The settings screen
Open the settings with the gear icon in the Dock. The list of pages is on the left, and the items of the selected page are on the right. After “Overview”, the list is divided under the headings “Assistant”, “Features” and “General”. Below the name of each page, one line gives its current settings. When something on a page is turned on but doesn’t work yet, that line turns into a warning. A feature you have turned off is never a warning.
Overview
Section titled “Overview”The settings open on “Overview”.
- “Current setup” shows the speech recognition, the conversation model and the speech. Select one to open its page.
- “Needs preparing” lists what is turned on but doesn’t work yet. Each row holds the step that fixes it, such as downloading a model, the installation guide for the Agent CLI, or registering an API key.
- “Features you can add” lists semantic search, turn-taking (MaAI) and in-browser Whisper when they are off. The conversation works without them. “Prepare and turn on” downloads what the feature needs and turns it on.
You can also download a model in the row of the item that uses it: speech recognition and speech on the “Voice” page, and semantic search on the “Memory” page. The progress appears in the row of the button you pressed. Only one download runs at a time. Closing the settings does not stop it, and the progress is back in the same row when you open them again. When an update makes a voice model need preparing again, the button in the notice ASIST shows when it opens also starts the download. It opens “Voice” in the settings too, with the progress in the row of that model.
API costs
Section titled “API costs”“API costs” shows, day by day, what the conversation model, Gemini Live and Claude Code jobs cost. It is an estimate that ASIST calculates from your usage and each provider’s published prices (as of 2026-09-23), and it may not match what you are actually billed. Codex doesn’t report amounts, so it isn’t included. Claude Code jobs are counted only when they ran on an API key; a job on a Claude plan isn’t charged per token. Speech recognition and reading aloud run on this computer, so they cost nothing.
The last page, “About”, shows the version of ASIST, the update status, the licenses, the app log folder, and a list of the models and outside data ASIST uses. Each row of the list shows the provider, the license and a link to the provider’s page. Once a new version has finished downloading, “Restart now” switches to it. Updating on Windows is covered in Updating and uninstalling.