App Settings
App Settings
App settings is about Playto itself: its window, how it starts and closes, what it sends, and maintenance. Anything that changes how a game is read, translated or studied lives on the Settings page instead. Open it from TOOLS (top right) › App settings. Every row has a ? that explains it.
Search
The page opens with a search box (Ctrl+F jumps to it). Type a word such as theme or cache and only the matching rows stay visible.
If you search for something that moved to the Settings page in this update — for example GPU, streak or album — the search tells you which Settings tab it is on now instead of showing no results.
The four groups
Appearance
- UI Language — the language of Playto's own menus and buttons.
- Theme — Glass or Classic.
- App font — Inter, Space Grotesk or your system font.
- UI Scale — 50–200% if the app looks too small or too large on your screen.
- Always on top — keeps the Playto window above other apps, handy with windowed games.
Startup
- Start with Windows — launches Playto when your PC boots; the translation engine loads later, when you need it.
- Close button — what the window's × does: keep Playto in the tray, quit, or ask every time.
- Power saving — stops the translation engine after it has been idle for the time you pick (Off, or 1–60 min). Shown when translation runs on your PC.
Data
- Telemetry — turn Send usage data off at any time, and review what is shared. See the Privacy Policy.
- Settings export — saves your current settings to a JSON file (API keys and personal data are left out).
- Data folder — opens the folder where Playto keeps your data.
Maintenance
- Log detail — how much Playto writes to its log. Leave it on Warn (default) unless support asks for more.
- Translation cache — Clear deletes the stored translations.
- Setup / Tutorial — Redo runs the setup wizard or the guided tutorial again.
- All settings — Reset returns every app setting to its default. This can't be undone.
If you haven't turned on Playto Cloud, a Wordbook card below the groups offers it, so definitions appear the moment you save a word.
What moved to Settings
App settings used to be called Advanced and held many game and study options. Those are now on the Settings page:
- Pre-start confirmation → Settings › Capture.
- Album screenshots, Streak Banner and read-aloud voices → Settings › Learning.
- The translation engine's Backend and GPU Layers → Settings › Method › Local LLM (see Method).
Common reasons to open App settings
- Change the language of Playto's menus → Appearance › UI Language.
- Text in the app is too small → Appearance › UI Scale.
- Stop Playto from staying in the tray → Startup › Close button.
- Translations feel stale → Maintenance › Translation cache › Clear.
- Back to defaults after experimenting → Maintenance › All settings › Reset.
- The translation engine fails to start → that is on the Settings page now: Settings › Method › Local LLM › Backend.