Allow Flula’s microphone and Accessibility.

Microphone: so Flula can hear you

Flula listens only while you dictate. Each recording is deleted from your Mac once it’s written or cancelled; one that couldn’t be sent waits up to 10 minutes, so you can send it again.

Setup asks first: click Allow microphone, then Allow in the macOS prompt. Clicked Don’t Allow? Open System Settings › Privacy & Security › Microphone and turn on Flula.

Accessibility: so your words land where you type

With Accessibility, Flula pastes your words into the app you’re typing in, reads the text you selected when you edit it by voice, and notices right Option, the key your Flula shortcut uses. With Use the text around the cursor on, it also reads a little of the text beside the cursor, so capitals and names fit. Flula watches your keys only for its own shortcut.

Setup opens System Settings for you: in Privacy & Security › Accessibility, turn on Flula, and Flula comes back to the front. Without Accessibility, Flula copies your words instead and says Copied, not pasted, so you can paste them yourself.

Check both in Flula

Flula’s Settings › Privacy lists both permissions and whether each is allowed. When one isn’t, the button next to it helps you turn it on.

The switch is on, but Flula says it isn’t

1. 01
   Quit FlulaClick Flula in the menu bar, then Quit Flula.
2. 02
   Open the copy in ApplicationsOpen Flula from your Applications folder, the copy you installed, and look at Settings › Privacy again.
3. 03
   Keep one copyRun one Flula at a time. If there’s another copy on your Mac, say in Downloads or on the disk image you installed from, quit it, eject the disk image and move the extra copy to the Trash. Then open the one in Applications.