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Getting started
The day-zero path. Install the app, paste your license, walk through the permission prompts, and finish your first dictation and first meeting. If something blocks the next step, every page links to the troubleshooting flow that fixes it.
Day zero
Get started with Dettivo
Install the app, activate your license, grant Microphone, Accessibility, and Input Monitoring, then hold the Push-to-Talk hotkey and speak. Dettivo types into whatever app has focus.
Install
Install Dettivo
Download the latest signed and notarized build, drag Dettivo.app into /Applications, launch it, and let onboarding walk you through license + permissions. Dettivo requires macOS 14 Sonoma or newer on an Apple Silicon Mac.
Local-onlyPermissions
The five permissions Dettivo can ask for
Microphone, Accessibility, Input Monitoring, Screen & System Audio Recording, and Calendar. Dettivo asks only for what the feature at hand needs. Every one is reversible from System Settings.
Requires permission
- Dictation — Hotkeys, modes, direct insertion, dictionary, Quick Access, Quick Note.
- Meetings — Bot-free capture, speaker labels, meeting analysis, recap automation, Meeting Mirror.
- Automation — Dictation macros, app + shell allowlists, recap email automation, weekly digest.
- Developers — Same contract everywhere. Bundled CLI, loopback REST adapter, stdio MCP server.
- Privacy + security — Local-first defaults, BYOK providers, telemetry policy, permissions, retention.
- Account + license — Activation, device management, secure updates, recovery, refunds.
- Troubleshooting — Hotkeys, insertion, meeting audio, MCP connect, REST 401, license activation.