1. Starting Sessions & Stopping Sessions
Start a Session from a Meeting Alert, Join meeting from your upcoming meeting card on dashboard, or the Start Cluely button from your dashboard. As of Sep 15, 2025 Cluely will no longer persist as a widget on your screen at all times and only show during Sessions.
When you start a session to record a meeting or get individual help, you will see the app below with a few key sections. We will walk through all of them in this guide.
Cluely Nav Bar
The nav bar contains five key elements:
Move Icon (6 dots): Drag to reposition Cluely
Cluely Logo: Click to open/close the dashboard
Audio Toggle: Turn voice assistance on/off
End Session Button: Blue button showing how long your session has been running
Close Cluely: X button to close Cluely. This will keep the session running, but hide the live insights card and widget entirely.
Cluely Live Insights
Below the top bar we have your Live Insights with the option to:
Customize Cluely Dropdown: Adjust your current Customize Cluely mode (in the example above, we have Cluely for Sales)
Show Transcript: Toggle between seeing the transcript and live insights.
Default Actions: Get instant help from “What should I say next”, “Follow up questions”, “Fact check”, “Who am I talking to”, and “Recap”.
Ask AI Chat Bar: Type anything and click CMD Enter or hit Submit to get an answer by default.
Smart Mode: Click the lightening icon to enable Smart Mode for coding assistance
Get Answer (CMD Shift Enter / CTRL Shift Enter): For undetectable answers during invisibility mode
Dynamic Insights
Real-time questions, keywords, and suggestions detected from the transcript will now appear below the main Live Insights card.
You can click any of these for answers or hit Tab to get an answer to the top/first Dynamic Action.
Stopping Sessions
Cluely will automatically end the session at the end of meetings from calendar alerts or mic change detection.
If you are using Cluely outside of a video conferencing call, you can hit the End Session button (blue button in the nav bar) to end the session.
2. Toggling Audio
Toggle Audio by clicking the waveform switch in between the Cluely Logo and the End Session button (blue button). You can click this Audio switch to turn Listen (audio capture) on and off.
Toggling Audio is great for pausing a meeting recording or completing async work without a meeting.
3. Ask AI
a. Tab for Dynamic Actions
Real-time questions, keywords, and suggestions detected from the transcript will now appear below the main Live Insights card. You can click any of these for answers or hit Tab to get an answer to the top/first Dynamic Action.
b. Cmd Enter for Chat
Type anything and click CMD Enter or hit Submit to get an answer by default.
You can enable Smart Mode by clicking the lightening icon to enable Smart Mode for coding assistance.
c. Cmd Shift Enter for Stealth Chat
For getting answers without text input, like assistance on coding problems or Excel sheets on your screen, you can click Get Answer or type CMD Shift Enter / CTRL Shift Enter) for undetectable answers during invisibility mode.
4. Switching Modes
At the top left of your Live Insights card, you will see a drop down with your Customize Cluely prompts. Adjust your current Customize Cluely mode (in the example above, we have Cluely for Sales).
Outside of an action session, you can change your active Customize Cluely by opening the desktop app, hovering over your profile icon, and clicking Customize Cluely. From there, you can select your active prompt.
5. Move & Hide Live Insights
The leftmost icon of the Cluely Navbar has a drag icon (6 dots). You can click and hold the Drag Icon to move Cluely anywhere on your screen or across multiple windows.
The rightmost X icon on the Cluely Navbar allows you to hide the Cluely Live Insights widget entirely. This is an alternative to CMD \ or CTRL \ (the default Hide key bind short cut).
6. Opening Dashboard
To open the dashboard, please click the Cluely Logo on the navbar. This will make the dashboard visible. If the dashboard was on another display, the dashboard will become visible on that display.