disabled.
Integrations
Provider connections for calendar (Google and Microsoft 365) and other external surfaces. Meeting linking depends on this.
App
General behaviour: launch at login, global shortcut configuration, and the data directory path for local databases, logs, and control files. Power users go here to relocate or inspect storage.
After changing Capture
If capture behaves oddly after changing devices, quit Overshow fully and reopen so services restart with the new configuration.