Settings
The Settings window is where you configure Minbar Caption — from keyboard shortcuts and themes to API keys and backups.
Open Settings using the gear icon in the title bar. These preferences apply across projects.
API keys
The API Keys panel groups the credentials used by the app:
- AI key — the provider API key, text endpoint, model, and reasoning effort used by the AI translation assistants, transcript correction, subtitle rearrangement, and reference detection. These tools may incur charges from your chosen provider; they are separate from audio segmentation.
- Stock media — the Pexels and Pixabay API keys used to search stock media in the Video editor.
- Transcription - your own Groq or ElevenLabs API key for speech recognition and word timestamps.
Transcription and text AI use separate settings and may incur provider charges. See Transcription to choose a speech provider.
Shortcuts
Every keyboard shortcut can be customized. They are grouped into Video Preview, Subtitles Editor, Pre-defined Subtitles, and Timeline.
Theme
Choose between dark, light, and sepia themes, adjust their intensity, and optionally use a dimmed backdrop behind dialogs.
Notifications
Enable desktop notifications when a video export, AI segmentation, or AI trimming finishes.
Quran.com integration
Connect your Quran.com account to bookmark verses, save private reflections, and publish to QuranReflect.
Default values
Set the values used when a field is left empty — the default export file name format and the project categories available when creating a project. This panel also controls video thumbnails in the timeline.
Backup
Export your projects into a JSON backup. This saves their data and media paths, but does not copy
audio, video, images, or application preferences. Keep the referenced files too, or export
individual projects as .qc packages to include their media.
Importing a backup adds missing projects; existing IDs are skipped rather than overwritten, and existing items are not removed. Use Open projects folder to find the local project files.
Support, contact & about
The remaining panels let you support the project (PayPal, Ko-fi, or cryptocurrency wallets), contact the developer or join the Discord, and view the app version.
