# Settings Valet

> A free Mac utility from Epiphani Studios. It reads the two lists macOS keeps of what can control the Mac (Privacy & Security > Accessibility) and what starts by itself (General > Login Items & Extensions: Open at Login and Allow in the Background), then marks each leftover in red and each keeper in green on the live System Settings screen. The person makes every change; Settings Valet opens the page, selects the row, draws the mark and explains it in plain English.

## What it does
- Accessibility: checks every row against the disk. Rows for installed programs get Keep; rows pointing at something gone get Remove, with the checked path under "How I know". Same-named rows are told apart by where they point and, with the optional Screen Recording permission, by the icon System Settings draws (a leftover shows the blank document icon).
- Login Items & Extensions: marks Open at Login and background items whose app is gone, and explains every remaining background job in one sentence. Start-up jobs that point at a missing program are listed on the first page.
- Move-In: after a move to a new Mac, checks Settings Valet's own permissions and every app permission and sign-in on the move list (a short list file in its Application Support folder), marking each one Allowed, Opened (waiting for Confirm) or to do, with a Fix button.
- Links: settingsvalet://accessibility, settingsvalet://login-items and settingsvalet://move-in open those pages. Hush Performance and Figaro open it this way.

## How it works
- Permissions: Full Disk Access (to read the protected lists), Accessibility (to open the page, select the row and draw marks), Screen Recording (optional; a picture of the System Settings window only, kept on the Mac).
- Explanations: built-in rules, then Apple's on-device model; for anything left, it shows the exact names and asks before sending them to the Epiphani explanation service.
- Usage counts are kept in a local file the person can read and share for support.
- Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple; updates from updates.belstone.com, checked for the same signature.

## Requirements and price
- macOS 26 or later on Apple silicon. Free.

## Links
- Home: https://settingsvalet.com/
- Download: https://settingsvalet.com/download
- Publisher: Epiphani Studios, https://epiphani.com/