Settings and personalisation

Make Lyra fit the way you write: where it works, how it spells, and which words it should leave alone.

Finding the settings

Click the Lyra icon in your menu bar. The panel shows your stats (rewrites, characters fixed, time saved) and Quick controls. The gear icon opens the full Lyra Settings window; the power icon quits Lyra.

Pause Lyra

Under Quick controls, choose Pause Lyra to stop it everywhere, or Pause Lyra in the app or website you're using to stop it only there. Pick how long:

For 1 hour
For 5 hours
For 24 hours
Until I turn it back on

Switch it back to Active whenever you like.

Turn Lyra off in one app or website

Pause Lyra in that app or site with Until I turn it back on. It's then listed under Settings → Apps & rules, where Remove switches Lyra back on there.

Some apps are off from the start, such as terminals and code editors. See which ones.

British, American, Indian or Australian English

In Settings → General → My writing style, choose British, American, Indian or Australian English. Automatic follows your Mac's region: the UK, Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa get British spelling, everywhere else American.

Personal dictionary

Settings → Personal dictionary holds words Lyra will never “correct”: your name, colleagues' names, product names, jargon, slang you use on purpose. The list is kept on your Mac and never sent to the cloud.

Tone profiles

With Lyra Cloud, Tone profiles shows how Lyra reads the way you write to each person, for example casual with a friend on WhatsApp and more formal with a client in Outlook, and lets you correct it. How tone profiles work, and what they send.

Lyra Cloud on or off

If you subscribe to Lyra Cloud, one switch in Settings → General turns it on or off. Off means everything runs on your Mac again, straight away. About Lyra Cloud.

Updates

Lyra updates itself. With Automatically install updates on, a new version installs the next time Lyra quits. To check now, open Settings → Updates → Check for updates. When an update is waiting, Lyra shows Relaunch to update. See what changed in the release notes.

Usage counts

Share anonymous usage counts in Settings sends counts of which features get used, never your text. Switch it off and nothing is sent. What's in them.