Enable a tool and open its page
Command bar, Explain, Windows, Mr. Usage, Notes, Scripts, Menu bar, System monitor, and App cleaner are optional tools and start off. Clipboard is separately opt-in and also starts off. Existing writing, dictation, shortcuts, and window preferences are preserved when adopting the toolkit.
Stay awake’s feature availability and its active session are separate. Its page can be available while the sleep setting remains off; a session never starts automatically at launch.
- Open Features, pinned at the bottom of the sidebar.
- Search by a tool’s name or description, then turn on its switch.
- Choose Open beside it or select the new sidebar item.
- Configure that tool’s models, shortcuts, or documents on its own page. Every setting of a tool is on its page; Features holds none.
Where each tool lives
Enabled features occupy the scrollable upper sidebar. Unless you rearranged it, they follow the order Writing, Explain, Dictation, Command bar, Shortcuts, Windows, Window switcher, Clipboard, Notes, Scripts, Mr. Usage, System monitor, Stay awake, Menu bar, and App cleaner. Right-click one to pin it to the top, move it up or down, or reset the order; hold Shift and drag a row to put it anywhere, dropping it among the pinned rows to pin it. History, Models, Features, and Settings remain in the lower navigation, so you can always return to configuration even after disabling a tool. Settings retains general, appearance, permissions, history, live configuration/reload, import/export, statistics, and update preferences.
- Writing: text rules and in-app Try. Explain: answer rules, notes, and the selection bubble. Dictation: audio rules, Record, and below them Recording: the microphone, muting Mac audio while recording, and a Cancel recording shortcut.
- Models → Local models: downloads and installed weights, with Memory (Unload idle models, Unload now) and Storage (the model folder) below the list. Models → Providers: connected local servers and cloud services. Models → Installed tools: Claude Code, supported Codex, and OpenCode text models.
- Windows: snapping, the layout picker, sizes, and layout shortcuts. Shortcuts → Application and Other: app and system-action bindings, with a Windows segment for layouts while Windows is off.
- Window switcher: its shortcut and any setup issue. Clipboard: the copied text, its search, and the Quick paste shortcut. History: Frog’s own saved writing results, answers, and dictation.
- Command bar: its global shortcut and Open button. Mr. Usage: plan limits, token activity, and the menu-bar design.
- Notes and Scripts: separate pages backed by the private local document store.
- Stay awake: Session and Access controls. App cleaner: installed apps, the review of their leftover files, and Recently moved.
- Menu bar: divider-based hiding and reveal controls. System monitor: a live CPU and GPU graph, disk, power, and the settings of its menu-bar item. Settings → Statistics: local recording, rule, and tool totals.
Organize menu-bar icons
Menu bar is off by default. Quit an existing Hidden Bar instance yourself before enabling Frog’s organizer; Frog detects it without changing or terminating it, and starts its organizer once Hidden Bar has quit. Command-drag icons to the left of Frog’s divider, then click the arrow to reveal or collapse that section. Right-click the arrow or click a divider to open its settings.
Settings include auto-hide with a configurable delay, start collapsed, optional hover reveal, and an optional hotkey with no default binding. The optional permanently hidden section stays collapsed during ordinary reveal; Reveal all & arrange temporarily opens both sections and pauses auto-hide. Disabling the feature removes Frog’s helpers and shortcut.
The organizer uses public menu-bar spacing and requires neither Accessibility nor Screen Recording. macOS 27 and later are unsupported for this feature: Frog installs no organizer helpers there. It has no second-row overflow panel and cannot guarantee access to icons obscured by a notch. Icon positions stay on each Mac.
Review local activity in Settings
Settings → Statistics shows all-time, 7-day, and 30-day recording counts, microphone time, dictated words, weighted words per minute, rule breakdowns, and tool counts. Collection is enabled by default for these device-local aggregates. Pause it to retain totals without adding new activity, or Reset to clear counters while keeping the collection switch.
Statistics stores no transcripts, rule names, queries, provider identities, or individual event logs and makes no network requests. It is separate from optional result history and Mr. Usage. Counters begin with this implementation; old history is not backfilled. The data and collection switch are not included in portable configuration.
Disabling stops the feature’s work
Return to Features and turn off a tool. Its page and commands disappear, its registered shortcuts are removed, and its owned panels, tasks, polling, or observers stop as applicable. If you are viewing the disabled page, navigation returns to Features.
For example, disabling Window switcher removes its keyboard interception and restores the native shortcut; disabling Shortcuts unregisters application and system bindings, and window layouts unless Windows is on; disabling Dictation cancels recording; disabling Scripts cancels its owned process group. Mr. Usage collects while enabled even with its dashboard closed; disabling it or quitting Frog removes its separate menu-bar item and stops collection.
Disabling Stay awake first restores sleep for a Frog-owned session. If restoration fails, the app reports the error and keeps the feature enabled so you can resolve access and retry.
Re-enable without rebuilding your setup
Feature disablement preserves saved rules, model choices, shortcut assignments, and toolkit documents. Re-enable the tool in Features to use those settings again. It does not uninstall models or delete notes, the files notes refer to, or saved script text.
Temporary data has its own lifetime. Disabling Clipboard clears its memory-only entries; enabling it again starts with new copies. A configuration export includes feature choices and settings, but excludes private toolkit documents, clipboard contents, usage records, history, credentials, and downloaded weights.